Turkey Day!

Yesterday, we had the cousins that are Lily's age over for a Turkey Day! We made cute turkeys on a stick. This was pretty easy for the kids to do. (yeah!)

Aren't they cute? (Thanks Kathleen for these turkey crafts!!)

We also made these turkey hats!

Lily:

Camden:

Ares:

Johnny:

After craft time, the kids sat down and had these yummy turkey treats:

And drank juice out of these turkey glasses:

It was a day full of turkeys!

Halloween Craft Day

We had our third Craft Day at our house today!
Our theme for today was Halloween art projects.
The first project we did was Shape Monsters.
We gave the kids lots of different shapes of different colors, googly eyes, and puff balls, and then let them go to town!

They did a really good job being creative!

Our next project was Hand Print Spiders.

Painting their hands is always fun. =)

Then we let them stamp with Halloween stamps.

They had a lot of fun with their projects and did a great job!!


When the boys got home from school, they decided that they needed to make monsters too.

Here is Riley's scary monster....

and Zach's nice monster.

We are planning on doing more fun Halloween crafts next week too!

Turkey Time!

We have been all about turkeys around here! First, we made hand turkeys with paint.

Then we made hand and foot turkeys. I usually trace their hands and feet on paper and then cut them out, but this year I decided to just use paint. It was actually a lot less time consuming this way, and surprisingly easier.

Then we collected leaves and pine cones and made turkeys out of them.

I can't believe Thanksgiving is so close! Time definitely needs to slow down!!

Fall Art Projects

Fall is finally starting to creep in, so last week, we started making Fall art projects!


This one I did with just Lily. Since she isn't good with scissors yet (OK, I don't let her use scissors...) I cut out squares of orange, yellow, and red and had her glue them onto a piece of paper with a leaf printed on it.

I tried to have her say the names of the colors while she was gluing, but she thinks everything is blue, so we didn't get very far with that. =)


I also had Riley and Lily do fingerprint leaves on paper with trees printed on them.
Riley did a really good job using his fingers.....Lily decided to make handprint leaves......at least she had fun! =)

Can you tell which one is Ri's & which one is Lily's?

The last project we did is making a scarecrow face. I cut out all of the shapes and the kids glued them onto a small paper plate.

Aren't they cute? (oh, the kids are cute too.)

Those are our Fall projects for now..... now I can't wait for Fall weather!!!!