Decorating Witch Hats!

So, Halloween weekend was super busy and fun, and I'm just now getting around to writing a quick post about it.  We had a little family Halloween get-together, and I did a witch hat decorating activity with some of the girls, ages 8, 6, 3, and 2.  I set out four $2 witch hats, along with a bunch of art supplies to decorate them with.  I decorated an extra one myself as an example.  I gave them orange and black feathers, black tulle, glow in the dark fabric paint, sparkly adhesive gems, pom poms, and glitter glue pens. 

The girls went to town decorating their hats! The biggest hits were sparkly adhesive gems and glow in the dark fabric paint. 

My mom and I used a hot glue gun to help the kids glue on the tulle, pom poms, and feathers.  They personalized their hats with whatever they wanted-- they drew their names, favorite animals, and used more fabric paint than I would have thought possible.  Their hats lit up the Halloween night!

Creepy Glow-in-the-Dark Hunt

I'm somewhat holiday-obsessed, so we start celebrating Halloween early in this household.  The Dollar Tree has some pretty awesome Halloween stuff this year, and I picked up three packs of glow-in-the-dark thingies-- bats, rats, and spiders for $1/pack. 

I left the creepy critters under our piano lamp all day long so they would soak up the light.  I decided to do the hunt in Big Sister's room, so she would be in familiar terrain when clambering around in the pitch black darkness.  I gave her a Halloween bucket to collect the spoils, and we were off on the hunt.  There was a lot of "hunt hype" during the day leading up to this, so she was super pumped to get going.

She loved this.  Unfortunately the critters don't photograph well in the dark, but she had a blast finding and collecting these little guys.

We also had a good opportunity to practice counting and sorting at the end of the hunt-- 12 spiders, 6 bats, and 4 rats.  We'll definitely be doing this several more times before October 31.