David was really excited for Halloween this year. My sister Kelly told me about her Halloween craft night with a couple of girls and I caught an idea from Studio 5 for a Halloween advent. I didn't get my act together early enough to make a full month advent so we did the 13 Days of Halloween. We started on October 19th with decorating the house with our current Halloween decorations.
Over the course of our 13 days we made: pumpkin bats which I called bat-o-lanterns, salt dough ghosts with brown paper bag trees, foam Halloween picture cards, we played Halloween tic-tac-toe (from My Computer is My Canvas it was a free printable), we went to the pumpkin patch, carved pumpkins, went to Halloween parties, we collected and read Halloween stories, worked on our costumes, and some other things. It was a fun time and just a little something for me to do with David one on one while Matthew napped in the afternoons. Most afternoons a couple of neighbor kids would join us and it was great fun.
I will totally do this activity again with David & Matthew next year. Maybe I will even splurge and go for the full 31 days of the month. I keep thinking of things that would be good for next year so we'll see what happens. Maybe I'll just leave it at 13 days and change out the activities every year. Most of our crafts from this year came from Family Fun. I might even change the way our 13 days is displayed. I don't know. I now have a whole year to work things out again.
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