With Halloween just around the corner, pumpkins are on the mind. We’re going to try this fun recipe for Pumpkin Pie Playdough!

(picture credit: Pepper Paints)

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They had fun.  The cleanup was easy.  And my dining room now smells very sweet!

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It’s October so let’s get ready for Halloween! For families that choose not to participate in Halloween this craft can still be useful, simply leave out the red fangs and change up the color scheme.

1. Gather your materials. You will need black, red and orange construction paper, glue, some crayons, scissors and googly eyes.
2. Start by having your child draw a bunch of fun nighttime things on the orange paper, stars, a moon, even an owl would be great! You can help if your little one is still young or skip it like we did. I added the stars, etc… after we were done just for y’all.
3. Trace your child’s hands on black paper.
4. Have your child color the hands with a white crayon.
5. While they are coloring, draw a bat head. Don’t worry about making mistakes we’ll use the opposite side and cut out small red fangs.
6. Cut the head and hands out.
7. Put two globs of glue on your orange paper for the hands.
8. Pop the hands on, don’t worry about what sides are up, one of ours is upside down , but make sure they meet in the middle .
9. Add the head.
10. Glue on the fangs. I usually add the glue then help direct him where to put them, saying things like " Can you point the triangle down,” but if I wasn’t blogging it I wouldn’t be so concerned with how it “looks.”  A good tip is to talk about what you are adding saying "Fangs are big teeth, where should the bat’s teeth go?”
11. Add the eyes! If your child is still eating things like mine did forever, you can draw eyes on with a white crayon instead.

All done! A fun Halloween, or Nocturnal Animal, craft you can enjoy making with your little one.

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We love dressing up for Halloween so I made this little dog and some cute costumes. I'm sure this will be a hit at any Halloween party. Click any of the images to print, cut and dress-up this cute doggie. Happy Halloween!

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Shrinky Dinks makes inkjet paper you can print photos and other personalized designs on.

Crafty Cathe Holden made the cutest flower necklace and provides a detailed tutorial.

Planet June made these awesome rings.

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Have fun shrinking!

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It's so simple and easy and will lend hours of fun for your kiddos. I also love how you can incorporate art history lessons in a fun and practical way.  I think children grasp concepts much more easily when introduced in a fun way.  The possibilites are endless with this project!

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1. Gather your materials. You will need a rectangular box, some craft paper, markers, tape, scissors , envelopes, stickers and a piece of white paper.
2. Start by cutting off one end of the box.
3. Cut a slot ( make it wider than I did if you don't want to be saying "Try it the other way, turn it around" 300 times between frustrated 2 year old almost tantrums)
4. Wrap the box like a present in the craft paper.
5. Cut the paper where the slot it and tape it on the inside.
6. Time to color, let your child go nuts. I just let him go for it.
7. Make a sign (if your child can do this, have them do it!)
8. Tape it on.
9. Time to make the mail- I used blank envelopes. Have your child add addresses. If they can write letters, do that too. No matter what stage they are at have them add the address. If it's scribbles, cool. If it's a full address, that's great.
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1. Gather your materials. You will need a piece of paper towel, some red, white and blue paper, a star paper punch, scissors, glue and contact paper.



2. Start by cutting your blue paper into a square that takes up almost a quarter of the upper left corner of your paper towel.
3. Cut your red paper into stripes, some long, some short.



4. Punch stars out of your white paper
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7. Add glue for the stripes and start adding them.



8. Let dry ( do not skip this step, you'll get squished glue marks like me, learn from my oops).
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