Need a quick and easy kid-friendly Halloween treat? These Oreo ghost cookie ghost snacks will fit the bill for preschool parties, school-aged parties, or a play date. Any Halloween party would be a little sweeter with these easy ghost cookies!
Ghost Cookie Halloween Treats
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I started with a package of Oreo cookies. Twist the tops off. Eat them.
Of course.
Grab a handful of M&MS minis. Sort out the brown ones. Eat the rest.
I mean, mom needs a little sugar too. To keep up with the kids. Right??!
Next is the fun part: Assembling the ghost cuties. I used a vegetable slicer to make a wavy bottom to the ghosts. Press the vegie slicer onto the white cookie cream and curve it a bit. Scrape the cookie cream off of the black cookie.
Eat it.
Notice a theme?
Press the m&ms onto the ghost faces. I only slightly pressed the candies and they stayed in place. If you are going to be transporting these cookies to a party, you might want to use a bit of icing to keep them in place. Use a large straw to press out a mouth from the cookies. Your ghosts are done!
Let us know if you make these cookies for a fun Halloween event.
Oh, how we love to plan birthday parties with fun themes for the cousins. There is a special little lady turning three soon, who is all about Princesses, sparkles, and glitter. This Princess Party was perfect for Baby Girl. From tiaras to pink rock candy, this party is perfect for princesses of all ages!
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Pretty Pink Princess Party ideas:
We were thrilled when we were asked to try out Betty Crocker’s online birthday party resource. There are so many themes to choose from with all of the details set for you. From cake ingredients to decorations, invitations and thank you notes, everything is planned out.
Once we picked our Princess theme, it was time to start on the details. This is the part I love. Planning all of the cute little extras makes this mama happy. I love to plan out decorations, food, and favors that match up with our party theme. The Betty Crocker party planner makes it easy to keep yourself organized and on task.
Guest list, oh yes. That is an important part. Invites going out a week before the party? Yep, that happens 😉
Princess Party Decor:
We decorated the house with banners and balloons. We used a dollar store table cloth to make big puffy decorations. Pink + Puffy= Princess. Obviously.
A few simple vases with pink shredded paper and princess party decor details to bring a little bit of enchantment to our centerpieces.
Every princess needs to quench her thirst with magic potion.
Princess Party Cake:
Oh, this cake was so much fun to make! Baby Girl loved all of the sparkle, and shine that we had going on here. I used the directions to make Betty Crocker’s easy crown cake to put this cake together.
Late night cake making antics can be found on our Instagram feed.
Pretty pink princess details.
I used neon food colors to make perfectly pink princess sugar cookies.
Princess Party Favors:
When I saw these Princess Party favor tags I knew we would use them to make a great thank you favor. Our little Princess loves books so a bookmark for all of her guests was the perfect way to say “Thanks”.
To make our DIY bookmarks, I used pink yarn to make pom poms. Wind the yarn around your fingers and tie in the center. Snip the loops of the yarn into a puff. Tie to a long strand of yarn. Tie the other end to the favor tag. Easy DIY bookmarks for all guests are done!
A book from the dollar bin made great easy (and cheap) party favors for the guests. The moms and dads loved that this was a non-candy party favor, too.
Princess Party Activity:
When our crew of family gets together, the cousins go wild playing together. I don’t like to plan a lot of games and activities at our parties, but there are lots of ideas if you need them. I created these open ended castle blocks for the cousins to build and imagine with.
There was lots of castle building and pretend play with these Princesses and Knights.
We had so much fun with our Princess party. Happy Birthday Baby Girl!
Fall is in the air! This time of year, the leaves are turning colors and there’s a crisp and crunchy-ness to everything. If you live in an area that has leaves turning and falling, you know. If you’re more south, you may have to create your own fall inspired leaf art. Either way, these fall tree crafts will entertain! The kids can stamp, print, and paint fall into your home with these four fun fall trees from the Share It Saturday features. Check them out, and be sure to share your creations with us on our Facebook page. We would love to see them!
We love using math concepts that are learned in school into playful activities at home. Learning through play is a great way to strengthen concepts learned in the classroom. We used apples to count, add, and learn one day, all in the great outdoors!
Apple math activity for Kindergartners and Preschoolers
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We used Sidewalk Chalk and a dice for this activity. I took the kids outside to the sidewalk one afternoon and drew a bunch of apple shapes. We were ready to play.
Note–you could also draw any shape for this activity: pumpkins, smiley faces, geometric shapes, simple houses…any thing would work.
To play the game, I had the kids roll the dice. They had to count the dots on the dice, or simply look at the dots to determine how many dots there were. Big Sister did a lot of dice activities last year in Kindergarten so she was able to glance at the dice and know how many dots there were. Little Guy counted the dots. This is a great early math skill for preschool aged kids.
Once they counted the dots on the dice, I had them color in the same number of apples to correspond to the number of dots.
We used the squares of our sidewalk to wok on Kindergarten math concepts that Big Sister learned towards the end of her school year. Some of the squares had two apples drawn on them, and others had four or more.
This was a great opportunity to review addition.
She added the apples to make the total match the number of dots on the dice.
Little Guy counted along with Big Sister to count the total number of apples filled in.
Coloring in the apples with the chalk requires use of the small muscles of the hand. The sidewalk surface is resistive and the area they colored in was small. This required precision to stay in the lines. Not to mention, coloring in all of those apples really strengthened the hands!
This was such a fun way to review old math areas for the new first grader and introduce new math concepts to the preschooler. Like this math activity? Try a few of these ideas:
This time of year, it’s about schedules. School schedules, evening activities, weekend family time, homework, and busyness! We pulled together a few must-make recipes from The Wonderful Wednesday blog hop that all use the slow cooker! Crock pot cooking is the way to go this time of year when the weather cools and comfort food sounds so good. Pull out these ingredients in the morning before the kids get up, throw dinner together in the crock pot and go about your day. Dinner is done!
Preschool Book Club is back with another great book and activity. This time, we’re exploring Michael Rosen’s “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. This book is SO much fun. The detailed directions, the descriptive adventures, and the catchy phrases make it a hit with Toddlers and Preschoolers. My crew can recite this book from heart after reading it over and over again.
What better way to celebrate a fun book than a cute snack??! We made bear hunt puppets to go along with the exploring family in the book. These edible puppets will make the story telling fun (and tasty)!
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Edible Puppets
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Start by putting a dab of peanut butter (or other butter) on the end of the pretzel stick.
Try not to eat it.
Stick the teddy bear grahams onto the peanut butter. Done.
Easy cuteness.
Show the kids how the bear goes over, under, around, and through as you read the book. This is a great way to talk about spatial relationships while you discuss the family and bear’s journey through tall grass, mud, water, and forest.
Of course Baby Girl must do as big brother does.
We had fun making the bear puppets climb, jump, run, spin. Even though it wasn’t exactly like the book…Little Guy had his bear doing ninja skills.
Of course.
We added a bowl of popcorn for a bit more snack time. The popcorn became snow that the bears had to run through.
We enjoyed our bear puppet snacks. The Preschool Book club will be back in two weeks with another great book for kids. You can see all of the other books we’ve done here:
This fire truck craft was a given after we made our easy shapes school bus craft. We love looking for trucks when we are out and about (what Toddler or Preschooler doesn’t??) This fire truck craft was easy to do and perfect for little fingers to build. We love the puzzle-like craftiness of this truck idea. Fire safety week would be a great time to make this craft…but if you’ve got kids like mine, it’s fun any time of year!
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Items needed to make a fire truck craft:
cardstock in red, yellow, and white scissors We love our fiscars for kid use! Glue
We started with basic shapes to make our fire truck: large rectangle, square, 3 black circles (trace a bottle cap), three smaller white circles, white square, 8-10 black squares, long white rectangle for the ladder.
Older children can work on cutting these shapes. Cutting from card stock is a great way to work on scissor skills, as it’s a bit more sturdy than printer paper or construction paper. The increased resistance provides more input when making snips with scissors.
For the Toddlers and preschoolers, be sure to work on shape identification. Point out the different shapes, the way that we know what they are (circles are one line and curve all around; rectangles have two long lines and two short lines with four corners).
These little fingers couldn’t wait to get started!
We started building our fire truck.
Count the squares as you build the fire truck ladder.
I cut a swirly curved shape for a fire hose. Our fire truck turned out looking pretty cute and a great way to start talking about fire safety during Fire Safety Month in October. Happy crafting!
We love a a great book. What makes a good book even better, si a fun craft or activity to go along with the book. Kids remember the activity long after the book has gone back to the library and will even pull out a, “Hey mom, remember when we made that snack to go with that book about buttons?” I love when we see a particular book again on the shelves at the library and Little Guy says, “Hey! we did a craft for that one!” We pulled some fun features from Share It Saturday this week…all about literacy for kids and activities, crafts, sensory bins, and learning that goes along with great books.
Today’s craft is a Jack Be Nimble craft based on the nursery rhyme, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. If you are looking for an easy nursery rhyme crafts based on development, this craft supports fine motor skills and scissor skills.
Jack Be Nimble Craft
I love this Jack be Nimble craft because it has so many components that are the building blocks for developing motor skills in kids. You’ll find:
Cutting simple shapes
Cutting straight lines and curved lines
Tearing paper
Crumbling paper
Gluing the craft pieces in order (direction following)
This craft is one of those kids crafts that is project based, but there are components that can be created by the child with a process-based format. You can have the child add their own spin on things and offer art and craft materials and just let the process go.
The Nursery Rhyme craft and activities series is in full swing and we’ve had some great ideas shared for some classic nursery rhyme favorites.
Today’s kids craft is one of our favorite Nursery Rhymes. We’ve loved this short little rhyme since we started book babies at the library years back.
It is a fun rhyme to recite and always brings a smile to my kids’ faces.
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over the candlestick.
Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Quick Craft for Toddlers and Preschoolers
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To make a Jack Be Nimble craft, you’ll need:
cardstock in white, another color (we used blue) and a background sheet (we used green)
Start by cutting the simple shapes you’ll need to make the candlestick craft. Older kids can work on scissor skills to cut these simple shapes.
Cutting from card stock is a great way to work on scissor accuracy because the resistance is greater than regular printer paper. This allows children to slow their snipping speed and better accuracy when cutting along lines.
Cut a semi-circle from colored paper and a rectangle from white paper.
Tear a square of each color of tissue paper.
5. Glue the semi-circle onto the paper. This is a great opportunity to talk about shapes with your toddler or preschooler.
6. Glue the rectangle on top of the semicircle.
7. Draw a flame shape with the glue.
8. Have your child tear small pieces of the tissue paper.
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for this activity. I took the kids outside to the sidewalk one afternoon and drew a bunch of apple shapes. We were ready to play.
(although you could use any type of butter or even icing)
in red, yellow, and white
We love our fiscars for kid use!
(in red, yellow, and orange)
