Fall break, what to do, that was the question, so we decided to do Halloween rotations with neighborhood friends.  This afternoon we got the girls together to do some fun Halloween rotations (okay we also let a cute little guy, Ethan tag along) Basically what we did was 30 minute craft or snack time at four different houses.  It was really fun and gave the girls stuff to do, since school has started they haven’t got to get together and really play so this was their chance.  

It all started off at Amy’s house with pumpkin painting.  She got really cute, big, wood pumpkins at Michaels and had the kids paint, glitter, and sticker their pumpkins.  They turned out really cute and they had so much fun.  

Next they used the buddy system to walk over to my house for some ghostly fun.  We got black construction paper and I painted their feet and they stepped onto the black paper to make ghosts.  Then they painted a black face on their ghosts.  They turned out very cute.  Then we also did the very easy and  famouse Halloween tissure paper ghost with the Tootsie pops.  They really loved the ghostly fun.

Then they booked it over to Lisa’s house (across the street) for story time and snack making.  She made a delicious Halloween snack that she let them put together.  Here is the recipe if you are looking for a really easy and quick Halloween snack to make with your kidos for fall.

Halloween Snack Mix

6 cups caramel corn
2 cups salted cashews
1 1/2 cups candy corn
1/3 cup raisins
In a large bowl, combine all ingredients; mix well.  Yield:  about 2 quarts.

Finally, it was onto Jackie’s house for a batty good time.  They made these really neat flying bats.  They turned out so cute.  You cute out a bat and then use some fun glittery ribbon type material to put around the middle and then put eyes and finally attach some fishing sting to it so that is looks like it is flying though the air on it’s own.  Spooky.  

The kids had so much fun we just all had to run to the park to get any extra energy they might have had out.  It was our lucky day because the sprinklers were on at the park and the kids had a blast being kids running though the sprinklers getting way wet and way dirty.  This was a great afternoon filled with exciting Halloween activities.