On Halloween Eve...

I made Rice Crispy Treat pumpkins for Blue's class party tomorrow.

This is the overflow plate. There's another dozen in a tupperware.

To make these just start making rice crispy treats as you usually would. Before mixing in the rice crispies, add orange (red and yellow in my case) food coloring to the melted marshmallows. Butter your hands and roll into balls. Add stems and vines with candy and icing. Easy and cute!

Meanwhile the boys did some coloring. Blue wanted to make a picture for Poppy and Toby didn't want to be left out.

The is a fall tree with a cyclops on the right, (as he was explaining it to me I thought he was saying eyedrops and I was very confused) two silly monsters on the left, and pumpkins down below.

I'm not really sure what Toby drew.

Then Kevin and the boys did some gutting and carving. Toby kept touching the pumpkin guts and saying Ewwww and hot. Ewwww I get, but hot?

Um, Toby. You can't stick your head in the pumpkin. Especially not when Daddy's got a knife in there.

And then the horror part of Halloween began. I mean, Blue with a knife? Yikes!

So here's the kid's pumpkin:

Now the kids are in bed and I'm starting to watch Once Upon a Time (giving it a shot) and I'm carving our big pumpkin. The plan is to carve Cat in the Hat. The goal is for it to look more like this:

And not like this:

Here I go...

Comments

[Stacy Stone]

Thanks for the pumpkin rice crispy treat idea! This was the first year I let either boys help carve (well, like this is our 3rd year). Samuel got to carve the eyes and Sawyer the nose. Very basic. Both did well enough that Samuel may get more control next year. He's also been scrapping the bark off a stick and then his Dad made a cool bow to go with his Indian gig tomorrow night :)