Halloween ~ 2010

The Professor...Firefighter

Velcro Boy...dinosaur

Doodlebug...The cutest candy corn you ever saw :)

 I made each of them a bag for trick or treating.  There are ghosts on the ones on either end.

The one in the middle has a bat on the front.

Halloween is done!

As much fun as we had, I'm glad Halloween's over.  Now on to fall :)  I thought I would post some pictures of the last of the Halloween crafts.

Velcro Boy's Ghost: (He didn't want it to have eyes :) )

The Professor's Ghost:

The Professor's bats:

Velcro Boy's Spiders: (yes, I KNOW spiders have more than 4 legs :) )

Our display:

Doodlebug (teddy bear)

Velcro Boy (UPS driver):

The Professor (FedEx driver):

All together:

The decorations have now all been taken down.  Now to make fall decorations!

Halloween Crafts

I've been meaning to post some pictures of the Halloween crafts we've been doing.  Finally, here they are:

I got this craft at this site.  It's a great resource for all kinds of crafts.

This is Doodlebug's version:

Velcro Boy's:

And The Professor's:

Then the little kids made paper plate jack-o-lanterns.  I helped Doodlebug with his.

Velcro Boy's

Doodlebug's

We made something called a Graveyard Treat, but due to a lack of decorations (oops!), it turned out more like a pumpkin patch!

On the inside:

Graveyard Treat

Crust:

2 3/4 cups crushed Oreo cookies (I remove the cream first)

1/4 c sugar

1/2 cup butter, melted

combine all ingredients in the bottom of a 13x9 pan (sprayed with non-stick cooking spray).  Press firmly to bottom and refrigerate.

1st layer:

8 oz cream cheese, softened

6 oz Cool-Whip

1/4 c sugar

Beat sugar and cream cheese until smooth.  Stir in Cool-Whip.  Spread over the crust.

2nd layer:

2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup cold water

ice cubes

8 serving size package orange Jello

Stir boiling water into the Jello until dissolved.  Mix cold water and ice cubes to make 1 1/2 cups.  Stir into Jello.  Gently pour onto cream cheese layer.  Refrigerate until firm.

Spread 6 more oz Cool Whip on top.  Sprinkle with more crushed Oreos.  Decorate as desired.  I usually use candy corn and the pumpkins.  The original picture shows cookies decorated to look like headstones.

This is delicious and goes quite quickly.

Some decorations from years past:

I made this *years* ago.

The Professor and Velcro Boy made these last year:

 

Then they made tissue paper jack-o-lanterns.

The Professor's

Velcro Boy's:

Egg carton Spiders:

This was a 2 day project.

The Professor's:

Velcro Boy's:

And the mess they made painting

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 Spiders on the move!

The Professor and Velcro Boy in their Halloween shirts.  I didn't make the one The Professor's wearing :)

They also decorated pumpkins:

The Professor's

Velcro Boy's:

 

 

And...Doodlebug's (obviously I helped, but he pointed to where he wanted the stickers):

 

Thanks to all who stuck with this post.  I know it was long, but we had a lot of fun making all these things!