stART ~ Corduroy’s Halloween

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This week we read Corduroy's Halloween, by B. G. Hennessy.  This is a cute lift the flap book that tells the story of how a little bear named Corduroy prepares to celebrate Halloween.  Emily and Juliette love looking under the flaps to see the fun surprises underneath while we are reading the story.

Both Emily and Juliette liked the Jack-o-Lanterns that are in the story so we made our own out of paper.  To make them a little more special we made them sun-catcher Jack-o-lanterns.

I cut a pumpkin shape out of card stock paper and the girls picked which way they wanted to hold it so they could have a tall skinny pumpkin or a short squatty one.  Next,  Emily had fun drawing a face on hers.  Then I cut it out with an Exacto knife type of a cutter.   For Juliette I drew the face and cut it out.

Then they painted their pumpkins.

After they dried they glued yellow tissue paper to the back of the pumpkin over the holes for the eyes, mouth and nose.  Emily was determined to cover her entire back with tissue paper.

Finally they glued on the stem, leaf that was cut out of construction paper  and the vine which is a piece of pipe cleaner.

Emily’s Jack-o-Lantern

 

Juliette’s Jack-o-Lantern

 

I love how when the sun is shining it really lights up the Jack-o-Lanterns face!!

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