Dancing skeletons

Here's the latest addition to the recylable Halloween decorations, dancing skeletons.  Silver marker on white paper doesn't photograph well, but you get the idea.

 

I traced the kids on to a roll of paper while they demonstrated their best dance moves.  My Girl is showing her disco groove.  We had just gotten back from gymnastics.  More on that another time.

I used left over wrapping paper from last Christmas.  I use it throughout the year for all sorts of things.  After the holidays are over you can get it really cheap.  I look for those that are the least Christmasy so that I can use it for wrapping year 'round, but we use the back for art projects and I also use it for pattern making when I sew.

After tracing the kids I sketched in the bones.  It isn't anatomically correct, but it's definitely skeleton-y.

Haunted house

The kids were extremely excited about decorating the house for Halloween.  Unfortunately, we just don't have that many holiday decorations.  All of our non-Christmas holiday decor fits quite easily into one plastic bin in the garage, and I plan to pretty much keep it that way.  So enter the one time use holiday decorations.

We added spooky monster eyes to a couple of the bushes in front.

Then sneaky cats...

and bats to My Girl's window.

 

The big piece was the haunted house on the front window.  It is best seen at night.  I did something similar a couple of years ago.  I liked it then and I like my new version as well.  I like the larger house, but without the bats it isn't very creepy.  I'll have to fix that somehow in future versions.

 



I cut the house and fence by hand, but used my handy dandy cutting machine for the cats and bats.

Zombie Attack

 

Here is Buddy Boy's completed game.  He's only saved a few of the games and animations he's made so most of them are gone forever.  This may not be something to be saved for millenia, but it's fun to see what he's doing now.  He has a good time with it.