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Star Wars Luke Skywalker DIY costume

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Usually we have to wait years in between Star Wars movies, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out last year and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is coming out this December!

I love how the Star Wars movies continue to have strong female characters. We’re big Star Wars fans around this house, so we’ll definitely be going to see that.

In fact, our son has been Luke Skywalker for Halloween not one, not two, but THREE times! As you can see, even his sisters had to get in on the Star Wars costumes for Halloween as well. I’m sure that there are going to be a lot of Star Wars costumes at Halloween this fall.

Star Wars Halloween Costumes

Two of those times my son dressed up like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars: A New Hope, and as you can see, that’s a super easy costume….

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Happy Halloween! From my ghosts to yours

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Happy Halloween!

Halloween craft - Tissue box haunt

DIY Halloween craft decoration - tissue box haunted houseInstructions for the tissue box haunted house with tissue ghosts can be found at the post Make Your Own Halloween Decorations: Tissue box haunted house. Happy Crafting!

Halloween decorations: Little Hanging Ghosts

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ghosts in treesHang these from your trees outside or chandeliers inside for super easy Halloween decorations….

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Halloween decorations: Paperdoll Ghost Garlands

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Try this variation on paper dolls to make some easy Halloween decorations….

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Goblin Fruit Kids Will Gobble Up

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halloween fruitBefore you send you little ones to stuff their pumpkins (and then their faces) with candy, put something a little more healthy in their stomachs – goblin fruit faces!

If you’re a child of the 70’s, maybe you remember the “pear salad” your mom made you eat?…

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Easy and fast DIY Athena Costume your girl will love!

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I made this Greek goddess costume for my daughter to be Athena from the Percy Jackson books. It's super easy, no sewing required! It would also make a great Book Week or Book Character Parade costume for lots of books, including Goddess Girls.The books I write for kids are fantasy, so it’s probably no surprise that we’re big fantasy readers around this house. My middle grader has just discovered the Percy Jackson series and is tearing through them. (Can you call it “discovered” when her brother has been begging her for years and she only read it because her English teacher put The Lightning Thief on  a reading list?)

Some parents would be appalled that English teachers are encouraging kids to read something as commercial as The Lightning Thief. I think it’s great! To me, the main reason for assigning books is to turn kids into readers. The depressing books that most teachers assign discourage kids from reading….

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