One of Eva's current favorite books is "Pumpkin Moonshine" by Tasha Tudor (Tudor! Ha! Cracks Eva up every time.), which has been playing nicely into the current season. If you've not read the book, you should--it's a sweet little Halloween story about a girl searching for the perfect pumpkin to carve into a pumpkin moonshine (jack-o-lantern)...and Eva can't get enough.
In fact, she's been talking about Halloween for weeks. Every day she's got new ideas for costumes--I don't know how she'll ever decide (although she keeps coming back to "ghost.") Yesterday she told me that Sully should be a hot dog, but I think that was heavily influenced by some doggie costumes she saw at Target.
Anyway. The girl is very, very into Halloween these days, so this book came home from the library at just the perfect time. We've been reading it AT LEAST once every day, usually more. And yesterday this book, combined with a back-to-school clearance (Again: Target.) resulted in a pumpkin moonshine of her very own.
I cut out some simple shapes from construction paper, introduced her to the Elmer's glue (WAY better than the glue stick), and away she went! (The bats were all her idea. And the moon is on the pumpkin because "It's a low moon, Mama.")

Today, we're breaking out the glitter (and her new favorite Elmer's glue) and making ourselves some spider webs.
After all, as Eva says, "It's Halloween Time!"
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