I love Halloween! I love the chance to create amazing treats and gifts for my children. I know that public schools don't all support candy and/or holidays, but in our family we also participate in extra curricular activities such as cheer. These types of activities also can give "eager to create mothers" another opportunity to have fun with Halloween. I recall about 6 years ago when we started cheer and my oldest child was about 4, some wonderful cheer moms decided to create a Halloween extravaganza for our "Tiny Tot Cheerleaders".
This was my first opportunity to surf the web for really unique ideas for the kids! I was also lucky because this year there was only 6 kids on the team to create for. The "food craft" that I created was an orange jack-o-lantern. It was a simple concept...but there was a lot of effort involved. You take an orange and cut the top off, then scrape out the insides, and then cut a face. I used mine as a pudding cup and filled them up with pudding. you could fill them up with fruit, candy, or even treats.
Another cute idea which is much less time-consuming would be the chocolate lollipops. You can buy the molds at any candy/cake supply store and the chocolate disks that you melt down are found pretty much anywhere including Walmart. These will go over very well whether it is at school or at an after school activity.
Once you are almost done with the cute crafts.... what are you going to put them in? The basket or container can be almost as important as what you put in them. For my daughter cheer team, I tied the whole gift together with a Halloween themed cheer bow. A little sparkle never hurt anyone. ;-)
WHAT TO WEAR.???
PART 2 Coming soon...
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