I think the best part of this activity was watching them blow bubbles through their straws. I always tell them at the dinner table that if they are going to use straws they can't blow bubbles. So, today they thought it was cool that they were able to do it and create art at the same time.
1 lb. stew meat
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 t0 3/4 cup sour cream
1/8 Dehydrated diced onions
Garlic, sea salt & pepper to taste
Fry meat with onions and seasonings. While this is cooking I do my noodles. I add a little bit of chicken bullion paste (gotta throw in my Alison's Pantry prodcuts) to my water so that it gives my noodles more flavor. Drain noodles. Add soup and sour cream to the meat. Stir until blended. I mix my sauce into my noodles, so mix everything together and your done!!!
P.S. I don't measure, I just throw things in. This is the best quess I can give you. but it's pretty close.
Mandees Stroganoff
I know, I know, I know!!! We haven't even said goodbye to Halloween and I am bringing up Thanksgiving. I just couldn't wait to do this craft and post it. I got the idea from my Parents magazine. These are what we are going to use at the table as Place Tags for everyone! BayLee and I had so much fun doing these yesterday afternoon. Logan looked for the rocks and we painted them. After the paint dried we put alphabet pasta on the rocks using glue dots. Super easy and super fun. The hardest part was finding the pasta- it was in the mexican food section of all places!!!!
Has anyone noticed that there is no Halloween specials on television this year!! What's up with that? I checked the local listings and I believe it's channel 4 has It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown on tonight at 7:00 P.M., mountain time, so you'll all want to check your local listings. I hadn't even thought about looking online for videos!! Tyson and I had fun watching this video and we checked out some more. Thanks to Erin for the idea!!! Does anyone else know about any others??? Have a happy Tuesday!
2 & 1/4 cups whole wheat flour (used white)
Click here to go to the Nestle Celebration corner. You have to sign up, but it's free and you will have access to 2 coupons for $1.00 off a bag of Nestle brand candy!! I got 2 bags at Albertson's last week for .66 cents a bag!! If you have more than one computer, try to print off of both!! It might get you more coupons. Every little bit helps!!
1 pkg. cream cheese, softened
The magnet's are sooo EASY! You buy a roll of magnet at Robert's. Make sure you use your 40% off coupon, it helps a lot. I paid about $6.00 a sheet for magnet and you can do oodles of magnets off a sheet. Peel the stickers off and stick on the magnet and cut out. The stickers work better if they are clear on the edges. I have done jungle sets, farms animals, Cars, Kung-Foo Panda, bugs and just about anything popular that kids like. These are the BEST Sunday toys. Stick them in the diaper bag and they keep kids busy forever.
Fun stuff!! Do you tink he'll like it? I sure hope so!!Please send us your mailing address to mandeeandbrandy@yahoo.com so we can get this in the mail to you. We want you to be able to enjoy it before Halloween! Thank you and stay tuned for more giveaways!!!!!
I grew up in a town where we ran rampant through the town on Halloween night. We lived in a small town where it was safe to turn your children loose on the unsuspecting neighbors and where it was safe to accept homemade popcorn balls and pulled taffy in our Halloween buckets. Such is not the case anymore. 
1 & 1/2 cups ice water (I decrease mine to 1 cup, it was way too runny the other way)
We love this book at our house! Each year we read this book over and over and over again. It is about all of these scary creatures that come to eat pie that a witch has made and left in the window. Come to find out, the creatures are..........YOU WILL HAVE TO READ IT TO FIND OUT!!!!
You'll need white material of some kind, we used cheese cloth, because it's what we had. Googly eyes or a black marker to draw with. Twisty ties and foam balls. We found a package at the dollar store that had assorted sizes.
I cute the cloth into random sized squares. The kids then put it over the foam balls and tied it off at the base with twist ties. Draw a face or glue on some eye's and your done. Easy, wasn't it?
I love the little guy in the middle with the big googly eyes. I think he's a little creepy looking. I'm note sure what he reminds me of, but it's creepy. Ooh, I know it's the mermaids that Ursula turns into weird little plant people in The Little Mermaid. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? A little off base, but there you go!!!
12 Peeled and chopped potatoes
Every year I buy several egg dye kits on clearance. They come in handy for the strangest things. Such as dying eggs in October!! I found these darling stickers at the dollar store and I bought them, knowing we would do something fun with them, but not knowing what.
See this cute little blond haired guy ^^^^^ The one in the John Deere shirt. He's the reason we are decorating eggs in October. I thought this was a great idea, because kids love to dye eggs and why not?? We'll eat them and it's always funner to eat them when they come in such fun colors!!
I loved this picture. Look at the look on J.D.'s face. He pulled the egg out of the purple dye and said, "It's kinda pinkish!!" Silly kid. They had so much fun. I think we might be making red and green eggs in a few months. Who knows???
Kritta22 generously gave Mandee and I this fun blog award! Thanks agian, Kritta22, your AWESOME and we are lovin' your blog!! We wanted to pass this award on to two of our favorite gals! 
What you need:
I got the instructions off of Executive Homemaker and we modified them as we went. You'll just have to type in Halloween in search engine and you will find them. But here is my version.
First we tried to do it Laurie's way by using one balloon. DID NOT WORK FOR ME!! I was to worried about them popping, plus every time I did get a pipe cleaner around the neck the air would slowly go out. So we blew up our big balloon first for the body and tied that balloon off. Then we blew up a smaller one to make the head. I then tied that balloon off by tying it to the stem of the other balloon. (I would have taken step by step pictures, but at this point it was mass chaos and children were screaming, blow up my balloon over and over. Oh, and the pesky baby was eating balloons. Choking hazard, ya know.)
At this point all the kids had to do was to wrap pipe cleaners around the two stems. Then the curled the ends under with their fingers. Add two glue dots to some googly eyes and you've got your face. Then a little marker, which doesn't stay on very good, but the kids loved to give them tattoo's, as they said.
P.S. Don't let the kids try to move the googly eye's once they are on the balloon. It will cause the balloon to pop, which has been known to cause tears, stress and drama!
4 Ripe Tomatoes (I prefer Roma)
Step one: Tightly roll diaper and put a rubber band around it. Little by little add diapers to the same rubber band until you can't add any more. If you have to, make several clusters to make one layer. Keep adding diapers until you have three different sizes of circles.
Step 2: Once you have all three layers made and they are nice and tight place them one on top of each layer.
Wrap each layer with ribbon, also have seen them with each layer wrapped in receiving blanket for a fondent look. Both ways are very cute!!!!
Finished product. A great decoration and a great use for the baby!! Brandy made one for me and I didn't use those diapers until I really had to. They are so cute!
About 20 apples, cored, peeled and diced
Thanks to Brandy sharing her apples I was able to make one of our familys very favorite desserts. APPLE CRUMB!! I am so excited for Fall to be here, it is like a traffic light giving me a green light to GO FORWARD AND BAKE!!! My favorite time of year, Brandys too, so I am sure we will be having tons of different recipes on here.
I spent only about $3.50 for this activity. I bought a bag of M&M's and a bag of Brach's Autumn mix candy. Everything else I had at home.
My 3-year-old had more fun doing this than my 6-year-old. He was singing Jingle Bells the whole time that we were making it. He keeps calling it his Jingle House! We have only made gingerbread houses at Christmas. This was our first Haunted House.
What you need ~ Candy, graham crackers, something for a base. We cut up a box and covered it with tinfoil. 
Materials needed: marble, paper plate, black paint, and a pie tin.
Put a dab of paint in the middle of the plate inside of the pie pan. Place the marble in the paint and roll the marble around to make a spider web design on the plate.
BayLee had fun doing this. Logan started to add WAY to many marbles and it turned into a mess. :) But it was a fun and easy project. I even jumped in and grabbed a plate and marble. I love Halloween and I think the projects for it are soooo much fun.
