The Connett Connection

Halloween time offers such fun opportunities for unique crafts and activities!  I have highlighted the activities and crafts that my kids have really enjoyed! My daughter loved painting her own paper plate pumpkin!  Super simple craft for even the youngest of kids, just pain or color your paper plate orange and add a stem! I created this Hundreds Chart puzzle for my daughter with a pumpkin patch theme!  She has enjoyed putting it together over and over! We have a Halloween tradition where each kid gets to paint their own pumpkin.  My five year old did the purple one on the left, the 2 year old made the one on the right and I painted the one in the middle for the baby.  They will remain on our bar until Halloween when we place them outside for the trick-or-treaters.  Then they will go back on our counter until they are no longer good. Another pumpkin activity we did was this pumpkin mosaic.  My daughter insisted on making a pattern...

Lysol and disinfecting wipes... that was my week.  After a second, then a third round of viruses for my kiddos, I am ready to be done with this week!  Hopefully we ALL start next week happy and healthy! We did manage to do a little bit of school this week, but not much. By far the favorite activity for the week, this spider craft engaged both my 2 year old and my 5 year old.  We used this template to make our spider.  My son sat for longer than normal coloring his spider.  He had to color his belly, then his eyes, then he had to give the spider a nose.  He then wanted to turn the spider over and color his back!  He made one of the wiggly legs himself (just kind of crumpled the paper in his hand) and when it didn't look like the one I was showing him he handed me the other legs and said, "Here Mommy.  You do it."  He liked helping me tape the legs to his spider!  We hung them up in the door way to the playroom.  When Grandma...