13 Days of Halloween - Day 13 - Black Cat Day

Phew last day of the count down. It's a bitter sweet feeling. I did enjoy days with just my kids better, cause they were way less hectic. (plus I think my kids were easier to please cause I know them better) BUT I did like having something to entertain the Wadsworth kids with, especially having them twice a week right now. 

Today was black cat day. I always do this scavenger hunt with these black cat clues. I decided to paint cat faces and do a craft too. 

Milo wanted his face done, until I started and then he didn't. SO…this was it. 

This is a horrible demon looking cat. I KNOW THIS. Ha! But Gabe and Afton kinda expect some attempt, so I try. I could have planned better and done something actually cute, but they were content with my laziness. 

After we read a Splat the Cat Halloween book and watched a Garfield halloween show. Not a black cat, but it worked. 

They wanted cat faces too, and Gabe insisted on a purple nose with glitter whiskers. 

I also gave the kids left over "blood" to drink and fangs from vampire day, so they were crazy cats. Who knew playing around the house as cats would keep them so entertained for so long? It did and I was grateful. 

Some pipe cleaner cats. 

This was Callen chillin in the craziness. He is a doll. 

They loved this scavenger hunt. LOVED it. I had them all over the house with the cutest rhyming clues. (I add that cause I was so proud of myself and my rhymes) The hunt even made them take a break to eat some of our left over pumpkin cookies.  Addilyn was wonderful making sure they took turns, and helping everyone read the clues. Their goodies ended up in our dryer to find.

Finding a clues in the pumpkin

97 cent coloring books + crayons and a sticker page. Not bad eh?

Hurray they loved it! What a nice ending to a crazy 13 days of fun. 

13 Days of Halloween - Day 12 - Vampire Day

This day had high hopes, but fell kinda flat. Only cause Gabe had a birthday party to go to, and I made her get a bunch of homework done before she left. Ollie didn't want to do stuff by himself, so we kinda did what we could. I had more planned, but we didn't get to it. 

For lunch I asked Gabe what vampires eat, she told me blood. I told her we would have what vampires eat for lunch. So we drank blood. Ollie was kinda a little freaked by it until I told him it was lemon aid (cherry lime aid). Then he was all about it. I put my ice cube eyes in it as well. Just for the record we ate food too, even though Gabe just wanted blood. 

(It was hat day for red ribbon week so that's why she has a hat)

My scary vampires and their glow in the dark teeth. We watched Hotel Transylvania together. I love that show. I planned to play another game and paint their faces, but it didn't happen. Ah well. It was still nice. 

Pumpkin Carving

This was part of our pumpkin day, but I wanted to do a different post for it. This year we actually got free pumpkins. They weren't big ones, but we didn't need big ones for little kids. They were just as content with pumpkins they could carry. Thanks to nice farmers in the area who just want to give away extra small random pumpkins. 

Gabe pretty much did most of her by herself this year. It was kinda nice and fun to see how much she loved it. Ollie doesn't love the guts or having dirty hands. He never has liked being dirty. So he still wasn't that into emptying the pumpkin. He did like helping Daddy poke and carve though. 

Milo was hilarious. He loves digging with a shovel in the sandbox outside. It's one of his favorite things to do. So when he saw us all using tools and our hands to empty these pumpkins, he jumped right in to help Gabe. He didn't even hesitate with the gooey insides. So cute. We just laughed. He wanted to help everyone, and try all the tools. It made the night super fun.

Thanks to Nana for the fun pumpkin stickers. We put them on the back of our pumpkins. They were perfect for Milo's pumpkin. His was still not ripe and small so it was rock hard, so we couldn't carve it. The stickers made it super cute. 

Milo of course had to put the pumpkin in his mouth. He liked chewing on it. Silly boy. 

Ollie has Jake from the Neverland Pirates this year. It's who he is being for Halloween. Gabe's was actually Rainbow Dash the pony. She wanted an Izzy one like her costume, but we couldn't find one. She was happy with a pony. She carved and cleaned a lot of it. Turned out pretty cute. 

By the end of the night our kids were way past their bedtime and super grumpy, and still getting over colds, so this was the best picture we could get. They were mad to share chairs or not hold pumpkins, or to have to turn back on the lights, etc. Time for bed. For the record though, it was a fun evening with them. We love carving pumpkins. 

One video is Milo dancing to Thriller, and the other is of him helping clean out the pumpkins. 

13 Days of Halloween - Day 11- Pumpkin Day

Pumpkin day is easy too. My kids love it cause they remember we carve pumpkins on this day. We usually do it for a FHE activity. The Wadsworth kids were a little bummed I didn't have carving pumpkins on the list for them. Ah well. I did some stuff they thought was fun so that works. 

 

I did let them decorate pumpkins with a sticker page. The little ones were fans of this, cause of the stickers. 

Cheese pumpkin quesidillas, with guacamole stems for lunch. Afton wasn't sure about the guac, but tried it and liked it. We had some "pumpkin" soda to go with it. 

We played this roll a pumpkin game that had some cute twists, they liked it. 

We also played "Don't eat Jack" like the game "Don't Eat Pete." Gabe kept accidentally saying Pete instead of Jack. You can tell we play that game at our house enough. 

I was gonna do a painting craft but I was out of paper plates, so I didn't bother. Instead Ollie helped me make pumpkin cookies for everyone to eat. I needed some for a Halloween party tonight with the Young Women, so it was nice it went along with my theme for the day so I could feed some to the kids too.