31 Days of Halloween with kids! Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets - Day 8

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Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets

Look at these adorable finger puppets from Craft Jr. These are so cute for the younger kids. 

 You can get step by step with pictures for the Halloween Kids Easy Finger Puppets HERE at Craft Jr.

You can get step by step with pictures for the More Easy Halloween Finger Puppets HERE at Craft Jr.

You can get step by step with pictures for the Fall Kids Finger Puppets HERE at Craft Jr.

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Recycled Umbrella Chandelier - Day 7

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CRAFT # 7

Recycled Umbrella Chandelier

Recycle an old umbrella as a haunting light fixture.  Remove the fabric covering; stretch spider webbing over the ribs. Decorate with plastic spiders and battery-operated lanterns attached to the ribs with bent wire or S hooks. Tie rope around the handle, and hang from the ceiling with a plant hook or cup hook. 
   

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Pumpkins! - Day 6

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CRAFT # 6

PUMPKINS!  
Want to share the anatomy of a pumpkin with your kids?  Found this perfect description of pumpkin anatomy HERE from Pumpkin Nook. 

Here are pictures that give you different ideas on what to do with Pumpkins and Gourds.  We try and come up with different ways to display our pumpkins every year.  

 Pumpkin Candy Dish

 Funny People Pumpkins

 Pumpkin Punch Bowl

 Talking Pumpkin using a baby monitor

 Pumpkin Owl

 Pumpkin Candy Dish

 Family of Pumpkin Owls

 Beverage Holder

 Pumpkin and Gourd Family

 Floral Basket

 Too cute...we are doing this one.  We have dollar store plastic mice that we are using.

 This we did last year, loved it!!!

Floral Vases

 Owls made from Seeds and Nuts

 Baby Birds

 Using Felt, Card stock ribbon etc

 Cut Mums and stick in pumpkin...love these for Thanksgiving!

 Fruity Pumpkin

 Glitter & Sequin Pumpkin

 Jack O' Lantern

 Floral arrangement using kale and flowers in birdbath

 Lacy Pumpkins!

 How cute is this one...Car Pumpkins

 Use battery operated led lights to make these pathway pumpkins

 Pumpkin Tree using willow branches.

 Spider Pumpkin - using construction paper and wire

 

all these pictures and ideas are from Martha Stewart and Better Homes and Gardens.   We will probably add more ideas from other sites so you may want to check again!

Read for the Record!

Help Share 100,000 Books
With Pre-schoolers On October 7

When you read The Snowy Day at We Give Books before October 7, we’ll share another print copy of this classic story with a child so that he or she can take part in a local Read for the Record celebration on October 7. 

 http://www.wegivebooks.org/pf/rftr/index.html

 

Get Ready to Set a Record
This Thursday!

Last year, more than 2.1 million people took part in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign.
Please join us later this week—Thursday, October 7—as we try to create a new World Record for the most people reading the same book on the same day.
In the process, we aim to raise awareness about the important role that reading has in shaping a child’s life. We also want to showcase Jumpstart’s efforts to make sure every child has a chance to succeed in classrooms every day.

Here’s what you can do today to get ready for this big day:

Read right now: Read the official book of Jumpstart’s 2010 Read for the Record Campaign—Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day—right now, online for free.
Each time you read The Snowy Day at We Give Books prior to October 7, we’ll share another print copy of this classic story with a child so that he or she can take part in a local Read for the Record celebration.
Read today and you’ll be automatically registered as a new member of We Give Books. You’ll be all set to help break the record by reading again on October 7, and you’ll get immediate access to our growing digital library of new and classic children’s books, always available—anytime, anywhere—for free.
Spread the word: Take a moment to share the Read for the Record campaign with people you know—email them a link to this page. You can also spread the word via Facebook and Twitter.

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Decorated Artificial Pumpkins - Day 5

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CRAFT # 5

Decorated Artificial Pumpkins 

 We used the artificial carvable pumpkins that you can buy at your local craft store to make the 3 pumpkins above.

Apple Picking & Apple Betty Day with kids!

Today is Apple Betty Day!  To download and save our favorite Apple Betty recipe click HERE.  We have planned to take the kids Apple Picking and also having this yummy dessert as their snack!  There are actually almost a dozen long Apple themed holidays celebrated throughout the year, including National Apple Month!  Originally founded in 1904 as National Apple Week, it was expanded in 1996 to a three-month promotional window from September through November.  Here are a list of other apple days you might want to know:

 Apple Holidays At-A-Glance

    * January 1: Apple Gifting Day *

    * May 13: National Apple Pie Day *

    * June 6: National Applesauce Cake Day *

    * July 5: National Apple Turnover Day *

    * September 17: National Apple Dumpling Day *

    * September 30: National Hot Mulled Cider Day *

    * October 5: National Apple Betty Day *

    * October 21: Caramel Apple Day *

    * October 31: National Candy Apple Day *

    * December 1: Eat A Red Apple Day *

    * December 3: National Apple Pie Day *

We will come back to this blog post and post our pictures!  Here are some educational tips on Apples:

Picking tips:

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Spooky Terrariums - Day 4

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Spooky Terrariums


Bring empty pickle, jelly, and other glass jars back from the dead by turning them into haunting terrariums.  Have the kids go around collecting leaves, sticks, rocks etc from the yard.  You can pick up fake mice, rats, bats, crows, spiders, bugs etc from your local craft store or the dollar store and insert them into the jar.  The kids love making these!

 

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Acorn Jack O Lantern's - Day 3

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CRAFT # 3

Today we collected lots and lots of Acorns !   So now we can paint them and make Acorn Pumpkins:

Acorn Jack O Lantern's

Materials

• Acorns

• Orange acrylic paint
• Brown acrylic paint
• Black permanent marker

Instructions

1.  Remove the caps from a handful of acorns.

2.  Coat each one with orange acrylic paint, adding a bit of brown to the acorn's point for a stem.

3.  Let the paints dry, then add a jack-o'-lantern face with a black permanent marker.

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Glue Ghosts - Day 2

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CRAFT # 2



This Halloween Craft is super easy and adorable.  These can be hung all around the house:

Glue Ghosts:

Materials

• Glue
• String or yarn
• Waxed paper
• Craft stick or plastic spoon
• Googly eyes
• Construction paper

Instructions
1. For each one, lay a length of thick string or yarn on a piece of waxed paper in a basic ghost shape, leaving the bottom open.

2.  Carefully fill the area inside the string with glue, then smooth the glue with a craft stick or the back of a plastic spoon. Add googly eyes and a construction paper mouth. Let the glue dry overnight.

3.  Remove the ghost from the waxed paper and trim any excess glue from the outline.
4.  Use a pushpin to poke a hole at the top and thread through a string for hanging.
 

31 Days of Halloween with kids! Halloween Spirit Jugs - Day 1

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CRAFT PROJECT #1

Yeah!!! The Fall is here and the seasons are changing, leaves are beginning to fall and the countdown to Halloween has begun. Here at Fun and Facts for Kids we are going to be decorating every day inside and out. We will be doing small crafts daily to celebrate the season. We love the fall and we love to celebrate Halloween.  

So in the spirit of Fun and Facts with Kids we will find and post fun easy crafts the kids can do.  Some of these crafts may also suit the adults as we love to craft as much as the kids, as well as crafts that are just plain fun.  So join us for our 31 days of Halloween Celebration! 

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Halloween Spirit Jugs

Materials

• Clean plastic gallon milk jugs
• Black permanent marker
• Craft knife
• String of 50 clear low-wattage holiday lights

 Instructions

1.  Draw ghost eyes and mouths on the jugs. Tip: Leave the caps on while you do this, so the jugs don't dent.

2.  Use the craft knife to cut a half-dollar-size hole in the back of each jug (a parent's job).

3.  Arrange the ghosts near each other and string the lights between them, stuffing several bulbs into each of the jugs.