Halloween Jar printable

I am so excited that I am actually a wee bit ahead this year with halloween.   Let's just hope I stay on a roll until christmas ;) To kick off the spooky season, I am happy to share my first printable with you!   

this is the first time I've tried offering a printable to share, so I hope it works without a glitch ;) I printed mine as two to a page to get it to the size I wanted.

You can attach a little creepy crawly bug for giving to classmates.

I found a big bag of bat rings at Walmart and attached those to the card.

I love the Halloween colored baker's twine.

You can see here I just cut a slit in the card and pushed the ring through to hold it in place.

You can use these to make as cards for family, too.  

add a couple sweet little thumb prints and turn them into spiders.

Find my printable Halloween jar here

enjoy!
 ♥ Happy creating ♥
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halloween favors for school {WITHOUT candy}

i was hunting on pinterest for some fun ideas for candy-free halloween treats.  most of what i found was loads and oodles of ideas for creatively packaged candy.  

since i'm sure there are other mama's out there looking for ideas that don't include candy, i'm sharing my finds with you today.

so if your kiddos school has food-free parties, or you're just looking to avoid the extra sugar shock ;) here are some ideas for you...

 Please pin all photos below from the original souces 



1.  Glow sticks super inexpensive and useful while trick-or-treating later at night

ladybug's Teacher Files{includes printable}

Oink {includes printable}






2. Pencils
these are packaged too cute to pass up, and an inexpensive idea

Jill's Card Creations

Simple Flourishes

aubabi78

3. Book markers

i love this idea. especially for the early grades when they are starting to read chapter books.  hand make some to give to the class or print ones with Halloween themed jokes.   

healthy mama info

activity village






4. Play do
if there are any wheat allergies in the class it's best to pass on this idea.  if not, it would make a fun favor with a small cookie cuter included.  or let your kiddo dress up the outside of the can with construction paper.  

create-celebrate-explore

the idea room

5. Kid made craft
depending on their age, they might love making something to give to classmates.  ideas for this are limitless.  these are a few fun ones i came across...

skeleton necklaces

bread tag monsters

Martha Stewart

bat clothes pins

6. Pirates and Princesses
i love this one.  a halloween wand for the girls and a pirate patch for the boys. at some crafts stores you can find cheap wands for embellishing.  

prettimini

source

7. Halloween Trinkets

bags of halloween favors are in every store.  package them with a small tag or pick a few favors to put in a baggie with a halloween bag topper.

Not just a mommy

Amazon

PricklyPress

8. Crayons with a coloring sheet
you can find an inexpensive bag of party favor crayons at any big box store.  print out and roll up a halloween coloring sheet to include with it.  you can get as creative as you want with this one.

MrsCraftyRVing

WizardAtWork

kids-n-fun

9.  Fun Cups
last year i found set of 8 pumpkin cups in the Target dollar section.  this is another idea that can work for any cost range.

LexiesShop

iHaveAFavor

10.  Stickers and Tattoos

this is an easy one.  Target sells big bags of these, and they even come in a little box ready for handing out to classmates.

Oriental Trading

11.  Puppets

the younger ones would love these, and again, this can work for any price range.  making ghost hand puppets using white stretchy gloves, black felt, and a glue gun is the most inexpensive option. 

Sing of Sixpence

MFcrafts

Mama Smiles

And a couple food-free treats for the teacher:

a roll of toilet paper with a tag that reads, "that's a wrap".

Who is Tracy

hand sanitizer with a tag that reads, "germs are scary".

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have fun creating with your little ones this halloween ♥

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Goodbye October

Well October and Halloween have come and gone again.  

Here's a snippet of our Halloween weekend.

These witch shoe favor boxes were a last minute thing.  I found these via pinterest and made a few the night before Halloween.  They are by far one of the cutest things I've seen made with paper.  I'm loving them!  Find out how to make them (for next year) over at The Fickle Pickle.  

The ladybug and little guy had a blast trick-or-treating!  I love watching them have so much fun.  I take waaaaayyyy too many pictures, but I know one day I'll be glad I did.  

The hubs and I had to dress up for a costume party, too.  We kept our costumes simple and free.  I had grand plans for making us Mr. & Mrs. Potato head complete with face pieces we could change throughout the night.   

Oh well, maybe next year.  Instead we were...an "e-male" and an attachment.  

(It made me giggle!)

Hope you all enjoyed your Halloween weekend!

Pumpkin Carving

A couple weekends ago we had family over for pumpkin carving fun.

While carving we had caramel apple cider and donuts.

There was pumpkin painting for the little ones.

The winning pumpkin...

The winning carvers with their golden pumpkin trophy.

Our pumpkin was a fairy house pumpkin.  

Inspired by Martha Stewarts adorable Halloween village.

I think I'd love to carve a table full of these!

Have you seen this one yet?

Love it!

Fairfield House

Halloween Costumes

The ladybug and little guy are ready for trick-or-treating. 

 After seeing the new Smurf movie, the ladybug had her heart set on being smurfette for Halloween.  

Being two, the little guy doesn't really care what he wears so he's a smurf too.  Last weekend they tried out their costumes trick-or-treating at a local safety town.

2011

My mom made these smurf costumes for them.  (Thanks mom!!!)

Today I thought I'd share some costumes from the past, too.

2010 Woody and Jesse

2009 Ladybug Girl and a Dinosaur

2008 Blue

Find some other fun costume ideas on my Pinterest board HERE