Getting Ready for Halloween

We wanted to do some fun things to get in the spirit of Halloween.  Whitney has been getting steadily more excited for the big day, asking me every day if it was Halloween yet.  We have been having lots of fun preparing for it.

I got this pumpkin idea from the Friend magazine.  You take a toilet paper tube and wrap orange paper around it and then you take orange strips and tape them on both sides.  So it looks like a pumpkin.  It was pretty neat; the girls were proud of their pumpkins.  

We went to library story time and the girls got to color a picture of leaves and glue them onto trees.  Rachel mostly missed the tree and put the leaves under, seemed very fall like to me.

We went on a walk to collect some leaves.  Just going around the block one time gave us tons of leaves of different varieties.  Afterwards, we made leaf things.  Whitney made a leaf man; does it look like a person to you?

Rachel decided to just color her leaf.

I checked out lots of Halloween books from the library and we have been reading a couple a day.  For being such a small library, they have a good Halloween book collection.

And finally came the traditional making Halloween cookies.  I made a bunch of sugar cookies for the ladies I visit teach.  The girls wanted to help with the frosting.

Whitney did a good job decorating hers.  So it has been fun getting ready for Halloween,