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Halloween preparation with kids


I wondered for a long time how to headline my post but I could not choose anything from various options, so there will be such a simple title :)
Today's post will be about Halloween, which takes place every year on October 31 and what we have prepared for the Halloween with my child. The post will be short, I will show you my photos of different simple ideas that you can do with your own hands.




Halloweeen style clementines

Since I like to do very simple but interesting things with my own hands, which can be shared with others, I wanted my kid to bring something to the kindergarten and share with his group mates. Since we don’t eat sweets, I asked the teacher if it was ok to bring mandarins to children. They are perfect at any point: they look like little pumpkins and children like them.
I picked up a black marker and began to draw various faces. Of course I am not an artist at all but children liked it and they gladly ate them :)

I wanted to make pumpkin muffins for teachers but they remained raw inside .. I had to throw them away and make my classic muffins, which turned out delicious as always. Recipe: muffins


Jack-o'-lantern

Since I knew that we would not eat a pumpkin in the near future (we still had one in the fridge), I didn’t see the point of carving this pumpkin and just drew some funny face on it :) it looks pretty cool!


Cups

If you want to arrange a themed dinner for your family or plan a party, draw scary faces on transparent disposable cups and pour something of bright color (orange, green etc.) on them. Quick, easy and interesting!






Decorations

Since we just started to celebrate Halloween, we have not yet collected a lot of things but those that are collected:

Pumpkin bag for snacks from AliExpress, link: a bag
Toppers (5 pcs) for food bought from AliExpress, link: toppers
Trick or treat bag bought from H&M kids department few years ago.


So simple! And all this can be done together with your kids, they will also like all these decorations :) I am saving up ideas for the next Halloween and I hope to share it with you then. I hope that you have found something interesting for yourself that you can do with your family or friends :)

Wishing you an amusing Halloween,
V.O.

How to make number 1 for your baby's first Birthday



Hi there!

I'm on blogging wave again and starting my blog posts with DIY. My dear baby boy became 1 year old yesterday and I wanted to make something by myself for him. While my handicraft talent is not really good, I decided to start with something easy: DIY nr 1 from tissue paper! And today we will see how to make it and what do you need to prepare for it. Let me say right away that making it is not difficult to make but it takes a lot of time (if you would like to make it in 1 day, then you should consider few hours for it).

What do you need:

✔️ cardboard box
✔️ scissors
✔️ pencil
✔️ ruler
✔️ eraser
✔️ hot glue or PVA glue
✔️ stapler
✔️ tissue paper in wished colors

That's all! Size of the number is up to you (but consider that bigger size will take you more time to make, so you need to start asap), I didn't want big one (mine is ), but if you would like to make bigger one, then you can cut out few parts of number and glue together. Also I used myself hot glue, while I didn't have PVA glue in home and it dries up faster. I used tissue in two colors: blue and white. The blue ones were big, so I cut them in two pieces.
So how to make nr 1? Let's see!

Take the cardboard box and draw nr 1 on it using pencil and ruler. If you mess up, then use eraser.


When drawing is finished, then cut it out with scissors.

Base is ready! Let's start with tissue paper flowers. Take napkin and start to fold it from this side where it's closed (it's only 1 side usually).

When folded, then put it in half and seal it with stapler downside.

Now unfold all the tissue paper layers. If it comes out that one side of layer is closed, then cut it as shown on picture or pull gently with you own hands. Voila, flowers are ready!

Take the glue and put it on flower (downside) and glue it on number base. I started from the bottom and before that I checked up how I will put all of the flowers. Just do it as your heart says, won't mistake :)

That simple it is! Of course you can make harder version of this number if you have time and willingness. I got away with simple version and I'm happy with it :)

If you have any questions or offers, do not hesitate to contact me.

Wishing an inspiration,
V.O.