Pumpkin Crafting

Just a little snapshot of our fun activity for the day. I am trying to find fun Halloween crafts to do for our preschool party next week. I'm teaching that day, so we did a dry run of a cute project we saw in FamilyFun magazine.

1. For each pumpkin, cut one circus peanut in half. Cut a small piece from a green gumdrop and trim away the sugar coating so you have a dot of the sticky inside. Use this piece as glue to stick the two halves of the peanut together, bottom to bottom.

2. Roll the pumpkin in the palms of your hands to make it round. Press lightly; you don't want to compress the candy too much.

3. Use a skewer or toothpick to poke a hole in the top of the pumpkin and draw lines down the sides. Cut another small piece from the green gumdrop and roll it in granulated sugar, molding it into a slightly conical stem shape with your fingers. Insert the stem into the hole on the top of the pumpkin.

The kids had lots of fun.

Here is what Ben came up with:

This is what mom made:

Maddie could only come up with this: (it's hard to focus with all that candy around to distract you...)