What to do with all of that Halloween candy...

I don't know about your family, but we have a ton of candy in our house. Here are some cute ideas to put it all to good use.

Make sculptures with it like they did at flipflops and applesauce. She also suggested keeping some for gingerbread houses at Christmas time.

Cut up all of the candy bars and have a sundae party with it like they did at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Look at all of these ideas at scrumdilly-do

What ideas do you have??

More pumpkins!

Since the kids's didn't really get to carve their own pumpkins with the knife dangers and all, they wanted to decorate their little pumpkins. For some reason, they were fixated on the hair. They loved having a pumpkin with hair. I even bit the bullet and let them color with Sharpies. Ooooh dangerous! :)

Pumpkin Carving

Cinderella

Lightning McQueen

John McCain (My husband's pumpkin of course :) )

Pumkin Carving in our house is a little complicated. The kids pick the designs they want to have on their pumpkin and then we put the patterns on the pumpkins and poke the holes with them to show the pattern on the pumpkin and then mommy and daddy carve them. My daughter couldn't have picked a more difficult one to carve. There are 2 toothpicks hidden in Cinderella holding it together. Of course, they look a lot better when they are lit, but we need to go get some candles before tomorrow. Who knew pumpkin carving took 3 hours :)

Play Dough Pumpkins

We have been talking about what we want our pumpkins to look like once we carve them so today we made some homemade play dough and made some pumpkins of our own as a dry run. :)

Play Dough Recipe

2 cups of Flour

1 cup of salt

4 Tablespoons cream of Tarter

2 cups cold water

4 Tablespoons of oil

food coloring

In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients, in another bowl combine the wet. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Cook on high uncovered in the microwave for 2 minutes. Remove and stir. Cook on high for another 2 minutes and mix again. Let cool, then knead well to mix. Store in an air tight container or zipper bag.

Ghosts!!

I couldn't resist making these today. I was dropping my son off at preschool this morning and one of the other classes were making these super cute ghosts. I knew I already had the cheese cloth, so I had to stop on the way home to get the liquid starch. I bet you could you could use watered down Elmer's as well, but I needed more of that too. My son LOVED getting his hands all sticky and messy. My daughter, not so much. :-)

All you have to do is dip the cheese cloth in the liquid starch and squeeze out the excess and drape them over cups. I used 2 layers of cheese cloth. Make sure it is long enough to spread out on the plate that you have set it on so the bottom looks all floaty when it dries. Then I used a yarn needle to make a loop in the top so I could hang them. They look so cute. This photo doesn't do it justice, but you get the idea.

Halloween magnets

I found these cute wood shapes at Michael's and we used our wood markers that I got from Oriental Trading to color them and then we put magnets on the back of them and PRESTO! It is a cute magnet I can use to hang up some more of their artwork :)

We also made those ghost suckers. I can remember making those when I was little. It is so fun to teach your kids how to do things that you used to do when you were their age.

SPOOOOOOOOOOKY!

We have been reading a lot of books about Halloween and we have seen a few movies about it also. We have been talking about what makes something Spooky and this is what they thought of...darkness and a spooky tree. We used foam sheets with this project and I found some really cool foam stickers at Michael's that had pumpkins and masks. Their pictures turned out really cute, but SPOOOOOOOOKY. :)

CRAZY Pumpkins!

Today we made pumpkins out of craft sticks. We brought out the markers and colored them and then we used glue (my son's favorite :) ) and then we used pom poms, googley eyes, feathers and buttons to decorate them. Aren't they silly?