Halloween fun

The girls and I decided to do a fun, new (to us) Halloween craft one afternoon after school. It never occurred to me that we would be doing this amid homework, dinner, my squeezing in a workout, and gymnastics. But never mind that, a CRAFT is coming our way. My girls, especially Grace will absolutely never say no to one of those.  In fact, she will create a fantastic new idea, i.e. cutting paper, putting it on paper, and viola! this has to go to her teacher or else.


I actually got this idea from my mom, a retired kindergarten teacher. I altered a few things and of course, the way my life runs, it isn't completely finished, but you can imagine the finishing touches.  Here is a few pictures of our adventure for Halloween this year:

We grabbed two bags of white rice, a couple boxes of dye and big ziploc bags. Though I wish that were the case, we were out of the big bags and had to use sandwich bags, 4 total. Please put your pets away since squeezing and shaking of said bags will erupt with uncooked rice.
My ongoing preparedness continuing, to get the actual black and orange, you actually need EVERY color in the dye box. No problem, my specialty is getting things done, even if that means calling my neighbor and asking for ingredients, which I did not do in this case. I love spontaneity.

We actually needed one color I didn't have, blue, but I had the neon colors, which kind of substituted. In the end, it worked out. Check out the back of your dye boxes for orange (or sunset in our case) and black. Put the white rice in LARGE bags, I promise, it will work better, shake or press with your fingers. Pour into mason jars. There are many different ways to decorate. I plan on going to our backyard and snipping some mum flowers and putting in jars. We shall see how that works.

Updated photo with mums, a little sunny, but you get the idea. Obviously, since there is no water, they won't last long. You can always substitute fake flowers.