Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
1 batch sugar cookie dough (like this one or this one)
yellow and orange food coloring

Optional:
Sanding sugar, coarse raw sugar, or sprinkles
almond bark or white chocolate, melted

Instructions:
Divide prepared sugar cookie dough into three equal portions.  Leave one as is and color one other portion yellow and another portion orange.
Line a standard loaf pan with plastic wrap.  Gently press layer of uncolored dough into bottom of pan and smooth flat, keeping it at least 1/2-3/4 inches high (you don’t have to use the whole pan if you have a small batch of dough) or larger if desired.  Layer orange dough on top of previous layer and smooth.  Finally layer yellow dough and smooth on top.  Wrap plastic over dough and chill until firm, 30-60 minutes in freezer or 1-2 hours in fridge.  Or you can store the dough in fridge for 2-3 days before baking.
Remove plastic and slice loaf into 1/4 inch slices. Trim top of slice to make straight line.  Cut each slice into triangle shape and dip top side in sugar if desired.  Bake according to sugar cookie directions.  Cool completely and then if desired, dip ends in almond bark or white chocolate and decorate with sprinkles.

I found this recipe here.

Witches Hats

Lindsay had a Joy School Party today and they made these cute little Witches Hat. It is just an ice cream cone glued (with frosting) to a little piece of construction paper cut into a circle. The inside is filled with cereal, marshmallows, and m&m's.

Bloody Cups

I can't remember where I saw this. It looked kind of fun and they were really easy. I mixed corn syrup on a plate with red food coloring. Then I dipped the top of the cup into the syrup. Then you sit the cup up and let it drip as long as you want it to. Then put it in the freezer to stop the dripping. Spooky!

I also made some kid friendly with plastic cups for the kids.

Bat Hands

My kids were given a little Halloween activity book last year somewhere. I ended up just throwing it in with all of the decorations last year. This year we found it and today the kids colored a few pictures and we made some cute little bats out of their hands. I also saw that you could use a foot print as the body and use googly eyes on it to make the bat face. I think they turned out pretty cute. We hung them up and the kids are pretty proud of them. Don't you love how Lindsay's bat has a belly button and painted toe nails?

Halloween Chex Mix

8 oz white chocolate baking bars, coarsely chopped (I used white chocolate chips)
4 cups corn chex or rice chex cereal (I used a mixture of both)
2 cups bite size pretzel twists
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup candy corn
1/4 cup orange and black candy decors

In large microwaveable bowl, microwave chopped baking bars uncovered on High for 1-2 minutes stirring often until melted and smooth.

Gently stir in cereal, pretzels, and raisins until evenly coated. Stir in candy and decors.

Spread on wax paper or foil until cooled and chocolate is set. Break into chunks. Store loosely covered.

Ghost Feet

Today we added some feet ghosts to our hand ghosts. They loved this!

Ghost Hands

The kids and I made little ghosts out of their hands the other day. They turned out pretty cute. I was going to use black paint on their thumbs to make eyes and a mouth, but my black paint was to watery for some reason. So we used a sharpie instead.

We may try again using their feet. I think they may look more like ghosts.

Cokie Caterpillars

1 roll refrigerated chocolate chip cookies.
3/4 cup vanilla frosting
10 drops green food coloring
10 pretzel sticks
16 miniture candy coated chocolate baking bits

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Shaped tsp of dough in balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 9-12 minutes. Cool 1 minute. Allow to cool completely.

In small bowl mix frosting and food coloring until well blended. Spread about 1 tsp frosting between 2 cookies. Add more frosting and cookies using 18 cookies to make each caterpillar. Repeat with remaining cookies to make 2 caterpillars.

Dip pretzels stick halves in frosting. Attach 4 sticks on each side of caterpllar to resemble leggs and 2 sticks on top to resemble antennae. Spread frosting on 2 baking bits and attach to resemble eyes, Spread on 6 more candy bits to resemble mouth. Add addition baking bits to resemble spots if desired.

Halloween Spiders

Lindsay made this cute little spider using her hands at Joy School today. I thought it was so cute, so I am sharing it with you.

Landon's Pumpkin

I took Landon to Story Time today at the library. It was so fun. It was all about Pumpkins. They made this cute little pumpkin out of an orange lunch sack. We filled it with newspaper, tied it up with a green pipe cleaner, and glued on black cut out pieces of construction paper. It turned out pretty cute so we thought we would share. Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat Bags

Here are the Trick or Treat Bags I made for the kids. I think they turned out cute.

My Little Pumpkins

I saw a cute idea in an old Family Fun magazine that I had to tye dye t-shirts for Halloween. I have been super excited for Fall to get here. I think I am just tired of the heat. So, I got all the supplies and called a few friends over. This morning we all made our little tye dye pumpkin shirts. I think they turned out pretty cute. What do you think?