Halloween Crafts

I saw these caramel apples in the Martha Stewart magazine and thought it looked simple enough to do... 

Wren and I scurried around our front yard picking up sticks to shove into our own apples and began making the caramel. Martha always has a way of making her food look awesome and effortless. 

I burned the first batch of caramel easily. The second batch smelled great and we had a hard time keeping our fingers out of it. But it took WAY longer to cool than Martha promised (so I threw the bowl of it in the fridge to hurry it up!) and it still never set properly on the apples. Instead, it all ran off onto the parchment paper after a while. I kind of recommend not using her recipe. But it was tasty nonetheless.

 Then we painted jars to look like little pumpkins and drew faces on with sharpie markers after they had dried. Our collection of extra sticks from the yard got plunked inside. This idea also came from Martha here. (Uh, I just realized that she painted the inside of the jars...not the outside like me. Hmm. Obviously I didn't look this project over very closely before jumping in.)

And just because we were inside a lot with this potty training business going on, we also made bats for our lampshades. Draw, cut out, stick inside to make silouettes. Spooky!

We also have a big pumpkin on the shelf waiting to get carved. Anyone else do any fun kid Halloween crafts this year?