Sustainable & Creative Living
With Halloween just around the corner and on a weekend this year, I’m always on the hunt for fun activities to make a fun day out of the spooky holiday. This week’s Halloween Jello Rescue is the perfect sensory activity that combines fun and learning without a huge mess. [Read more…]
It’s always fun to do crafty fall decorations, especially at Halloween. Whether it’s spooky goblins and ghouls or creepy black cats and jack-o-lanterns, there’s never enough Halloween décor to fill up my house during the trick-or-treating season. There always a plethora of awesome kids crafts to choose from but what if you’ve got teens in the house or even a full-grown adult with [Read more…]
Things are about to get spooky with this super fun Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt for kids. It’s got everything from haunted ghosts and sweet candy corn to scary skeletons and goopy eyeballs. This is a great activity for kids of all ages. Bring it trick or treating, or on your next evening walk through the neighborhood. If you’re skipping the door to door festivities this year, plan a scavenger hunt around your home or outdoors in the yard. The first to finish can collect a treasure box full of [Read more…]
Before too long a lot of us are probably going to have some extra pumpkins we no longer have any use for. Other than fall decorations, it’s not always easy to come up with uses for these Halloween leftovers. Try making this easy DIY Pumpkin Bird Feeder from some of your Halloween pumpkins:
Now that it’s officially Fall and Halloween is just around the corner, my house is already gearing up for costumes, candy, and cold weather! Crafts are one of my favorite things to do around the holidays and this Paper Plate Halloween Cat is the perfect little craft to get your little ones in the Halloween spirit. It’s easy to assemble and if you’re a crafty household, you [Read more…]
The fall season kind of snuck up on me this year. Trying to plan a wedding in the middle of the holiday season has not left much room for actual holiday planning. But I’ve been seriously missing that holiday feeling this year so I wanted to come up with an easy craft that could take my mind off wedding stuff and decorate for fall.
I’m sure if you’re inept at crafting you’ve seen the yarn pompom craze that’s been sweeping the internet. But my favorites, are the yarn balls before they become the pompom poof.
First, I made garland inspired by this post, just something simple and cute for me.