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Milk Jug Jack-o-lantern
1. You will need a gallon size milk jug. (Clean it out)
2. Paint it orange with paint mixed with glue (let dry)
3. When it is dry, let the child choose the face they want to glue on the jug. (Black shapes, pre-cut works best)
4. Put a candle or glow stick in the jug, and it will light up.

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This is a spider that you can carry!  This is a spider that you can carry!  Paint a styrophome ball (let dry).  Add eight legs (pipe cleaners) and eyes.  My a hole the entire way through the ball, and thread it with string. Then tie it at the bottom of the ball and the other end to a dowel rod.


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I truly believe in carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns, but this is fun too.  Get cookie cutters and hammer them into the pumpkin.  It ends up so neat looking!

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Paint pumpkins black and then cut orange masking tape and put all over the pumpkin.  This is great to keep children or adults busy :)  works well for fine motor skill workout too!

Make a bat Project.  Straw, black paper, stapler, scissors. 
I am a creature of the night (Cut from 1 to 2)
Waiting until dark before I take flight (cute from 2 to 3)
I eat mostly bugs but also fruit (cut from 3 to 4) or the nectar of flowers just like bees (cut from 4 to 5). I live in caves but also burrows, flowers or leaves (Cut from 5 to 6)
​What am I?
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