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Week of 10-23-07
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Topic for this week: How to Throw a Successful Kids' Themed Party
In this
week's Podcast, I interview Annette Yen of FunonTheArk.com
and chatted with her about
how easy it is to host a themed party for your child. You
can
listen to the entire
interview by clicking here or visiting our
site.
Last week, I interviewed Aurelia Williams about spending quality family time.
You can listen to the
archived show by clicking here.
NEWS
around the web:
Halloween
Tricks and Treats Giveaway Event for Moms - When: Oct.
29-31,
2007
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1st
Annual Holiday Season Kickoff - Let's jumpstart a
stress-free
Holiday Season
When: Nov. 19-20, 2007
HolidaySeasonKickOff.com
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Article: Halloween Crafts
The only bad
Halloween craft project is the Halloween craft project that takes too
long. You know the ones. The craft projects that have so many
steps that you’ve lost the attention of your kids before step
2. Give these easy Halloween craft ideas a try.
They’re short; they’re sweet; they’re fun and the end
results are spooktacular.
Antenna Characters
These adorable characters look great at the top of your automobile
antenna. Hey, if your house is dressed up for Halloween, why
shouldn’t your car? With various Halloween-themed colors of
flat fun foam (orange, black, white, green), draw a light outline of a
pumpkin, ghost, spider or Frankenstein head, approximately 4-inches
tall and 3-inches wide. Cut out the shapes and with a single hole
punch, punch two holes in each shape, one approximately one inch from
the top of the shape and another hole approximately one inch from the
bottom of the shape.
With glitter glue or permanent markers, decorate the shape with facial
features, an outline or anything you’d like. Allow to dry
thoroughly. Once dried, you can attach to your automobile antenna
by placing the antenna through the bottom hole from the back of the
shape to the front. Then place the antenna through the top hole,
front to back. The Antenna Character should be secure and should
withstand normal driving conditions.
Halloween Mosaics
Mosaic art using tiles is very popular nowadays. Kids can
duplicate this popular craft using construction paper instead of tiles
or glass.
Prior to gathering the children around the table, cut small squares of
various colors of paper, orange, red, blue, yellow, white, black,
green, etc.
On a piece of heavy stock, white paper, draw the outline of a pumpkin, Frankenstein or other Halloween character.
With a small dab of all-purpose glue on the back of each square, kids
can mosaic their way to a uniquely creative masterpiece that can be
framed and hung on the wall for many Halloween seasons to come.
Pumpkin Painting
In less than one hour, you and your child can create the most adorable
pumpkin craft ready to proudly display in your home. Pumpkin
Painting is the perfect activity for little goblins who aren’t
old enough to handle the jack-o-lantern carving duties.
With simple supplies like acrylic paints, markers, newspaper and
sealer, kids can paint whimsical, silly faces on their pumpkins.
Or they can paint their favorite cartoon character, Halloween motif or
harvest design. Painted pumpkins do not rot near as quickly as
carved pumpkins so it is much more economical to paint pumpkins rather
than carving them and it’s also much safer and more hands-on for
toddlers since there is no knife involved.
More
articles can be found at MommyCommunity.com
 
Recipe:
Halloween Sweets
Rice Cereal Halloween Treats
The regular, run of the mill rice cereal treat can be turned into a
sweet and unique Halloween treat by adding a few drops of orange food
coloring (or a combination of red and yellow) into the
marshmallow/butter mixture as it melts. When you cut the treats
into squares, add one candy corn to the top of each square.
Candy Corn Ice Cream Sundae
Into one cup of partially thawed vanilla ice cream, mix in one
tablespoon of candy corn (coarsely chopped) and one tablespoon of dry
roasted peanuts (coarsely chopped). Scoop into ice cream
bowl. Freeze until firm. When ready to serve, drizzle
caramel ice cream topping over the ice cream mixture, a dollop of
whipped cream and some additional candy corn and peanuts.
For
More easy to make recipes, visit HowToMakeEasyMeals.com
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