Halloween Bowling – pinterest success!

Tis the season for Halloween Bowling! I’m a cub master and a preschool teacher & put together these bowling sets for both groups to make this past week (at pack meeting and at a preschool Halloween party). They were a huge success, and so stinkin’ cute!!

This project was a pinterest find, and I modified it a bit since I was making so many (12 sets) and had different ages (3 –10 yrs). The original version used 4 x 9” blocks, construction paper, googly eyes, and a bouncy ball. I made 1.5 x 6” blocks with vinyl stickers, and used a golf ball!

What you need to make my modified version:

• 6 – 1.5” x 6” x 1” blocks
• spray paint - (My favorite is Rust-oleum brand, use these colors - white, key lime, seaside, black, grape, and real orange)
• vinyl [and Silhouette machine] - (in these colors - black, white, and a little bit of yellow)
• vinyl sticker template (I created, this is for a Silhouette SD, but I think it will convert to other Silhouette versions)
• a golf ball (I got mine at Wal-mart, or find them here)
• red & black sharpies

Paint each board a different color, and let them dry. While those are drying, cut the vinyl stickers. I TOTALLY recommend a Silhouette machine, it makes projects like this so SO simple. All you have to do is open the template, load the vinyl & cut!

Once the boards are dry, and the vinyl is cut, it’s just a matter of applying the stickers. I showed the 3 year olds what it was suppose to look like (on the template), then they stuck them on how they wanted it to look. For the cub scouts, I just handed it to them and said, “put them together!”  The eyeball golf balls were simple too – use the sharpies to color in a black circle, then draw red squiggly lines all over it!

Then set it up and play!!

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Halloween fun!

Pictures were SCARE-ce this week (get it?!!). We had too much fun doing all the Halloween activities and didn’t get a lot of pictures in. We had a Halloween party on day with a bunch of little G’s friends. The other days of the week before Halloween we did Candy Corn, Bats, pumpkins & Mummy’s, then of course lots of trick-or-treating! 

Pictured:
1. Candy Corn counting
2. Decorating pumpkin sugar cookies with his friends at Halloween party
3. Mummy-dogs
4. Masking tape mummys
5. Construction paper candy corn (cutting practice!)

Other activities we did:

Candy Corn ideas – I used THESE ideas
Bat ideas & activities – THESE were a lot of fun
Pumpkin ideas & activities – I used A LOT of THESE, THIS snack, THESE activities, and THESE pumpkin faces. I adapted THIS activity to use a little pumpkin instead of a paper towel roll. We also carved pumpkins.
Halloween in general – sensory bags (with ghost face, pumpkin face, frankenstein face, and goggle eyes), dance to Halloween music, play dress-up, TRICK-OR-TREAT!!

Can’t wait until next Halloween!!

The perfect Halloween decoration (*easy & cheap*)

My holiday decorations throughout the year have been pretty lame. Halloween is when I actually put forth some effort..and even then it’s not that much! For our front deck I decided I wanted some hay bales and something spooky with it. We got some alfalfa bales instead, but they will just have to work for the next couple weeks. I picked up a bunch of clearance Halloween decorations last year, so we have a bunch of skull lights. One string was lucky enough to decorate the alfalfa, the other is in our flower bed.

As for the perfect touch to our front deck, all it took was a dead tree!

I went to our land, found a dead tree, cut off a couple branches, then painted them black (with Rustoleum Black Matte spray paint).

Nothin like a spooky dead tree for decoration. And if you get down to the nitty gritty, it cost me about $1.77 in spray paint (didn’t use the whole can) and $.56 in gas driving to our land and back. Not a bad decoration for just a couple bucks!

I had some smaller branches left over, so they went inside on our console table. Again, the perfect touch.