On Fridays, Curt brings Mila and Lukie to our home for the morning. He goes upstairs and works and Craig and I have fun with the kids. This week, we made Halloween things and planned out the Halloween party we are going to have next Friday. (With costumes!)
I got out my cookie cutters because they want to make cookies for the party, and after selecting some that looked Halloween-ish (I didn't have many so some of them are a stretch...)
... we got out the Play-doh and experimented to see what would work. My favorite? The nutcracker soldier that Lukie was sure was Frankenstein. The hat it wore did make it look like the monsters head! (I got onto Amazon and have a set of real Halloween cookie cutters coming tomorrow.)
To be sure that Mom and Dad knew that there was to be a party, we made invitations that the kids could take home and hang on their fridge.
We also had a snack - Play-doh cookies and invitation-making sure can burn a lot of energy.
We then did some weaving on laminated spiders
that I got from Oriental Traders.
And finally we made a banner that they could take home and hang on their fireplace,It turned out really well and was very easy to make. (Unlike the spiders; Craig and I had to do all the weaving.)Naturally we hung it on our fireplace so they could see how it would look.
The previous week I had sewn them ghost puppets that they decorated with fabric markers. Lukie had Ian's with him and wanted to spend time scaring Boompa again (and again and again and... Boompa is VERY patient!)Vanessa has dubbed this Groompa Preschool and it really is just about as much fun as Groompa Camp is! I can't wait for next Friday.
