I’m eating no-bake cookies for breakfast, at 10:00. They have oatmeal in them so I call it a win.
My kids love love love to craft. That’s understandable to us as crafters ourselves, right? So I decided to let every Wednesday be the day they get to do a craft, as it is their early out day. One craft per week + the holidays make it really easy to do this.
Last week we made stone spiders, found via eighteen25 from Rebecca Cooper. Rebecca made a kid-friendly version that we followed HERE. Oh my goodness, she made those stone spiders look so adorable with her wonderful photography. And they ARE cute—just a bit different. My kids didn’t pick out the nice round rocks, they wanted the crazy shaped ones. They loved making them! 
This week we made some Halloween shirts using freezer paper and bleach pens. I love that the black turns an orange color! Perfect.
Let me just tell you, that Haunted House one took forever while I was ironing the freezer paper on! All those little pieces! But it turned out awesome.
Last year we made these cookies and these shirts (my, how young they look!):
We bought those cheap wood shapes from Joann and painted those last year as well.
And this wasn’t a craft with the kids, but for my kids—using Cheri’s upcycled hat tutorial, I made these candy corn hats. I love them! 
We also tried to make this spider together…though it was more work for me obviously.
It is always easy to craft with kids? No way! They get crazy and hyper, and they sometimes fight and get bossy. But for the most part they are so happy and excited, and it ends up a good time spent together.
I think I can handle it once a week. 
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Thank you!!! gread idea!!!! I will make it with my childrens.
Oh I love that the bleach-pen-on-black effect came out orange! What a great idea!
I love the bleach pen shirts! I finally bought freezer paper for the first time (crazy, I know) the other day after you posted your little bat shirt. So thank you, now I just need to use it!
I’m right there with you. Most of the time it creates great memories even though it’s work for us moms…but sometimes…I wish I never bothered! :)
The effect of the bleach pen on the black is really cool, I like that it’s not a solid color. Those spider cookies are delicious!
So, I totally love this idea and are making ones for all of us, where’d you get the bleach pens from? I can only find the stain remover ones.
Jenna,
I found them at Walmart, just by the laundry bleach. Hmmm…hopefully you can track one down!