Halloween themed silhouette paintings :)

These paintings are very easy to make and look pretty impressive even if you are not the best painter in the world :) We used first three colours of rainbow for our background and then added black silhouette shapes that represent Halloween. Harry was really proud of his painting. I think we'll do them more often :)

Background ready :)

Finished work 

Our Halloween decorations :)

This year like no other year we decided to do some spooky decorations outside for the Halloween night. And it was totally worth it! Every kid that walked in that night for their sweets, 

said it was spooky and great :) I think the most used word was 'awesome' :D 

Will try and do the same next year :)

Our Halloween project - Thombstones

I know you can by these for next to nothing in supermarkets, but it is so much more fun to make them :) We used two blocks of polystyrene that came in a box when we bought our TV, some left over wall paint (handy it was mushroom colour), craft knives, hot glue and some moss that we collected ages ago on a walk near the river ( I knew it would come in handy one day) :) Unfortunately, after we painted them we left it to dry outside and it started raining. Some paint got washed down. But I think it gives it slightly more aged look :) The end result looks really great and we will be using them tomorrow for our front yard decoration :)

Painting our freshly carved tombstones:)

Harry gluing his moss and posing with a crazy smile :D

Moss we were using :)

Finished tombstones - Harry's on left, mine on the right :)

Detail

Halloween treasure hunt 2011

This week is the half term week for kids and a prep week for Halloween for us. So to spend some time with little ones and get us all into the Halloween mood we decided to attend a themed hunt at PYO (Pick Your Own) farm in Gloucestershire. And what a great fun it was! Weather was brilliant, the staff was great and the tasks for kids were well planned out with few creepy touches added to it :) Here are few shots from our day in Primrose Vale Farm

Entrance

One of tasks - to build as large stack of pumpkins as possible
with only 9 pumpkins touching the ground :)

Flower for mama

Pumpkin skittles

Dad has a go :)

More pumpkin games :)

Mama pumpkin :)

And little pumpkins :)