If you're a mom like me, you are always looking for ways to keep your kids entertained. 
My kids turn boredom into chaos, and I prefer to shut that "sheet" down as quickly as possible. 
So - We craft! 
Painting outside, blowing giant bubbles, chalk on the driveway, whatever it takes to keep the chaos at bay. 

For Halloween, the kids LOVE to holiday oriented art.

Below are a few crafts the kids and I have done so far this year.

Dollar Tree has these pumpkins. For $1 each you grab a pumpkin, bring it home, and have the kids paint it. They are currently sitting on our dining room table in all their gourdy-glory. 
It's cheap and they love to paint. 

*BONUS INFO*
Turns out these pumpkins are hallow! 
I painted one myself and plan on turning it into a spooky succulent vase. 

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Lollypop + Tissue Paper + Ribbon = Ghost!

I help draw on the faces (because my kids and 4 & 2 years old and sharpies are NOT allowed in their hands)
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What I love more than anything right now is the ready made sugar cookie dough you can buy from stores now. No matter how hard I tried, I could never master the art of the elusive 
​"sugar cookie". 
Buy some Halloween cookie cutters, some premade dough, and get to cutting! The kids will love it and the prep work and clean up for parents is essentially null! 

Life is batter with cake.
And cake puns bake me smile. 

In keeping with the baking crafts, Walmart currently has these little gems for sale! 
How fun would it be to make little monster cupcakes with your little monsters?!

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Michaels makes it impossible to walk out of their store without buying crafts for your kids. 
These were already cheap, but then they were also on sale, so OF COURSE I had to buy them. 
Add a little paint (or markers or whatever you have on hand) and voila! Crafty kid fun! 

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I tried to make sure I made lots of keepsakes for the grandparents and myself when the girls were younger. This is one and its so easy and cheap. 
I wish Dollar Tree had some kind of a membership club or point system because I am sure I would be a Platinum member. 
This and other plates were purchased at Dollar Tree along with a small thing of black paint. 
Dip some little chunky feet into the paint, mush them on there, and then decorate for a cute little keepsake. 

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Lastly, rock painting is fun for any holiday. 
My little ghouls had a great time painting the rocks and then I had just as much fun helping them finish with decorating. 
I mean, come on. How cute is that little candy corn rock?! 
Candy corn in general is EW, but on a rock, it's really cute! 

I hope you and your little monsters have just as much fun as we do Halloween crafting. 

Thanks for reading!

-Jamie

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I have a slight addiction to Rae Dunn. I managed (barely) to keep myself to only two Rae Dunn Halloween items this year and I love them both sooooooo much - as I do all of her things! 

A newly added tradition (which started last year) are these flippin' bats!
I LOVE THEM! 
They are incredibly cheap on Amazon and they don't take the paint off of your walls. 
We will continue to use them every single year to decorate. 
Talk about a great statement piece! 
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A cheap little decorating cheat that I like to use is this:
Dollar Tree frames + Halloween print outs

You just print it off your computer, stick it in a $1 frame, and BOOM! So cute!
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This year I decorated the plants on our entertainment center with fake webbing. You could throw a few fake spiders in there too.
​I did not because the grubby little fingers that run around this house will steal them and at least one of my children will undoubtedly try to eat them. 

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Each season/holiday I like to decorate the tops of our kitchen cabinets. This year, I kept it pretty basic with some cheap black webbing from Walmart, a witch hat and spider from Dollar Tree, and a few of those awesome bats in the back. 

TJ Maxx is ON IT this year with their Halloween options.
​I found super cute garland and kitchen towel there and they were pretty inexpensive. 

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The bar gets decorated too. As you can see, the "bar" is pretty pitiful at the moment, but that Makers Mark really fits in well with that red wax looking all bloody. 

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Lastly, the dining room table got a makeover. 
The amazing table throw came from Target
(AKA: heaven on earth - AKA: where all of my money goes) 
And the centerpiece is a mix of Dollar Tree and Michaels, with a crystal and string-of-pearls succulents.
I think my favorite of all the décor this year (besides Rae Dunn - I just CANNOT with her) is this $1 creepy cup from Dollar Tree holding the string-of-pearl succulents. It looks like the cup is bubbling over with some kind of crazy potion. 
This would also work well in a small black cauldron. 

These are our Halloween decorations.
I hope you find something you like and use it to decorate your own home!

Thanks for creeping on by.

​-Jamie

​Last year, I challenged myself to change my "Funny Halloween Letter Board" sayings each day throughout October. 
I made it 26 days. 
SO close. 

Each day I posted them on Facebook for my friends and family to see. 
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This post is a long collection of those photos.

Enjoy! 

I hope you enjoyed reading these funny Halloween letter boards!

Check out my other blog posts for other fun and helpful ideas.

Thank you!