Halloween-here we come!

This is usually what the front of the Jackman house looks like toward the end of August when we are getting tired of all the heat and sun! Autumn is my favorite time of year (I love all the colors and the weather) so I start decorating early! I take down all the bright spring/summer decor and swap it out for the orange, yellow, reds and browns!

The last week of September, Ryan gets out all of the Halloween decor and it takes usually about 1 week to get it all up!

Halloween is my favorite holiday! The scarier the better. When we were looking at houses, we would look at them with Halloween and Christmas decorating in mind! All three of our homes were/are the focal point of the neighborhood during the holidays!

Today I enlisted the help of the little boys with the window decorations. They helped me decide what should go where! Yesterday, we got to painting again and this time we made spiders from our hand prints. They loved it-they turned out really cute too!

Here is how to make them:

You will need:
white paper
black craft paint
white craft paint
paint brush or cotton balls
optional - plastic goggle eyes

Instructions:

1. Use a paint brush or cotton balls to apply black paint to your child's palm and four fingers (omit the thumb).

2. Have your child make a hand print on white paper.

3. Turn the paper around, and make another hand print, overlapping the palm area.

4. Paint over any extra white areas in the spider body (the palm part of the the print) and let the spider dry.

5. Attach goggle eyes, or paint white circles for the eyes.

6. You can cut out the spider if you wish, or hang it just as it is!