The children actually did this activity earlier in the month, but I forgot to post about it in my first Halloween Activities post, so I'm doing it now. Grandma Karen gave the children a nice set of Halloween stamps along with a black ink pad. The trio had a good time trying out all the different stamps. Jake really liked the stamp, stamp, stamp action. Can you guess which artwork is his?
LEGO PUMPKIN
The kidlets' father is a big time Lego fan, so Grandma Vicki sent him and the grandchildren a Halloween Lego kit. Bentley and Matt put it together recently. It's pretty cool.
JACK-O-LANTERN TAKE 1: The Boys
Matt took Jake and Viva to the grocery store to pick out pumpkins. They came home with two fine pumpkins. That same evening Bentley visited the grocery store with Grandma Karen and chose a great pumpkin, too! Grandma Karen also found a really cool pumpkin decorating kit. It contained long plastic pins that the boys pounded into the pumpkin after daddy helped them scoop it out. Then a bright light is put inside the pumpkin and the pegs glow...a little. This pumpkin was fun for the boys to do, but doesn't look as fine as a traditional carved pumpkin
JACK-O-LANTERN TAKE 2: The Trio
The following evening Matt again worked with the kidlets to produce a scary jack-o-lantern this time. First he drew a series of faces and Bentley picked his favorite one. Then the kids helped scoop out the pumpkin guts (as Matt calls them). Finally, Matt took a knife and under Bentley's direction carved out the face of the jack-o-lantern. I heard Bentley telling his dad that he deviated from the original design. Geeze! We'll see how B does when he's old enough to handle a knife.
PUMPKIN GUTS GAME
Matt took the guts from the pumpkin and created a game. You know how in haunted houses they always have those stations where you are encouraged to stick your hands in something gross? Well, that's what Matt did. He put the pumpkin guts in a container and threw in some coins to encourage the reluctant to dig in. As you can probably guess if you are a regular blog reader, Viva had a lot of fun and Jake and Bentley refused to get their hands dirty. Live a little guys!
MR. SPIDER'S EXTRA SCARY HALLOWEEN SKIT
Kara and Matt took the trio on Saturday to a 40 minute play for young children. Kara said the kids really enjoyed it. I quizzed Bentley on the adventure, but it was really difficult to get information out of him. We played 20 questions. There was a ghost, a witch, a vampire, a cat, and...a spider in the play. They sang songs that I don't know--or so Bentley told me.
TRUNK OR TREATING
Since Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, we did not take the kids out door to door to trick or treat. Fortunately our church ward held a Saturday Halloween event that we attended. Members came to the church building, parked their cars, opened their trunks, and handed out candy. It was very cold out. After filling up his small bag, Jake said he was done. Bentley and Viva wanted to continue on. Soon after Viva quit and went inside to eat chili with her dad. Bentley stuck it out to the bitter end. (It's not like he was interested in eating chili!) Bentley is going to be a two pillow case kid in a few years. When we got home he immediately insisted on counting his haul. He brought home 98 pieces of candy--well 93 pieces plus two bags of pretzels, an orange spider ring, a small tub of play dough, and a deck of Disney cards. I asked him if he was going to share his candy with great-grandma. There was a long pause and then he said..."Yeah, the part I don't want."
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