Happy Halloween!
I have been keeping busy tiling.. tiling.. tiling.. my shower. I promise to give you and update on that soon, but today I am taking a break to share this great little project I did with the kids for Halloween.
This was a pretty simple project, and the kids helped me with it. I had been saving milk cartons for a while to obtain this many, but the cost of the supplies was less than $4.
I started with about a dozen milk cartons:
Because they had expiration dates printed on the side I was going to use for the face, I removed the writing with Goo Gone.
Next I used sharpie to draw the faces on:
We used pipe cleaners as "vines" atop the pumpkins:
And then cut leaves out of foam for leaves:
Finally, in order to make them glow orange I had to insert lites into the back of the cartons. I punched three holes using a knife
And inserted a string of orange lights into the puncture holes:
Cute little orange pumpkins all in a row:
I hope you all have a wonderful halloween and make sure to keep an eye out for all those little ghosts and goblins!
I have been keeping busy tiling.. tiling.. tiling.. my shower. I promise to give you and update on that soon, but today I am taking a break to share this great little project I did with the kids for Halloween.
I started with about a dozen milk cartons:
To make the stems, my 6 year old painted the caps brown:
We used pipe cleaners as "vines" atop the pumpkins:
And then cut leaves out of foam for leaves:
We had a little assembly line going:
Finally, in order to make them glow orange I had to insert lites into the back of the cartons. I punched three holes using a knife
And inserted a string of orange lights into the puncture holes:
Cute little orange pumpkins all in a row:
We set them along our front path to light the way for trick or treaters:
I hope you all have a wonderful halloween and make sure to keep an eye out for all those little ghosts and goblins!
