{"id":7574,"date":"2013-10-11T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2013-10-11T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:21:46","slug":"clothespin-bats-balloon-spiders-and-20-more-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/clothespin-bats-balloon-spiders-and-20-more-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothespin Bats, Balloon Spiders and 20 More Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been decorating our home this week. There are Scooby Doo Halloween decals on windows, silly banners in the kitchen, and even purple and orange lights strung up here and there. Too cute! My littles wanted to also make some Halloween decorations, they are still in the midst of gluing and painting and getting sticky with more ideas, but here are a couple we did this week. <\/p>\n

The clothespin bats<\/a> were our inspiration for our bats. We didn’t follow all the directions, because one of my children is 4 is just wants to attack everything with glue. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

All you have to do is paint a wooden clothespin black, cut out two bats from black construction paper (using this template<\/a>) and glue the bats to the clothespin! Super easy and so cute. My two littlest ones made these themselves! Secure the bats to the clothespin by gluing down the middle of the clothespin, and once bats have been glued to both sides, glue the tips of their wings together. Voila! Done!<\/p>\n

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This black widow balloon took literally 5 minutes, maybe less. You need a black balloon, black streamers and red construction paper. I found that this looked best in a corner, but you could really put it anywhere. I taped the streamer ‘legs’ directly to the balloon, and to the wall in two places to mimic their little knees. Are they knees?! You know what I mean. \ud83d\ude09 My very literal 7 year old pointed out that it didn’t really<\/i> look like a black widow because there were no markings on it….so we fixed it. When we lived in the woods, we had about a zillion spiders in our lives and man am I ever happy to be away from them all. <\/p>\n

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\"\"Stuff from this post:<\/b> Wooden Clothespins<\/a>\"\", Tempera Paint<\/a>\"\", Construction Paper<\/a>\"\", Onyx Black Balloons<\/a>\"\" and Black Crepe Streamer<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been decorating our home this week. There are Scooby Doo Halloween decals on windows, silly banners in the kitchen, and even purple and orange lights strung up here and there. Too cute! My littles wanted to also make some Halloween decorations, they are still in the midst of gluing and painting and getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[1105,1104,129,1103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7582,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}