Halloween

Halloween has become a thing here. It was not something that we celebrated when I was a child or even as a parent but as an indulgent nanna I am more than happy to create with Oscar. 

Papier-mâché pumpkin, lighting with a battery operated candle.

Working to the design plan

Learning that persistence pays off, for a five year old the layers of glueing of the paper and then painting occupied  a lot of after kinder time.

Baking is always a fun after Kinder activity. 

The pumpkin cookies were a big hit. You can read about the dough and techniques used the make the cookies 
here

Flooding the design

Etching into the icing

Scary pumpkin cookies

And even scarier spiders. Melted chocolate proved to be a real challenge!

Costumes required for ‘trick or treating’ 

Making the top hat

And finally bats to string across the verandah and in windows. Card and black paint constructions.