Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Dorothy, Toto, and Wolverine!

Top Five Friday #5 - Trick or Treat Candy

Do your children "share" their Halloween candy with you? I rarely buy myself any candy, but I do look forward to enjoying a few (ahem, sure, just a few) pieces of candy from the Trick or Treat stash. No one is giving out Godiva (too bad, that would be fantastic) so this week I am listing my top five common trick or treat candies to "steal" (I wanted to write borrow or share, but we all know that is just silly) from my children! Before anyone gets angry, my children get way too much candy on Halloween and if they ate all of it, their teeth would rot and then I would have outrageous dental bills and I would have to go back to work and then I wouldn't be able to blog anymore and you would miss me! (You would miss me, wouldn't you?)

Enough of that, here is my list:

1. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - "two great tastes that taste great together", what more can I say?
2. Twix - the cookie, the caramel, the chocolate - all good!
   
3. Almond Joy - they have coconut and almonds, two of my favorite foods! I just wish that I could have an Almond Joy with dark chocolate, combine the greatness of Mounds with the greatness of Almond Joy - perfect!
4. Peppermint Patty - cool, refreshing, dark chocolate, yum!
5. Kit Kat - crispy and chocolatey at the same time, so good.

I'm a chocolate person. I have no interest in the fruity candies. Just share the chocolate! So, what are you hoping to find in your child's trick or treat stash? If you want to link up here, but have a different top five in mind, that is great too! Please share!

Ghosts in the House

R LOVES the book, Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara so I knew we had to do a book project before returning it to the library. If you are not familiar with this book, we definitely recommend it. The plot is simple: a girl goes to live in a house but it is haunted. Luckily, she is a witch and she knows just what to do with those ghosts. R's favorite part of the book is when the witch puts all of the ghosts in the washing machine; R laughs every time we read this. I love the simplicity of this book, and I also love that the witch and ghosts are cute, adorable actually!


Our project was simple. We followed the color scheme (orange, black, and white) of the book and placed a black construction paper house on top of orange paper. Then we used white tissue paper to make a bunch of ghosts and glued them on and around the house. R drew faces on her ghost friends. She was very happy with her picture!

A Tea Party

R was so excited when she received an invitation to have tea with Great Grandma and Auntie Cyn. It was just the three of them, and they went all out!

They baked cookies.

Dressed up in fancy clothes.

And had a lot of fun together!

This is what memories are made of. I know R will never forget moments like this.

A Witch and a Wizard

C and R had fun turning party hats and paper plates into witch and wizard hats.

This idea came from 4 Crazy Kings. Click on that link to learn how to make a witch or wizard hat of your own.

Pumpkin Faces - Not quite open-ended art

The theme for open ended art this week is pumpkins. C and R made paper plate pumpkin faces, and I have to admit that the only open-ended part of this was that I let them decorate the pumpkin faces however they wanted.

To see some real open-ended art, visit my friend Shannon's blog.

A letter to the bus driver

C decided to write (dictate) a letter to his bus driver. I had to share this with you:

Dear Mr. D,

I like riding on the bus. Thank you for bringing me to school. Thank you for bringing me home.

Skeleton bones,
Spiders eat you up,
Ghosts and monsters on the bus,
Mummies growl,
Lollipops sing,
Pumpkins' scary faces,
Witch hats brew.

Love, C

I think it is the best letter ever written! Okay, maybe I'm a bit biased, but I do love the poem!

(The photo is from C's first day of Kindergarten)