Tag: painting pumpkins

Sunday Snapshots (of Halloween)

Marie Haigh1 Comment

Our Halloween celebration lasted all month long.

It started with our annual Autumn Fest where pumpkins were painted and apples were bobbed for.

It continued at the Weavers Orchard’s Fall fest where Elly got to card alpaca fleece and paint another pumpkin.

Then, we attended a MOMS Club Halloween party.

Next, we attended Boo at the Zoo.

Finally, Halloween finally arrived. After an hour of trick-or-treating, we returned home to pass out candy to the kids with more stamina.

Elly had a blast!

She was a bit disappointed though to learn that we didn’t get to give out more candy the following day.

Sunday Snapshots (of painted pumpkins)

Marie Haigh2 Comments

Yesterday, Elly and I painted the two pumpkins she had picked out last week.

After drawing a happy face on the first pumpkin, Elly drew a line from the eye to the top of the pumpkin and announced that it was a pirate. Dan was so proud.

The paint is already flaking off because I insisted that we use Crayola washable paint rather than acrylic paint. Acrylic paint would have stuck better to the pumpkins, but it also would have stuck a bit too well to Elly and to my clothes. Elly tends to paint aggressively when she gets into a zone. Paint starts flying.

There is still the big pumpkin to decorate. Since we are stuck indoors thanks to Hurricane Sandy, we’ll have oodles of time to draw a face on it and carve it out. It’s a family affair because Dan is responsible for cleaning the guts of the pumpkin out.

Update: Elly loved helping Daddy carve the pumpkin though she refused to help clean out the seeds. She didn’t want to get her hands dirty. Ha!