A Zombie
After pushing hard on him to think of something new, he finally said, “A ghost. No! A zombie!” “Do you want to draw it today?” I asked. We had a lot of extra time because...
How about Frankenstein…
“What should we do today?” “I don’t know.” “Well, you can think of anything!” I reminded him. “How about Frankenstein?” he said with little hesitation. I love it that a little push so often works....
Witch
“I don’t know. You pick. I don’t have any ideas.” “How about something Halloween-y?” I suggested. “I know…but…I don’t know.” I drew a blank too and said nothing. We both stared off into the distance...
Giraffe Neck
I woke up this morning with an idea of what to draw. That’s actually never happened before. I had the idea to do something close up. The neck of a giraffe came to mind. I’m...
Skulls Jack-o’-lantern
While I made his breakfast, he flipped through a pumpkin carving pattern book. Every year we meet up with friends for a pumpkin carving party. “You’re going to do this bat,” he informed me. “It...
Tree Rex
I’m not sure exactly how or why, but we went from Halloween to Christmas to Skylanders and finally ended up with Tree Rex from Skylanders Giants. He got in trouble for playing with his toys...
Panther Set In Flames
“What should we do today?” I asked. “I have no idea,” he said and sat pensively. “You’ve done a battleship,” he added. “How about we do something with fire?” I suggested. A stack of fire...
Despicable Me Minions
He brought home a bunch of Despicable Me coloring pages from school on Friday. This morning, they were still on the counter untouched. I shuffled through them and asked, “How about this one for the snack sack?” It...
Meatbalrus
After a day off, we were sure we wanted to do another Foodimal from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. We had already done a Tacodile Supreme, Cheese Spider, and Bananostrich. I did a...
Surfer Dude
His class had a field trip planned to the pumpkin patch today so I wasn’t packing a snack. They asked us to put his lunch in a clear gallon sized Ziploc bag. I didn’t expect to...