Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up – Oct 31/12

Posted on October 31, 2012 by happyhooligans

HAPPY HALLOWE’EN! And welcome to Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up: your chance to catch any of our crafts and activities that you may have missed the first time around!

We did a some super activities last week. As always, our activities are easy and inexpensive, and will provide your Hooligans with plenty of opportunities for learning and exploring, and countless hours of discovery and fun.

We conducted an IVORY SOAP EXPLOSION in our microwave,

and then turned the results into a big batch of GHOST MUD.

We used the corn kernels from our corn bin to make an awesome

CORN RUN with hoses and funnels.

And then we cranked up the spook-factor and kicked our Hallowe’en crafting into high-gear with these next projects:

SIMPLE HALLOWE’EN WREATH

HALLOWE’EN SENSORY BIN

SMOOSH AND STAMP PUMPKINS

and last but certainly not least, I shared

MY FAVOURITE PUMPKIN CARVING TRICK ever!And that’s your Wednesday Weekly Wrap-up for another week! Have a wonderful, safe and Happy Hallowe’en!

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Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up – Oct 24/12

Posted on October 24, 2012 by happyhooligans

It’s time for your Wednesday Weekly Wrap-Up!WThe weather here has been incredible this past week, so we’re still spending lots of time outdoors, hiking through the neighbourhood trails, and playing in the yard, but we’ve had a chance to work on a couple of super-cute and easy Hallowe’en projects.

If you missed them the first time around, here they are! You’re going to love how simple and inexpensive these are to make!

Monster Mobiles

Spooky Suncatchers

I also whipped up a batch of our ever-popular homemade water colour paints You probably have all of the ingredients in your kitchen cupboards!

Homemade Water Colour Paints

And on my facebook page, I shared these old favourites from past years.

Adorable Owls

Oreo Mummy Pops

Golf-ball Webs and Finger Spiders

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Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up – Oct 17/12

Posted on October 17, 2012 by happyhooligans

It’s time for our Wednesday Weekly Wrap-up: a chance for you to catch up on anything you may have missed in the previous week! I’ve been kind of busy behinds the scene, dealing with technical stuff, so there are a couple of projects from last week that I haven’t blogged about yet. I’ll share those over the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here’s what I DID put up on the blog last week!

Hooligans of all ages will love this painting technique, and these will add some homemade festive flair to your Thanksgiving dinner table:

Fall Napkin Holders (painted with credit cards)

Raid your craft cupboards and have the kiddos whip up a spook-tacular

Haunted Hodge-Podge

Last week’s Outdoor Play Party is growing strong. So far there are 25 inspiring outdoor activities linked up! Check out how we were investigating sunflowers and corn cobs, and share an outdoor play post of your own!

As part of my Happy Hooliwe’en Countdown, I shared these old favourites on my facebook page last week:

Ghost Mud

Wooly Webs and Pom-Pom Spiders

A Spooky Sensory Bin

And if you’re a “pinner”, you’ll to LOVE this! My kid-blogging cohorts and I put this together for your pinning pleasure! It’s a pin-board of all of OUR pin-boards, so you’ll have “stuff” that WE have pinned, right at your finger tips!

Happy Pinning!!

Well, that’s it for another week!

With Hallowe’en approaching, please check out my Hallowe’en Category if you’re looking for some spooky inspiration in the next couple of weeks!

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Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up (October 10/12)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by happyhooligans

It’s time for Wednesday’s Weekly Wrap-Up, where you get a chance to catch up on any of our crafts and activities that you may have missed in the previous week.

This past week we’ve been busy playing outdoors and exploring some of nature’s finest fall treasures (I’ll post about that later this week), so I have only one new craft to share with you today! But it’s a beauty!

As well, I’m featuring some of last year’s Hallowe’en crafts, which I’ve re-shard on my blog and my facebook page as part of our Happy Hooliwe’en Countdown.

As always, the crafts that we make here are easy and inexpensive, and you can simplify them for the youngest of crafters. We love to re-use and re-purpose, so most times, the materials can be found in your pantry cubpoards and recycling bin.

OK! Here we go!

We spent a couple of days last week, working on the following project. Painting the pasta was an activity in itself one day, and the following day we used it to create these awesome Hallowe’en wreaths!

Painted Pasta Boneyard Wreath

(I told you it was a beauty!!)

And now for the old favourites that I shared last week!

Monster Hands

Oreo Mummy Pops

Cotton Ball Ghosties

Hair Gel Sun Catchers

Paint Print Ghosts

and lastly, our goofy but loveable painted Jack-o-lanterns!

If that doesn’t put you in the mood for some good, old spooky crafting and creating, I don’t know what will!

If you’re looking for more our Hallowe’en crafts and activities, be sure to check out the Hallowe’en Category here on the blog!

And be sure to pop over and “LIKE” us on Facebook! You’ll find lots of stuff over there: posts shared from all of my favourite bloggers and lots of Hooligan action that doesn’t make it to the blog.