Halloween Craft With HERSHEY'S BOO BLVD. + HUGE Giveaway (20 Win!)
2:45 PM Posted by Desi @ Wee Share
In less than six short weeks, Halloween will be here! At my home, we love Halloween. It is filled with crisp fall air, fun costumes, and lots of tasty treats to enjoy.
In past years, we have enjoyed every Halloween as a family. Darren and I both like to take Raileigh trick-or-treating and watch her face fill with delight as she collects candy from houses in the neighborhood.
This year is going to be different, though. Darren has to travel for work on Halloween and isn't going to be here to enjoy the festivities with us. So, I want to make sure that we do a lot of Halloween activities leading up to the big day so that he feels included in the fun as well.
I have a lot of Halloween crafts planned for us to do. Kid-friendly crafts are a great family activity any season of the year. Now, I have heard several other parents say that they really don't enjoy craft time with their children. If you fall into this category, let me offer a few tips to help make this experience more enjoyable for everyone:
- Don't be a perfectionist. This is so hard for me, as I try and make every project that I do as perfect as possible. News flash-- your child probably won't be able to make the craft you are doing completely perfect. That's okay. Often times, when crafting with children, it is more about the experience than the end result.
- Choose a project on the appropriate level for your child. It can be frustrating for everyone if you choose to make something that is far too difficult (or even way below) what your little one is capable of. For example, if your child has not used scissors much, then you don't want to choose a craft that involves a lot of intricate cutting.
- Have everything together before you call your child to participate. If you tell your child it's time to make something fun and then try to gather supplies, it can get frustrating. Chances are that your child with get impatient as you rush around trying to get everything together. You will get frustrated and so will your child-- and you haven't even began the craft yet!
- Enjoy yourself. Children grow fast and before you know it, they will be too busy hanging out with friends, going to football games, and enjoying other activities to sit down for family craft time. So, enjoy this time while you can!
Halloween Play Dough
Supplies:
- 1 1/2 cups of water
- 1 1/2 cups of flour
- 3/8 cup salt
- 3 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 1/2 tbsp. vegetable or canola oil
- food coloring
- large pot
- mixing spoon
Instructions:
Dump the water, flour, salt, cream of tartar, and oil into your pot. Mix together really well, getting out as many of the clumps as you can. Add food coloring, a drop or two at a time until you are happy with the color.
I let Raileigh help with everything UNTIL this point. Older kids could probably handle stirring over a hot stove, but I am just not ready to go there with Raileigh yet.
Heat your stove to medium heat and put the pot on. You will want to stir your mixture constantly. I mean that. Don't stop stirring.
Pretty soon, the mixture will start to become a big clumpy glob of play dough. Stir until you have one big glob and as you move it around the pot it kind of cleans of an residual play dough off the edges of the pot.
Let the dough cool for about a minute until it isn't scalding hot. Drop your glob on the counter and start kneading it using your hands. As long as you've let the dough cool, this is definitely a step the kids can help with!
Pretty soon, your dough will be ready to play with!
A special note about storage: I am not sure how long this play dough stays good for. I have kept batches for several months and they have been good. I store our play dough by wrapping it in plastic wrap, then putting it in plastic container with a lid. These steps help it not to dry out and stay fresh.
Since we made fun, festive Halloween colors, of COURSE we had to make a few pumpkins! REESE'S PIECES work great to make pumpkin faces!
This play dough can keep our entire family occupied for hours. Seriously-- who doesn't love to get their hands into a fresh batch of play dough?
If you would like some more Halloween craft ideas to share with your family, I invite you to check out my Halloween Crafts Pinterest Board. So far, I have 50 different Halloween craft ideas pinned for you to enjoy!
Before I go, I have to share some yummy Halloween treats that we enjoyed while playing with our play dough. After all, it is always more fun to Celebrate With HERSHEY'S! Have you seen these all-new CADBURY SCREME EGGS? Yep-- they are the same taste you enjoy with a traditional CADBURY CREME EGGS, but these candies are all decked out for Halloween! The foil wrapper is done up in festive seasonal colors. Inside you'll find the milk chocolate shell you love, plus a white and green fondant center.
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September 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM
We always carve pumpkins and make halloween cupcakes!
September 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM
We always make popcorn gloves to give out to trick-or-treaters
September 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM
I remember being a cheerleader with my husband as a male cheerleader one year. It was a fun costume.
September 20, 2012 at 6:31 PM
I always remember trick or treating with my kids and their friends, my son had the same batman costume on for about 5 years!
twinkle at optonline dot net
September 20, 2012 at 8:54 PM
We love dressing up!
September 20, 2012 at 8:56 PM
I love carving pumpkins with the kids. They are so funny to watch while they play with the goo from inside the pumpkin.
I totally could have used your Pinterest board last week when we had to find a craft to take to my son's after school care. We already found a project now, thogh.
September 20, 2012 at 10:34 PM
My son is almost 4, so he's only on his second year of trick-or-treating. We go out early, and come home for a pizza and candy dinner. Our best/worst meal of the year!
September 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM
I love dressing up... and definitely the candy! eclairre(At)ymail(Dot)com
September 20, 2012 at 10:53 PM
when I was a kid my fav costume was when I was a pirate!
ykatrina at hotmail dot com
September 20, 2012 at 10:54 PM
We make reese's rice crispy treats every year.
September 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM
We always had a huge trick or treating night when we were kids!
radeeolover at yahoo dot com
September 21, 2012 at 8:45 AM
My birthday is just a couple weeks before Halloween, so we always spend the day at a local orchard or farm and pick up pumpkins to carve later. Plus we have two children whose birthdays are right near then, so there are usually family photos in the leaves of our favorite park to mark them being one year older too!
September 21, 2012 at 9:09 AM
We always go to this really nice neighborhood and go trick or treating. We also go to the library for their Halloween party!
September 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM
My favorite memory...when I was in 4th grade I decided to have a Halloween party, made invitations and passed them out to my class mates. Then I forgot about it (including telling my parents about my brilliant idea) until the parent of a friend called to ask what time the party was that day...What party? My dad whipped up an awesome party!
September 21, 2012 at 10:56 AM
I just love trick or treating with my kids!
hungrymonkey09 at gmail dot com
September 21, 2012 at 11:02 AM
We love dressing up and we always have chili for dinner on Halloween!
Lexijo213 at yahoo dot com
September 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM
We love to decorate together whilst watching kid friendly halloween movies
September 21, 2012 at 5:43 PM
After we were done trick or treating we would go out for pizza as a family. Patricia
September 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM
I loved gettng the kids dressed in their costumes when they were young. They were always so excited for tricker treating.
September 21, 2012 at 11:50 PM
our tradition is to have a pizza party with the neighbors before heading out to trick or treat
September 22, 2012 at 2:30 AM
Carving pumpkins and roasting the seeds a few days before Halloween.
September 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM
dressing up and seeing the little ones debbie jackson
djackson1958 at hotmail dot com
September 22, 2012 at 11:21 AM
We always give the kids a party including relay races with ghoul and smokey witches brew!
September 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM
Our tradition is putting up a family graveyard in our front yard. We put funny ways that we died depending on what we like to do. I like to crochet, so one year I died by being entangled in a giant ball of yarn.
September 22, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Every year we make halloween-themed brownies! It's so much fun!
September 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM
I have some ODD kids.. they have NEVER liked Halloween, its so sad because hubby and I love it! Growing up it was always such a fun holiday, we would get together with neighbors and set up a haunted house, everyone would always talk about it and expect it yearly.
September 23, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Carving Pumpkins with my kids. We have so much fun doing it ♥
September 24, 2012 at 9:31 AM
We enjoy taking the kids trick or treating
kellywcuATyahooDOTcom
September 25, 2012 at 2:36 AM
We always carve pumpkins!
September 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Trick or Treating is the funnest.
September 25, 2012 at 3:01 PM
We like making handmade decorations every year
September 26, 2012 at 12:15 PM
We always make our rounds at the nursing home!
September 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Last year we made Bones using Pretzels, Mini Marshmallows and White Chocolate. They were a huge hit.
September 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM
I enjoy decorating the house ... sad that my kids are outgrowing trick-or-treating, but I still enjoy making and giving cute trick-or-treat treats to my 14 piano students :) Thank you for such a fun prize!
September 26, 2012 at 9:37 PM
We always have an annual halloween party for our playgroup with a potluck and craft for the kids.
September 27, 2012 at 3:43 AM
I'm not much for halloween.When my daughter was little I took her out. Sometimes I go out with my neices.
Thanks for the yummy giveaway!
September 27, 2012 at 8:12 AM
we like to make special treats for my grandson to take to school for all the kids in his class
September 28, 2012 at 4:48 AM
a tradition is painting little pumpkins
September 28, 2012 at 4:35 PM
The street I grew up on Tybee Island, Lewis, was nicknamed Trick-or-Treat Street because all of the island kids spent Halloween there. We took my daughter there every years, too!
Terri P
pr4gatheringroses AT gmail DOT com
September 28, 2012 at 4:58 PM
the 'great pumpkin' visits our house on halloween when the boys are done trickortreating. there is a small gift for each of them. something my mom did for me growing up.
*kelly
kelly-tillotson@hotmail.com
September 29, 2012 at 8:16 AM
We always enjoyed carving pumpkins!
Nancy
allibrary (at) aol (dot) com
September 29, 2012 at 3:19 PM
After my kids trick or treat we come home and have apple cider and powdered donuts. It was something my Mom always did when I was little so I carried on the tradition. It also gives the kids something to do why I check their candy.
Busytennesseemom@charter.net
September 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM
We always take my son to my sister's house for Halloween. Then my nephew will walk with us to trick or treat in their neighborhood.
September 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM
One of my favorite memories is dressing up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast in a gorgeous dress that my Grandma made for me.
September 29, 2012 at 9:59 PM
I loved the time I dressed up as the Empire State Building with King Kong. I made the costume myself and everyone loved it.
September 29, 2012 at 10:53 PM
My fondest Halloween memory is when my mom made all of our treat bags out of muslin. She almost always made our costumes but I still have the bag she made me. :)
September 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM
We always carve pumpkins and cook the seeds!
September 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM
When I was little, my dad always made our costumes - and he was into construction. One year, I was a Hershey's Kiss - the bottom was a hula hoop! He used chicken wire to form the outside and then covered it with foil! He sure loved coming up with our costumes!
~liz n.
September 30, 2012 at 10:36 PM
I remember dressing up as a robot one year - flashing lights for thank yous, slot to insert candy. That was fun.
October 1, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Well, I loved it when I dressed up as an astronaut once upon a time... and we didn't carve them, but decorated pumpkins too. :)
Lois
October 1, 2012 at 7:53 AM
We bring our kids to my moms house and all the cousins go trick or treating. After we bob for apples and trade candy. thanks
carolwegs at gmail dot com
October 1, 2012 at 7:58 PM
going to a friends birthday halloween party
October 1, 2012 at 10:51 PM
When I was about 6/7 years old me and mom dressed my older brother as a girl with makeup, hell, and in one of my moms dresses, he went trick or treating with me the entire night dressed like that with his pillow case haha
Thanks for the great giveaway!
October 2, 2012 at 12:47 AM
we go to the local church and then go trick or treating
October 2, 2012 at 6:36 PM
my daughter is finally at an age where she can enjoy halloween, i used to love going trick or treating with my brothers
christinejessamine at hotmail dot com
October 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM
We decorate the house, dress up and trick or treat
October 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM
We enjoyed giving out the latest Mars Snickers candy in a SheSpeaks promotion a couple years ago. Kids were lining up the street :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
October 3, 2012 at 1:41 PM
We carve a jack-o-lantern together
lanalbradstream(at)yahoo(dot)com
October 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM
I love it when we carve pumpkins -- my husband helps, so it's one craft we do together!!
October 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM
We always go to the pumpkin farm for my birthday and then come home and carve pumpkins.
October 3, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Making homemade Halloween costumes for my kids.
October 3, 2012 at 10:22 PM
When I was little, my parents would take me to the pumpkin patch every year!