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🖤HALLOWEEN TABLE FIT FOR ITSY-BITSY GOBLINS! 🧡I love decorating for different holidays! It adds to the enjoyment and fun! 🖤So, here is our decorated Halloween table—BEFORE we all sat down and created food chaos at our Family Halloween Party! 🧡I purchased the Halloween plates and cloth napkins at HomeGoods. The glass cups with skeleton hands from the Dollar Store and mini-tin cups to hold Halloween candy favors. 🖤Our centerpiece included Halloween lights lined with the dot pumpkins the grandkids made a few weeks ago. 🧡Halloween Memories 2023!

💜WOOD HALLOWEEN FIGURES 🖤Purchase wooden Ha

💜WOOD HALLOWEEN FIGURES 🖤Purchase wooden Halloween figures—ghosts, witches' hats, pumpkins, and black cats (Dollar Store). Paint them with tempera paints; let them dry and decorate them with Halloween washi tape. 🧡Fun Festive Halloween Activity! And a super easy setup!

🖤PASTA SKELETONS 💜Grab some black paper, di

🖤PASTA SKELETONS 💜Grab some black paper, different kinds of pasta, glue, and fluorescent markers, and make these cute Halloween skeletons! 🖤@artprojectsforkids posted these cute skeletons glued on popsicle sticks which was more of a monochromatic approach. 💜We wanted color so we changed them up a bit and used black paper and fluorescent dauber markers—the result being bright skeletons that glowed in the dark! 🖤Have you made pasta skeletons before?

🖤BOBBING FOR APPLES 🧡Did you bob-for-apples

🖤BOBBING FOR APPLES 🧡Did you bob-for-apples as a kid? I did! And I loved it—water in my face and all! 🖤So, we added this fun game to our Halloween festivities. It took a couple of minutes for the kids to get the hang of what they were doing—and to aim for grabbing the apple stem with their teeth. 🧡The youngest grandkids (2 & 3-years-old) eventually gave up and just grabbed an apple with their hands. 🖤What’s been your experience bobbing for apples?

🖤FINGERNAIL POLISH DIPPED PUMPKINS –DO THIS A

🖤FINGERNAIL POLISH DIPPED PUMPKINS –DO THIS AT YOUR NEXT HALLOWEEN PARTY! 💜A few years ago, we dipped small Styrofoam pumpkins into fingernail polish to make pumpkin bouquets. 🧡This year we used LARGE Styrofoam pumpkins that we dipped into fingernail polish! 🖤The result was truly spectacular! 💜I found these pumpkins at the Dollar Store and stuck a skewer at the top so the grandkids had something to hold onto when they dipped their pumpkin. 🧡Do this outside—grab a tub and fill it with warm water. Next, pour different colors of Halloween nail polish into the water. Stir the colors gently. Then dip your pumpkin ½ way up in the water and watch it “grab” the nail polish colors! 🖤To dry—poke your skewered pumpkin in the lawn for about 30 minutes. 💜FYI: we went through 12 bottles of nail polish. Each pumpkin “grabbed” all the polish in the tub so we had to replenish nail polish after each pumpkin dip. 🧡These turned out so colorful—and the “hit” of our Halloween party!

🖤💜MORE SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES 🧡Decora

🖤💜MORE SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES 🧡Decorating Halloween cupcakes has become a tradition in our home. And Halloween is the best holiday for making colorful and spooky cupcakes. 💜Whip up some cupcakes. Make loads of colorful frosting and add some Halloween doo-dads. 🖤Now, take a bite!

🖤DECORATING HALLOWEEN COOKIES! 💜Can’t hav

🖤DECORATING HALLOWEEN COOKIES! 💜Can’t have a Halloween party without decorating a few cookies. 🧡To make things easier—I purchased these ready-made Halloween cookies at Costco. All the kids had to do was color them with food-grade markers and eat them. 🖤Easy-peasy and so much fun! 💜Check out your local grocery stores or Costco to purchase

🧡HALLOWEEN NECKLACES & A HALLOWEEN PARTY! 🖤

🧡HALLOWEEN NECKLACES & A HALLOWEEN PARTY! 🖤Here is our Halloween party for 2023. We haven’t celebrated Halloween 2024…yet—we’re getting ready this weekend! 💜Our party included 15 family members—including grandkids from the East and West coasts. As the saying goes— “The more the merrier!” 🧡First—let’s make a Halloween necklace! 🖤Easy to make—order Halloween beads on Amazon (especially the ones with eyeballs) and string them on a sturdy plastic string. 💜Don’t forget to make pompoms to decorate the ends of each necklace. 🧡Do you know the history of pompoms? Since the dawn of time, pompoms have acted as protective charms—warding off evil from the children or adults who wear them. 🖤The grandkids’ cute pompoms at the ends of their necklaces warded off nasty little Halloween spooks! 💜Ever make Halloween necklaces? What’s been your experience?

🖤HALLOWEEN BOOKS 💜One of the things that ma

🖤HALLOWEEN BOOKS 💜One of the things that makes Halloween (and every other holiday) so amazing—are the children’s books we read to our kids & grandkids. 🧡A favorite? “Miss Smith and the Haunted Library” by Michael Garland. It’s to “die” for! 💜It features famous goblins and other scary creatures from children’s literature that pop out of the book as the librarian reads it. Plus, the author has a guide at the end to tell you where all these spooks come from. It’s bound to become a classic in your family! 🖤And check out these amazing colorful illustrations—the librarian actually has bright blue hair—didn’t translate in the photo! 💜Details: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/

🧡PUMPKINS MADE WITH COLORED PASTA 🖤Dyeing p

🧡PUMPKINS MADE WITH COLORED PASTA 🖤Dyeing pasta orange and decorating paper pumpkins is just plain spooky! 🧡All you need is a pumpkin template, (link on post), colored pasta, and big googly pumpkin eyes. 🖤We dyed our pasta using orange and green food coloring (directions on post); cut out pumpkins, glued on googly eyes, and—glued on our dyed-orange pasta. 🧡A fun way to celebrate Halloween! 🖤Details: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/

🧡HALLOWEEN SENSORY FUN---DIGGING IN JELL-O FOR

🧡HALLOWEEN SENSORY FUN---DIGGING IN JELL-O FOR HALLOWEEN PARAPHERNALIA! 🖤This is a re-run from last year that our grandkids had such fun doing, we repeated it this year! 💜You need Jell-O, Halloween doo-dads (Dollar Store), spoons, or kid-size tweezers—that’s it! 🧡Make up the Jell-O—one dish per child, and when the Jell-O is melted, add all the Halloween paraphernalia & set in the fridge. Give each child a spoon or tweezers and let them scoop to their hearts’ content! 🖤Sensory activities are important for children because they help build nerve connections in the brain for increased learning and encourage the development of motor skills! 💜Details: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/ and for IG the link is in the bio

🧡HALLOWEEN CUTOUTS USING WASHI TAPE 🖤Here’s a fun & easy way to bring the Halloween spirit into your home! 🧡Grab some unfinished wooden Halloween cutouts (12”) at the Dollar Store or Walmart (I couldn’t find any big enough on Amazon). 🖤Use tempera paints to color your figure. Let dry and add pieces of Halloween washi tape to complete the project! 💜Details: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/
and on IG the link is in the bio

🧡MAKING & BAKING COLOR FLOW HALLOWEEN COOKIES!

🧡MAKING & BAKING COLOR FLOW HALLOWEEN COOKIES! 🖤My husband took cake decorating classes in the 80s—and won awards for his cakes. Forty-plus years later, he’s honing his cookie-decorating skills. 💜We’ve done all kinds of cookie decorating with our grandkids—regular frosting, bags of frosting, and different ways of decorating. 🧡This time, we attempted to teach them color flow—which is a bit trickier. 🖤These pictures are cookies the grandkids did—not perfect but not too bad for their first try. We took them one by one to show them each step individually. 💜WARNING: To be honest, I’m not a fan of color-flow frosting. Cookies made from color-flow frosting usually turn out darling, but the frosting gets as hard as cement. So, if you bite into a cookie with color flow frosting—you may lose a tooth and have to spend 20K to get an implant. 🧡Sorry, I’d rather have less “cute” and a softer frosting! 🖤Get the nitty-gritty Halloween details and supply list here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/

🧡HALLOWEEN GARLAND MADE USING SPIN ART! 🖤Pu

🧡HALLOWEEN GARLAND MADE USING SPIN ART! 🖤Pumpkins, witches, bats, black cats, and ghosts are synonymous with fall and Halloween—so here is a fun activity to hone those cutting and gluing skills! 🧡Try making a Halloween garland using spin art & Halloween cutouts—a kids’ favorite! 🖤Download some Halloween templates and paint them using spin art (a lettuce spinner and paint). Then grab some twine; cut up some Halloween drinking straws and put it all together! 🧡Watch the fun 20-second video to see how cute these turned out! 🖤Get your supply list and directions on the post here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/

🧡HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSES 🖤Last year, I pur

🧡HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSES 🖤Last year, I purchased ready-to-make Halloween haunted houses at $15/each. This year I opted to go less expensive because the store-bought variety was too big for the grandkids to complete. 🧡You make these by “gluing” graham crackers together with melted sugar. 🖤Then give your kids/grandkids (even a 2-year-old can do this) lots of things to decorate their houses with—including plastic construction pieces in Halloween colors. 🧡These were TOTALLY decorated by the kids, and they didn’t want any input from us—including when they decided to frost over the front door! 🖤PS: If you see any black teeth or faces in these pictures it’s because the kids were licking the black frosting as they decorated their houses—oops! 🧡Details: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/ For IG the link is in the bio

🧡THE CUTEST HALLOWEEN CATS, EVER! 🖤I saw th

🧡THE CUTEST HALLOWEEN CATS, EVER! 🖤I saw this on @artprojectsforkids and thought it would be fun to make these cute Halloween black cats! 🧡Years ago, my kids took classes using the Monart method—learning how to draw with step-by-step instructions and combining different shapes--@artprojectsforkids is similar. 🖤We made these black cats using black poster paper and metallic markers. Even my teenage granddaughter joined in the fun! 🧡Such a fun, dramatic, and colorful way to make a black Halloween cat! They’re not spooky, but they are super cute! 🖤Thank you @artprojectsforkids for your inspiration! 🧡Get all the details here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/ and for IG the link is in the bio

💜CHECK OUT THESE SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CARDBOARD WIT

💜CHECK OUT THESE SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CARDBOARD WITCHES! 💜Halloween is getting closer! What are your plans to make the season scary & fun for your kids/grandkids? 💜This week—I’m sharing some of our Halloween fun from the past! 💜Nothing spells “Halloween” like a good old-fashioned spooky WITCH! 💜We made these from cardboard and used Kwik Stix markers to color them Halloween colors—bright orange, black, yellow, purple, and green. Coloring on cardboard adds texture and dimension to the finished piece. 💜You can add buttons, glitter, and anything else to your witch!
Creating, coloring, painting, and gluing are all great ways to stir the imagination while building fine motor skills and bilateral coordination! 💜Get all the creepy details here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/ And for IG the link is in the bio

❤GREGORY, THE TERRIBLE EATER BY MITCHELL SHARMAT

❤GREGORY, THE TERRIBLE EATER BY MITCHELL SHARMAT 💜This is a funny book to teach your kids/grandkids about eating healthy foods. But not from the perspective you’re thinking… 💙Gregory is a peculiar little goat. Instead of eating old shoes, bottle caps, or boxes (like most goats), he prefers fruits, veggies, eggs, and fish! His worried parents take him to see Dr. Ram who assures them in time, Gregory will change. ❤Eventually Gregory eats flat tires, broken violins, and other goat delicacies. However, now Gregory is eating everything in sight…like a pig! 💜Will Gregory find a healthy balance? 💙The humor is Gregory is a healthy little eater. But he’s a goat and his parents want him to eat like a goat—just like we all want our kids to make healthy food choices. ❤This is a classic tale of finding balance and moderation in eating—included are 3 lessons to be learned, healthy recipes your kids/grandkids will love, and a breakdown of why different food groups are important for kids. 💜I also have a YouTube channel (Tidbits of Wisdom for Parents) with 152 videos I created about different subjects connected to my Good Parenting Brighter Children blogs. You can access it on the post (i.e. “Stone Soup” and food ideas when reading the book) and the 2-minute video related to this week’s posts on books and food! 💙More info here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/childrens-books-about-food/

❤JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH BY ROALD DAHL 💜Do

❤JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH BY ROALD DAHL 💜Do you know about Roald Dahl’s other “famous” book— “James and the Giant Peach?” ❤James Trotter’s parents get eaten by a wild rhinoceros so he’s sent to live with his two nasty aunts. One day he accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree—and strange things start to happen. One of the peaches grows to the size of a house and so do 3 insects—Grasshopper, Centipede, and Ladybug! 💜It takes just a snip of the stem and the peach rolls away and the adventure begins! ❤When I read this chapter book to my sons (and we read it several times)—we made peach cobbler (a recipe from my grandmother—recipe on post); peach ice cream, and slathered peach jam on our toast! 💜We also discussed important lessons learned from the book. This book is like a fairytale that teaches that eventually, good things can happen in our lives—so stay strong & courageous! ❤Last, here are some benefits of this delicious fruit: *Low in calories, high in vitamins
*Phytochemicals that protect us against disease
*Fights inflammation 💙What is your experience with this book? 💜More info here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/childrens-books-about-food/

❤CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY BY ROALD DAHL

❤CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY BY ROALD DAHL 💜Everyone has read the book or seen the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!” Roald Dahl is one of the greatest children’s authors of all time—and he has a fascinating background filled with lots of pain and difficulties (it’s probably why his stories are so amazing!) ❤Charlie Bucket—the hero of the story—wins a golden ticket and gets to go inside Mr. Willy Wonka’s famous candy factory. 💜You know the story—now have some fun with it with your kids/grandkids. Thanks to technology, you can make your own Willy Wonka candy bar with a real wrapper (download the template from my post). ❤Talk about the lessons learned from each of the children that go into Wonka’s candy factory—they all have issues we see when kids are given “things” and not a parent’s time. 💜More info here: https://goodparentingbrighterchildren.com/childrens-books-about-food/

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