Spooky Crafts

This craft is obviously not spooky, we just happened to have finally finished this during the month of October.  I am somewhat embarrassed to say this project was started before Tate was born, back when Grant was still really into cars and trucks.  Ryan cut the wood, we painted, and used bought stencils for the smaller paintings.  I think what took so long was that we had to hand design and cut out the stencils for the motorcycle, tractor and firetruck.  I'm not very artistic, so this part was frustrating and slow (hence I procrastinated finishing it).  Finally it is done!  We added Tate's name since Grant does not care too much about cars and trucks now and one day they will be sharing a room.  Grant did say he liked it, so I don't feel too bad about taking a over a year to complete it. 

 Now on to the spooky things.  My mom kindly sent the boys a Halloween package in the mail (which they were very excited to get).  Among the goodies inside was their new favorite skeleton PJ's.  The bones glow in the dark so the first night the boys put these on they invented a new game they call "dark".  Basically, they turn out all the lights in Grant's room and chase each other in a circle growling and making spooky noises.  It has somehow made it's way into the bed time ritual because now we generally can't get from teeth-brushing to book-reading without a few rounds of "dark".

 In that same Halloween package I received the Taste of Home Halloween magazine with tons of ideas of yummy Halloween treats, crafts, costumes, party ideas and the like.  Grant and I made these cute little lanterns using old jars, tissue paper and lots of Mod Podge.  It was fun and they turned out really cute.  I'm really into Halloween this year (partially because Grant is so excited about it and partially because it's just fun).  I am planning on making several of the Halloween food ideas so I'm sure I will post some of those (I know you can't wait :).

Here's what they look like at night on the porch.