Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

We love visiting our local pumpkin patch every year. This past weekend we were able to go and enjoy a beautiful Fall day. I'm glad we were able to do this, because Bekah has been sick and I'm not sure we'll be doing anything else for Halloween this year. Here's some pictures from our recent visit.

Here's Bekah with Daddy on her way to the Patch.

Can you tell which one is Bekah?

Enjoying the play area.

Taking a ride on the cow train. Bekah loved this. I, however, was very nervous letting her go by herself!

Finally coming back from her ride. It was a long 3 minutes!

I love this picture, for some reason!

Jumping on the giant pillow. Bekah said this was her favorite part.

Picking out our pumpkin.

Mommy and Bekah hanging out in the pumpkin patch.

"Let's go home, Daddy!"


Hope you all have a fun Halloween!

Open Ended Art - Pumpkins

This is our first week participating in Open Ended Art. I've been wanting to do this for a long time and just never got around to doing it. This weeks theme was pumpkins, and we had a few extra small pumpkins sitting around, so I thought it would be a great time to start.

Bekah decided she wanted to paint her pumpkin, so I let her pick out whatever color she would like. She picked white. Kinda surprised me, but I think she was remembering the white pumpkins we had seen at the pumpkin patch.

Then she decided she wanted to paint more pumpkins, so she did a green one and a blue one. Bekah really loved doing this and we look forward to participating again.

You can see what others have done for Open Ended Art over at Mommies Wise Little Bookworms.

Some more Fall and Halloween Activities

One of my new favoirte sites is called Childcareland. While some things on this site are to buy there are a ton of free printables and video tutorials. This is where I found the recipe for this apple dough. Bekah really enjoys using playdoh and we hadn't done it in a long time, so this afternoon we made some. It smelled so good!
Bekah mixed the ingredients together.


And then we got to play. What fun! This would be a great activity to make ornaments out of at Christmas time.


Another activity we found there were these cute little ghosts. She includes a song to go along and everything. Bekah was having a moment and threw these on the floor, but I thought it was a fun activity! Oh, well.


We also made these Pumpkin seed counting books. I'm still waiting for these to dry and then we will put the pages together.


Hope you enjoy these as much as we did!

Autumn Tic Tac Toe Game

Here's another fun Fall/Halloween project to do. I found this idea at Tired, Need Sleep. If you haven't been to her site, you should check it out. She has tons of great ideas!

Go here to get directions to make this. We covered ours with contact paper to last longer. Bekah is just learning how to play tic tac toe, so this has been a really fun game for us to play together. It would be great to take it along to a restaurant to keep your child busy while waiting.

Cookie Cutter Art

I am addicted to cookie cutters! I love them....and not just for cookies. I use them on sandwiches, pancakes, quesidillas, and even fruit sometimes. I also think they are just so cute. I've seen cookie cutter crafts many times in different blogs, but for some reason have never done one with Bekah. Well, today we decided to try one. It was such a quick craft for a busy Saturday, but lots of fun. All you need is paint, some cookie cutters (we used ghosts and pumpkins, and a piece of construction paper. Here's Bekah making her beautiful art.


Here's the finished product. Bekah was so upset when the pumpkin or ghost didn't come out perfectly. I'd really like to do more are like this to show that it doesn't need to be perfect. I think it came out awesome.

Pumpkin Candle Holder

Bekah and I made this adorable candle holder from over at Moments of Mommyhood. We're also planning on making some different ones for Christmas and other occasions.
These were so easy to make.
Bekah painted the liquid starch on a glass jar.
She then put the ripped tissue paper on the wet jar.

We let it dry, drew a jack-o-lantern face on with black marker, and put a candle inside.

Bekah wants it lit constantly!