Bats, Spiderwebs, and Pumpkin....oh my!

Today, we celebrated Halloween a little bit.  Tomorrow we have library, so I wasn't sure how much we would be able to do.

 

We started off by making these cute little bats.

Take an egg carton and cut apart so each child has a section of 3 cups.  Then have them paint black.

When they are dry, add wiggly eyes and ribbon or string to hang up.  I let the children choose where their eyes go!

Pretty cute!!!

Along with celebrating Halloween, we always have to have some fun food.  I made everything ahead of time cause I wasn't sure if we would have time for it all.  These spider webs were super easy and the kids LOVED them!  Just take stick pretzels and lay them on wax paper to resemble a web. Then melt white chocolate, put in a ziploc baggie, snip the corner and drizzle on the pretzels like I did below.

The spider is a raisin with chocolate legs.

To stay with our pumpkin theme, I made a pumpkin dip, you can find the recipe here.  Definitely not a favorite of the kids......I think only 1 of them liked it......for me, it was ok, not something I could eat a lot of.  Now, I'm gonna have to figure out what to do with it cause it makes a pretty large batch......maybe I can add it to a cake mix and make some cupcakes??

I had a couple kiddos gone today, so I had a smaller group than normal.

Pumpkin Pie Crecent Rolls

While our pumpkin seeds were in the oven yesterday, we made another little snack.  Of course, it's another pumpkin recipe......pumpkin pie crescent rolls.

 

My little helpers!!!

 

1 cup pumpkin

 

4 oz. (1/2 block) cream cheese 

1-2 T Pumpkin pie spice

3-4 T sugar

Beat the ingredients until fluffy and creamy.  Then unroll crescent rolls and cut in half lengthwise.  Spoon a generous amount of filling on the crescent roll and roll up.

Then mix together 4 T sugar and 1 T pumpkin pie spice and roll each pumpkin pie crescent roll in it.

Bake at 375 degrees for 13-15 minutes.

Then enjoy!!!!

 All but one child loved them and asked for more.  I thought they were delicious!!!

 

 

 

These start with 2 tubes of refrigerated crescent rolls.   Roll each crescent roll out and cut lengthwise in 2.   This recipe will make 32 mini crescent rolls.   Each crescent roll will get a generous teaspoon of this pumpkin pie filling:

4 oz. (1/2 block) of cream cheese
1 cup of canned pumpkin
1 - 2 T pumpkin pie spice (adjust as you like!)
3 - 4 T sugar (granulated or powdered)

Beat the above ingredients together until fluffy and creamy and spread one teaspoon of filling over each triangle of dough.  Then roll up.

 

Mix together 4 T sugar and 1 T pumpkin pie spice and roll each pumpkin pie crescent roll in it!  Then bake at 375 degrees for 13-15 minutes.

Pumpkin Carving

Today we carved our pumpkin.....we grabbed a big one when we were at the pumpkin patch.  The children have been begging to carve it.....one of their favorite things to do and mine!

Pulling out the "guts!"

So proud of B, he actually dug in a few times......love his face!!! 

Maddox on the other hand was NOT going to reach in there! 

So, he used the scoop instead. 

We washed the seeds off and roasted them.......then drizzled some olive oil on top and sprinkled some season salt and garlic and put in oven for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees.  You could use any seasoning you prefer.....Connie (our neighbor) brought us some that she made with dry ranch mix.....those were pretty tasty as well. 

While they snacked on the pumpkin seeds, I carved the pumpkin......they voted on what type of jack-o-lantern they wanted.......pointy eyes, rectangle nose and jagged scary mouth!   

They love how it turned out......they think it's pretty scary!!!