Next Friday is the 31st of October can you believe it? I can’t rather but here I am writing about Halloween. Now I know it’s an American holiday {although technically a Celtic origin symbolising the end of harvest} and each year I speak of how it is so and how I don’t actually like the custom of trick or treat I don’t like it at all.
However.
This is what I have found. Halloween and the other commercialised holidays think St Patrick’s Day, Thanks Giving, World Laugh day they provide the perfect little distraction to this FIFO life of mine and whilst I don’t allow the boys to trick or treat not now {and hopefully never} we do a Halloween party after dinner.
They look forward to it as do I. It mixes up the swing a little. It provides a welcome distraction for the swing.
For us how it works is like this after dinner I shoo them out to get dressed for bed to shower and I get to work like a mad woman decorating our little dining room with store and home-made decorations and laying the table with Halloween inspired desserts. As it happens this year I’m more organised and so I’m already thinking of what new decorations can be placed out and what food can be done. This new lease on life it should be mentioned has come about from having more time thanks to our wonderful education system lets be honest here so don’t feel like this is something I have done every year and nor is it done on a grand scale.
So these are the ‘crafts’ and I say that lightly because I am not a crafter. The glue gun and I will not be friends as you will see in the simplicity of the ones I have chosen and if you are keen to go beyond jelly snakes in the ice cream and fake spiders on the cakes consider some of these great little ideas here again we have slowly progressed from blood drinks {Ribeena} to brain shakes {milk shakes with eyeballs} as I have more energy and inspiration. I am no Martha Stewart or Donna Hay.
Ghost’s milk bottles ..a texta some scissors and some fairy lights placed up through the base {or tea lights or glow sticks} with some sand to keep it stable. Original instructions I am unable to find but this was sourced from Pintrest with no further details of where it came from.
Foam Bats or paper bats {I made paper}.. paper scissors and plain glue. Original instructions from here. This year I am going to do a wall of bats.
Spider egg sacks. A white stocking with some plastic spiders from the $2.00 shop original source here. This year I am going to cover the windows.
I am doing this to the entry to the kitchen..I have some black tarp {from the water slide last year} masking tape, paper plates done. Original source here.
Last year husband was home and well we went all out with costumes because obviously costumes are his thing..but this was last years efforts nothing crazy after all I have to clean it up .
Oh and Im slowly getting into this Pintrest thing here.
xxDeb
