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Carving Pumpkins – DIY Stencils

12 October 2010
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Carving pumpkins has always been a great family bonding time for me. When I was little, my parents would take us out to the pumpkin patch. The rule was, if you can carry it then it’s yours. I always got the biggest one I could muster. We’d head for home, start scooping and sketching our [...]

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Halloween 2009

26 October 2009
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This year, Miss Chief wanted to be Ariel (ar-ee-elle, not air-ee-elle). I sketched up a few ideas for her and we decided to go with this one: The mermaid tail instructions came from Burnouthappy on YouTube. Mr. B wanted to be a Water Dragon. I sketched this up for him: And here’s a collage that [...]

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Make Some Paper Pumpkins

11 October 2009
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Look at these beautiful Mod Pumpkins from Vicki! On Friday, the children and I were at the playroom on the Oncology Floor at our local hospital. We created some kits of with one piece of brown, green and orange construction paper. Then, we did a quick demo for the volunteers and one inpatient child. We [...]

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