During this time of the year, many neighborhoods and county park systems offer many fun and festive Halloween like activities. Our town offers a spookey "haunted house lantern tour" each year and the park system offered anything from "The creatures of the night" hayride {which sadly, we missed due to rain}, and fun crafts like making this Halloween candy bowl, {which we did not miss!}
I so enjoyed my special "afternoon out" to paint this bowl with my big boy. We used watered down colors for the background, then the teacher taught the class how to use stamps to imprint the design onto the bowl. We could barely wait for the end of the week wehn we couold pick up our fired pottery!
Amazed by what a wonderful job Tobin did on his bowl, I was reminded of crafts that we had done in years past, before he was old enough to participate in any classes. I helped him make this little ghost when he was just 1 year old by using white paint to make an upside down hand print on a piece of black paper. We only made one...and a few others from grandparents, but seeing it now makes me think that if we had made several of them adn cut them out, it would have made an adorable garland; strung together.
This was another baby friendly project made the same year. I just let Tobin make some hand prints, finger paint, whatever you like, on an orange piece of paper. When it was dry, I did the rest of the crafting in drawing around what he had made to make the picture that resembled a pumpkin. I don't think the finished product is as much of the focus during these early years, as is the process of experiencing paints and spending time with an adult that loves you. I know that Tobin and I both enjoy looking at these paintings and still enjoy being creative together.
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