A little late

I guess I should have edited this picture before I posted it, so it didn't have so much blank space.  Oh well.

This craft only took me 13 months to make.  I print and cut out the letters the previous Halloween, like back when my son was 4 when everything was ghosts for Halloween, including the soap dispenser.  I got the letters from here. And this tutorial to make the rosettes. Rosettes are the accordion circle behind the letters. J loved it when I showed it to him, unfortunately he is going to have to wait 11 months before it stays hanging in our house.

Everything Ghost

Its everything ghost in our house this October.  The year of the ghost.  So when were asked to bring 15 small things to share with all of J's classmates for Halloween, I remembered kleenex ghosts. Sure its hardly an original craft, but he is young so its new to him.  He had fun making them for his friends.

He drew spooky faces all of them. He also drew blood all over his kleenex ghost but not his friends, because it is so spooky and he didn't want to scare them.  His dad and I thought that was very respectful of him. 

In our small bag of of tootsie roll halloween candy we only had 10 lollipops, so we just tied kleenex to the large tootsie rolls, it worked fine.

He also drew fifteen pictures of spiderwebs and other spooky things to give to his classmates, drawing the pictures was his idea.

Halloween Cookies

Halloween Cookies with grammy. Hmm, this sounds famillar. Oh yeah, I make the dough by myself, and a day or two later, grammy takes care of the rest with the kids. We have more pictures of J and Grammy making sugar cookies than anything else.

Of course we had ghosts!  He is looking so big these days, and so dang cute!

Nan just scooped the frosting off the cookies with her knife and ate it.

Alterations to the Ghost

One day my son came home from preschool and told me that they are going to have a Halloween party at school? Oh really? that's great. Yeah, and I'm going to wear my ghost costume, but first we have to draw blood on it so you can tell how I died. Oh? Have you been discussing this with one of your friends? No. Did you talk about your costume or anyone else's costume today at school? No. Ok, apparently this is totally his own idea. He pulled the marker out before our last photo session ended. I spent three dollars on that sheet, and its his costume so I let him do what he wanted, but I did help him make the drip shape when he was marking.

Gorey huh?

The picture is not the best, but he had lost interest in pictures.

My true Ghost

My son has planned on being a ghost since November 1, 2009. Both his parents refused to let him only have eye hole holes, so we made a hood. It wasn't hard, it wasn't a lot of sewing, but we still used grammy's help while in Texas.

Then one day he needed a mask to be brave when an older boy in the neighbhorhood was being scary. In the words of his dad, "Now! he looks like a ghost." The mask is courtesy from a trip his great uncle took to Guatemala via his Auntie (Anti) Kim. But he won't be using it on Halloween.