Halloween Crafts: Bat Pictures and Boo Garland!

         The boys told me that we just HAD to decorate for Halloween this year. Normally I don't really do too much holiday decorating, but since they insisted, I went searching for a few things we could make to put up. The first thing I found was these bats: http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2008/10/im-going-batty.html . Basically you trace your handprint, draw a bat head shape, cut them all out, then paste them on some orange paper so we get the Halloween colors going on. Then they picked out some googly eyes and I cut some little red fangs and they glued those on. Voila! Halloween bat!
       Next we made some Boo Garland. I got the idea here: http://peppermintplum.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghostie-boo-garland.html. I have some white yarn we keep around for crafts, so the only other things we needed were kleenexs, cotton balls and a permanent marker, which we had too! Basically you take a few cotton balls, wrap the kleenex around it to look like a "ghost", then tie the string around it to make "garland". We made sort of an assembly line and they helped me make some of the ghost faces too. They were so excited about everything we had to hang it all up right away and now they're asking to make more! Eep! Back to Pinterest I go... haha!