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Notes on preparations for Halloween 2009
By Jeremiah | October 21, 2009 | 3 comments / Join the conversation!
Z disguises herself as a stick.
Are you ready to enjoy Halloween with your children? Here are a few Halloween announcements and notes from our family.
Z will be dressing up this year as a fairy riding a unicorn. It's a part-handmade, part DIY hack costume that makes use of the horse from her ladybug-cowgirl costume two years back and may end up incorporating elements from her hippo-princess costume last year.
We put up our Halloween decorations last night. These are all internal, as we live outside town and won't see any trick-or-treaters at our place. That means indoor lights (red/orange/yellow LED bulbs and a string of skeleton lights) and the decoration of a small purple fake Christmas tree with homemade Halloween ornaments (it also gets pulled out for Mardi Gras). As we decorated the tree, Z proudly noted each of the ornaments she had made, and asked which of us had made each of the others.
We've rounded up dozens of Halloween giveaways on PRIZEY. Most are still live, and users are adding last-minute ones to a rolling list. Take a look.
Jenna points us to a few great Halloween kids' books in an early Mini Media Mogul.
We're loving the DVD edition of A Very Brave Witch, which Scholastic sent to us at our request. The reason we asked for it, actually, was that it included the 1978 animated version of Tomi Ungerer's The Three Robbers, which you can see, for the moment at least, right here:
The premise of A Very Brave Witch, if you aren't familiar with it from the book by Alison McGhee and Harry Bliss, is that a witch has to be very brave to encounter non-witchy humans and their non-witchy ways. You can still get the book or the DVD on Amazon in time for Halloween. Or, you can put on a performance of your own.
Chronicle Books also has a sale in their own store - 30% off Halloween books with free shipping, through October 31. (That's an affiliate link there - we've joined their affiliate program to offer advertising on our sites, because we like so many of the kids' books they put out.)
The Consumer Products Safety Commission has some tips on keeping your kids safe on Halloween.
We love Halloween as the first of a fun-filled holiday season for kids and adults. We want to know how you're spending it. What will your child be dressing up as this year? Any Halloween traditions or events you're particularly looking forward to?
Halloween at our house
Z will be dressing up this year as a fairy riding a unicorn. It's a part-handmade, part DIY hack costume that makes use of the horse from her ladybug-cowgirl costume two years back and may end up incorporating elements from her hippo-princess costume last year.
We put up our Halloween decorations last night. These are all internal, as we live outside town and won't see any trick-or-treaters at our place. That means indoor lights (red/orange/yellow LED bulbs and a string of skeleton lights) and the decoration of a small purple fake Christmas tree with homemade Halloween ornaments (it also gets pulled out for Mardi Gras). As we decorated the tree, Z proudly noted each of the ornaments she had made, and asked which of us had made each of the others.
Win something Halloweeny
We've rounded up dozens of Halloween giveaways on PRIZEY. Most are still live, and users are adding last-minute ones to a rolling list. Take a look.
Great kids' media for Halloween
Jenna points us to a few great Halloween kids' books in an early Mini Media Mogul.
We're loving the DVD edition of A Very Brave Witch, which Scholastic sent to us at our request. The reason we asked for it, actually, was that it included the 1978 animated version of Tomi Ungerer's The Three Robbers, which you can see, for the moment at least, right here:
The premise of A Very Brave Witch, if you aren't familiar with it from the book by Alison McGhee and Harry Bliss, is that a witch has to be very brave to encounter non-witchy humans and their non-witchy ways. You can still get the book or the DVD on Amazon in time for Halloween. Or, you can put on a performance of your own.
Chronicle Books also has a sale in their own store - 30% off Halloween books with free shipping, through October 31. (That's an affiliate link there - we've joined their affiliate program to offer advertising on our sites, because we like so many of the kids' books they put out.)
Stay safe
The Consumer Products Safety Commission has some tips on keeping your kids safe on Halloween.
We love Halloween as the first of a fun-filled holiday season for kids and adults. We want to know how you're spending it. What will your child be dressing up as this year? Any Halloween traditions or events you're particularly looking forward to?
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What a great post! I love how imaginative Z is about her costumes (my girls, on the other hand, have both decided to be witches). Thanks for your always awesome information!!
Her costume sounds like a great idea! My son (3.5) will be a dragon- the friendly kind (he says). This is based on the dragon wings we bought him at the RenFair last year- so then I had to come up with a dragon costume! Compliments of some shiny fabric, a blue shirt and pants, and some time on my sewing machine, he’s going to be one cute dragon! But one thing- we wanted to paint his face a little. But after looking at the labels on the halloween face paints, I got a bit nervous. So I bought some Neutrogena blue eye shadow and silver eye shadow, and will just use those to paint a few stripes on his cheeks. At least they’re MADE for the face and hypoallergenic, and will wipe off easily with a makeup remover wipe :)
We’ve been loving that DVD of The Three Robbers, too. After watching the video a hundred times, we bought Olive the book. Last night I read it, and Olive read it along with me, totally memorized. Thanks for the Three Robbers shadow puppet video on Punnybop!
And, Olive’s going to be the tooth fairy for Halloween, and I’m going to be a tooth. Good times. Happy Halloween!