Our First Annual North Pole Breakfast

Our visiting elf "Christopher Pop In Kins"

A new tradition.

Checking out the jingle bells that the elf left on the table.

We had such a fun morning. One of Santa's elves "Christopher Pop In Kins" arrived to stay with us and set up a North Pole Breakfast. I had seen the idea on Pinterest. I knew it would be so much fun.

For breakfast we had Snowman and Reindeer donuts.

Snowman and reindeer were made with leftover Halloween M&M's and pretzels.

Our elf left a cute little elf straw cup for milk.

Christopher elf also left a note and new pair of Christmas pj's for Alex.

 Alex is having so much fun with the elf. He's told everyone about him and that they can't touch him or he will loose his magic. Once in a while when Alex isn't looking Christopher moves around the house. Alex is so excited to find him. We read the book that came with him and we watch the Elf on the Shelf tv special that was on the other night. I dvr'd it for him. I will be posting about all the places we find Christopher each morning.

Hand and Foot Print Turkey

Well if you've read any of my previous posts you will know that we love to do hand and foot print art. So I came up with the idea to make a Thanksgiving turkey. Alex did yellow, orange and red hand prints as the feathers and then I painted his foot brown with orange toes for the turkey's body. We added some googly eyes, a paper beak and wattle.

We have also been reading a bunch of fun Thanksgiving books this week.

I Heart Faces {Autumn Splendor}

Its been a while since I entered a photo challenge. The theme over at I Heart Faces is Autumn Splendor. I took a bunch of cute photos of Alex playing in the beautiful leaves at the park, but this is my favorite. He's laying in the leaves with his arms spread wide. I love the contrast of the orange leaves and his blue shirt.

Thanks for looking and check out all the other amazing Autumn Splendor photos at:

Halloween Wrap Up

Yay! Our computer is finally fixed! So here is a few photos of what we have been up too. Mostly Halloween stuff. We will be back on our regular school work soon continuing on with Letter F.

We went to a Pumpkin Festival

Alex decorated his pumpkin

Played some pumpkin bean bag toss

Face painting

ghost face painting

Hayride

Alex made some Halloween cards for his Great Uncle and Great-great Aunt

We made a Haunted House for the wall. Just black paint, some craft foam and some scrap cardboard. More on the fall tree in a later post.

We added some spooky Halloween creatures in the windows

We made a cute Frankenstein out of a TP roll. More on that here. Just a better photo.

We of course carved and decorated our pumpkins.

This is the pumpkin we grew in our garden. Alex painted it with a stencil so we could use it for some cooking.

Alex wanted to help carve the pumpkin too. He practiced on some scrapes.

Alex and our owl pumpkin

I made Alex a Halloween lunch. A hot dog mummy, a banana ghost, a skeleton marshmallow, a pumpkin bread with orange colored butter and some ghost milk.

Here is a couple more photos of Alex in his fireman costume. He loved Halloween and wanted to got trick or treating every night for a week afterward. LOL

Happy Halloween!

and this years costume.....

Wishing everyone a safe and fun Halloween!!

Some Halloween Crafts

I am apologizing in advance for the quality of these photos. Our computer is still broken, (waiting for a part to come in the mail) so I can't process any of my digital camera photos. These photos are from my camera phone and it has very poor resolution. Anyway, I thought that sharing something was better than nothing :)

Slime
This has been on my list for a while and Halloween seemed like a great time to try it. It was amazingly easy and turned out perfectly slimy.

I got the slime recipe from here:
In a bowl dissolved 1 tsp of Borax in 1 cup of water. In a separate bowl mix 1/2 cup of white glue (Elmer's) in 1/2 cup of water, also you can add some food coloring if desired.. When both bowls are well mixed simply combine them together and your slime starts to form instantly. Continue mixing as long as possible, you can take it out and knead it with your hands. There will be some water left in the bowl, just dump it out. Your slime is ready to play with. Store you slime in a sealed container or zip lock bag.

Frankenstein

This idea for super cute toilet paper roll Frankenstein I saw on No Time For Flash Cards. Alex painted a tp roll green. I cut a jagged strip of black construction paper for hair and Alex glued it on. He also glued on a orange nose and some googly eyes. I punched some holes in the sides and Alex added some golf tees as bolts. We drew on a mad looking mouth.

We have been reading a lot of great Halloween books

A Little Halloween Inspiration

So my husband accidentally broke our computer the other day trying to clean the dust out of the fan. So I can't share any of the photos from the activities we have been doing :(  Hopefully he will have it fixed next week. In the meantime I thought I share some of the inspiring Halloween activities we are planning on doing next week. We are very excited for Halloween! These are all saved on my board on Pinterest. I am totally addicted to Pinterest. If you haven't yet checked it out I suggest you do. I find so much great inspiration there.

Boo-nilla Shakes  from Martha Stewart

Leaf Ghosts from Disney Family

Halloween Slime from What Do You Do All Day?

TP Frankenstein from No Time For Flashcards

Halloween Paint Chip Cards from Angela Sgro Designs

Q-Tip Skeleton from Crafts For All Seasons

Monster Mash Popcorn from In Katrina's Kitchen

Paper Plate Ghost Windsock from Kaboose

Coffee Filter Spider Webs from the Artful Parent

Halloween Pre-k Pack from Over the Big Moon

H is for Halloween printables from Oopsey Daisy

Footprint Ghost and Handprint Spider from Handprint and Footprint Art

Hopefully I will be sharing our versions of these crafts next week. Fingers crossed!