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Fall Lanterns

November 11, 2020 Leave a Comment Activities· Crafts· Fall· Fall

These beautiful home-made Fall Lanterns are easy to make and perfect for honoring the arrival of fall.

Now that it’s fall, the nights are growing longer and colder. We love to celebrate The Festival of Martinmas and make lanterns for the festival every year. Martinmas, or the festival of St. Martin, is celebrated around November 11 in many Waldorf schools with a nighttime lantern walk. It marks the end of the fall harvest and the arrival of cold, snowy weather. This is a sweet way to celebrate the seasonal change we are experiencing and maintain the symbolic warm light of our spirit. Check out the Moon Child Blog to learn more about it! Even if you don’t celebrate this particular festival, making these Fall Lanterns is a great way to honor the arrival of fall!

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Fall Leaf Squashes

November 5, 2020 Leave a Comment Crafts· Fall

These decorative Fall Leaf Squashes are an easy craft for kids and adults and they make a really beautiful addition to your usual fall decor.

In October, I kept seeing all these beautifully decorated pumpkins all over social media, like these ones from Little Pine Learners. They used pressed flowers to decorate theirs and although I was originally influenced by flowers and pumpkins, I thought, hmm, what do we have gobs and gobs of right now? Oh, right! Fall leaves and butternut squashes! We have so many pretty leaves this time of year and my pantry is chock-full of butternut squashes right now too. I asked my husband to grab one from the store for dinner, but he came home with about six last week! Haha.

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Black Bean Bats

October 28, 2020 Leave a Comment Activities· Crafts· Fall· Fall

These Black Bean Bats are a fun craft for kids and grownups that make a really spooky and cute Halloween wall hanging!

Halloween is in full swing over here! It’s a favorite holiday in my family and my kids couldn’t be any more excited that it’s happening this week! We are busy decorating right now and we came up with these fun Black Bean Bats which can be used to make a really fun and spooky Halloween wall hanging. Read on for a step-by-step guide to make your own!

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Fall Leaf Jack-O-Lanterns

October 22, 2020 Leave a Comment Activities· Crafts· Fall· Fall· Forest School

These Fall Leaf Jack-O-Lanterns are a fun, nature based alternative to carving pumpkins! Kids will enjoy gathering the fall leaves as well as creating these beautiful jack-o-lanterns!

You know it’s officially fall when the leaves start to change colors. They go from green to beautiful, vibrant yellows, oranges and reds. Halloween also happens to be just a few weeks away so we thought these Fall Leaf Jack-O-Lanterns would be the perfect nature based Halloween activity! … Read More about Fall Leaf Jack-O-Lanterns

Halloween Rocks

October 19, 2020 Leave a Comment Activities· Crafts· Fall· Fall· Forest School

These Halloween Rocks are a perfect craft for kids of all ages. These jack-o-lanterns, mummies, and monsters are super silly and they’ll get everyone in the Halloween spirit!

Halloween is a favorite holiday around here! My kids love anything and everything to do with Halloween and making these Halloween Rocks was no different. They had so much fun with this project. Just using rocks and yarn and googly eyes, you can create some pretty hilarious Halloween characters. (If you’re like us and love yarn crafts, check out these other ones: Macrame Rainbows and Twig Letters!). Read on to learn how to make Jack-o-Lantern Rocks, Mummy Rocks, and really goofy Rock Monsters!

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