Ready for Halloween! We made spooky spiders to decorate the house.
We got the spider craft pattern from The Storytime Craft Book by Kathy Ross (Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2003). They are supposed to be Little Miss Muffet's spiders, but work well for Halloween. Just slide a 2-inch foam ball into a piece of old black tights and tie the ends. Unbend bobby pins for the legs, dipping the straight side into glue before you slide it into the cloth-covered foam. The eyes are thumb tacks. (Eli decided three eyes was spookier than two.) You can push a hole in the bottom of the foam spider and put it on your car antenna.
Carving the pumpkin with the help of Granddad and Grandma...
Eli used a Sharpie marker to draw the lines I was to cut. Whew! He gave me a challenge all right!
Thankfully, one Halloween long ago I splurged for a Van Vactor vegetable carving knife. Tight curves in a thick pumpkin? No problem.
Happy Halloween, one and all!
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