Pumpkin M&M's

mmmmm...these ALMOST look good enough to eat.

I bought 5 small pumpkins - all about the same size and spray painted them different colors.  I cut out vinyl with my silhouette and stuck them on the pumpkins.

P.S. I loved these SO much that I kept them up for weeks after Halloween.

Halloween Treats!!!

For all you "older" ladies out there - do you remember going trick or treating and coming home with all different kinds of popcorn balls?  I kinda miss that tradition and so after some advice from a neighbor - I decided to tackle this one.  Let's be honest - I couldn't hand out popcorn balls to ALL the kids who come to my house (I probably get close to 300)  However I did make about 150 popcorn balls for my ward members and their kids.

In this day - you just don't know if you dare have your kids eat anything that is not prepackage but my friend game me an idea.  I printed labels that said, "Happy Halloween from the Wilkinsons) and stuck them on each popcorn ball.  That way the parents would know where they came from and just might let the kids eat them.  haha.

It's funny because when we were kids - it was so exciting to get ANYTHING that wasn't homemade and now it is a treat to get something homemade.  I loved seeing how excited all the neighbor kids were when they got the popcorn balls.  Definitely something I will try again next year!

Googly Eye Wreath

Wanna hear something funny?!?  I bought the supplies for this project last year and just got around to making it!!  hahaha!  Now I wish I had been able to find some blue fur - but orange it is!!  (Oh and I'm noticing my front door really needs to be painted!!)

Square Pumpkins

Chance's class has a Mystery Reader come in every week and read to them. I wanted to go in October so I could dress up. I decided to read the book "Spookley, the square pumpkin". It is a cute story about appreciating the differences in everybody.

Well - as you can imagine, I couldn't go empty handed!! I thought it would be cute to give the kids a little square pumpkin. Literally, I made 25 of these in less than one hour!! That includes cutting the wood, painting, and assembling!! They are super easy and the kids LOVED them!!

I used a 2x2 piece of wood and cut them into squares. I drilled a hole into the top and painted them orange. I used dowel pins for the stems. I like them because they are a little bit textured but you could use regular dowels as well. I painted them green. Then I stuck the dowel pin into the drilled hole and hammered it in.

I debated adding the raffia or drawing a face on them - but I ended up liking them just plain.