Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2012

pre school play date

 
 
This morning was my son's pre school play date.  He invited a handful of his friends over from school for some crafts and snacks.  I served popcorn, ghost boo-nanas, mini caramel apples, pumpkin doughnut muffins and clementines.  We had orange milk, cider and mummy juice boxes.  I also had hot cider on the stove for all of the mom's.
 
 


I used white duct tape and eyes to make the juice boxes into mummy's.  I put them in galvanized window boxes that are hanging on the deck.


 
For activities the kids decorated pumpkin shaped sugar cookies, glittered pumpkins and tried to eat pumpkin doughnuts on a string without using their hands. I also put some halloween toys (spider rings, plastic bats, etc) in the sand box for them to find.


 
 
 
 
 I also put out the dress up box and a mirror outside and that was a big hit with the four year old crowd.


      And the favors were the orange jello play dough and pumpkin cookie cutters.  It was a very fun morning and my son was delighted to share the fun with his friends. 


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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

haunted candy houses




We had another busy weekend and were hit with the stomach bug AGAIN.  On Friday it was a wet and rainy day in Connecticut so, I thought it would be fun for the kids to decorate their haunted candy houses.  They loved it.  This year we decided to put them on display along with our fine china. 




On Sunday (despite some of us not feeling great) we decided to make a quick trip to the pumpkin patch.  It was a perfect fall day and the patch is literally two minutes from our house.  The fresh air made us all feel a little better.  I feel so blessed to live in such a gorgeous part of our state.  Sometimes I wish I could bottle up these crisp mornings and warm days, the golden leaves and crisp apples.  I hope that you all had a nice weekend full of fun and good health!


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Monday, October 17, 2011

i ♥ pumpkins





We had a wonderful weekend.  On Sunday we went to a place called Jones Farm.  It was a beautiful fall morning.  We picked pumpkins, went on a hayride and then headed over to check out the vineyard. 



I also made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. (I rarely buys store bought cookies. Homemade just taste so much better.) I put them in our red cookie tin that I bought on one of our trips to Ireland.  The recipe is easy and the cookies are delicious.  You can find the recipe here.  Hope you had a wonderful weekend too.
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