The Mom I Want to Be

 Replace labels on your favorite drinks for a festive Halloween bash!

 

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• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup water
• 1 T oil
• 1 T powdered alum
• ½ cup salt
• 2 T vanilla
• food coloring

Mix all dry ingredients. Add oil and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until reaching the consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove from heat and add vanilla and food coloring. Divide into balls and work in color by kneading.

If you were a witch and could grant three wishes, what wishes would you grant?

 

What scares you? Why?

 

What are you going to be for Halloween and why?

 

Describe your halloween costume. Pass your journal to a friend and have them read it out loud. Could they guess what you were going to be?

 

Write a recipe for Witch’s Brew. What would you put in it? How would you mix it up? Who would drink it?

 

Describe your magic broomstick. What does it look like?

 

Draw a pumpkin growing on a vine.

 

Draw a jack o’ lantern.

 

Draw something bigger than a pumpkin.

 

Draw a haunted house….. what would be inside it?

 

What will you do on Halloween?  What will you dress up as?

 

Draw a spider.

• 1 lb jar sweetened applesauce
• 8 oz cinnamon

Drain 1# jar of SWEETENED applesauce overnight (you will be amazed at how much water seeps out!!) Add 8 ounces of cinnamon to this and mix together well. Pat into a ball, press hard to solidify and mix. Then pat out in 1 cup units onto wax paper, push to 1/4″ thickness and cut with cookie cutters. If desired, punch out hole in top with a straw to allow for hanging.  Great for Christmas ornaments, or to cut into heart shapes for Valentines Day.

You will need wax paper, Elmer’s glue, a black permanent marker, hole puncher, and black yarn.

 Squeeze about 2 tablespoons of glue onto a piece of wax paper. Pick the wax paper up and let the glue move around. You can move the glue in any direction you wish. When you have the shape you like, put the wax paper in a warm dry place to dry.

 When the glue has dried, peel the shape off of the wax paper. Punch a hole close to an edge. Make two round eyes and a round mouth with the marker. Cut a piece of yarn long enough so that the gluey ghost hangs comfortably around your neck. Tie a knot in the yarn.

• 6 slices white bread
• 6 tbsp. white glue
• ½ tsp. detergent or 2 tsp. glycerine
• Food coloring

Remove crusts from bread and knead with glue. Add either detergent or glycerine. Knead until no longer sticky. Separate into portions and add food coloring if desired. Shape and brush with equal parts of glue and water for a glossy coat. Allow to dry overnight to harden. Paint with acrylic paint. Seal with clear nail polish.

Why did Dracula’s mother give him cough medicine?

Because he was having a coffin fit.

 

What did Dr. Frankenstein get when he put a goldfish brain in the body of his dog?

I don’t know, but it is great at chasing submarines.

 

Why wasn’t there any food left after the monster party?’

Cos everyone was a goblin

 

Why did the vampire’s lunch give him heartburn?

It was a stake sandwich.

 

Dracula decided he need a dog, which breed did he choose?

A blood hound.

 

What would you call the ghost of a door-to-door salesman?

A dead ringer.

 

What do skeletons always order at a restaurant?

Spare ribs!

 

Who was the most famous French skeleton?

Napoleon bone-apart

 

Who won the skeleton beauty contest?

No body

What a nice way to celebrate the holiday season… have your family members and friends add leaves of thankfulness to the tree.

 

 

Bare Tree Branch

Tacky Glue

Yellow, Orange, Red, Green and Brown Construction Paper

Scissors

Container

Clothes Pins

Markers

 

Cut leaves out of construction paper. Have family members write what they are thankful for on the leaves. Glue the leaves to the branch using a clothespin to keep it in place until it dries. Keep extra leaves for visitors to add to your tree.