{"id":12306,"date":"2013-10-08T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:02:50","slug":"fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kiddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kiddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fall Festivities with the Kiddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Momservation: <\/b>If you never made an orange and black paper chain or a construction paper turkey out of your hand prints you didn\u2019t have enough fun as a kid.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE<em> love<\/em> <strong>love<\/strong>\u00a0fall!<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s because some of my earliest school memories as a kid were all the fun fall craft projects we did in class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red, orange, green and yellow paper chains<\/li>\n<li>Orange and black paper chains<\/li>\n<li>Leaf collages<\/li>\n<li>Leaf rubbings<\/li>\n<li>Leaf garland<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper pumpkins with glitter<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper spiders<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper turkeys with feathers<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper turkeys made out of my handprints<\/li>\n<li>Indian headdress with construction paper feathers<\/li>\n<li>Indian vest made out of paper bags<\/li>\n<li>Construction paper Pilgrim hat<\/li>\n<li>Stations where you decorated a sugar cookie<\/li>\n<li>Stations where you made candles<\/li>\n<li>Stations where you glued glitter on pine cones<\/li>\n<li>Stations where you made something out of construction paper, glitter, buttons, feathers, beads or paint and your scissors got stuck to your hands with glue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if all this crafting instead of learning wasn\u2019t glorious enough\u2026it was followed by a holiday party for Halloween, then Thanksgiving, culminating in the kid nirvana of Christmas crafts, stations, and parties! And it all started two weeks into school!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, school was much more fun when we were kids. Teachers aren\u2019t allowed to do anything fun with the holidays anymore unless they can tie it to a benchmark, it\u2019s passed a health inspection, and you\u2019ve made it generic enough to not violate someone\u2019s religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these early impressions of fall stuck with me and it is all I can do not to go around gluing glitter and feathers on everything. I become giddy over all things fall and my family has no choice but to indulge this love with me by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.applehill.com\/\"> Apple Hill<\/a> to consume copious amounts of apple related products and soak up fall descending on the Sierra foothills<\/li>\n<li>Decorating the house so that no surface hasn\u2019t been touched by fall, Halloween or Thanksgiving<\/li>\n<li>Making crafts like using construction paper to turn an oatmeal canister into a jack-o-lantern or covering an apple with cloves or making cinnamon stick candle holders<\/li>\n<li>Cooking yummy things that make the house smell good like homemade applesauce or are fun to make and eat like graveyard pudding cups<\/li>\n<li>Doing anything together as a family to celebrate the season like going to a pumpkin patch, drinking hot apple cider, trying on silly costumes at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spirithalloween.com\/\">Spirit Halloween store<\/a>, or learning how to make apple pie for the first time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to join me in celebrating this glorious season that ushers in Christmas, I\u2019ve created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/momservations\/fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kids\/\">Pinterest board<\/a> of quick, easy, festive things to do with the kids to celebrate fall called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/momservations\/fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kids\/\"><b>Fun Fall Festivities with the Kids<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12307\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/momservations\/fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kids\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12307\" alt=\"Fun Fall Festivities with the Kids\" src=\"http:\/\/198.23.108.118\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jackolantern-idea.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun Fall Festivities with the Kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But I\u2019m going to warn you. As rabid as I am about fall\u2014it\u2019s got nothing on my feelings about Christmas\u2026and I\u2019m way more fun than a teacher with a politically correct school board breathing down their neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momservations\u00ae Pinterest board with quick, easy, festive things to do with the kids to celebrate fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1128,1129,1130,1131,1132,2,1133,1134,1135,1136,86,3,5,1137,6,28,969,1138],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-baking-with-kids","tag-celebrating-fall","tag-crafting-with-kids","tag-fall-ideas","tag-fall-ideas-on-pinterest","tag-family","tag-fun-fall-activities-to-do-with-kids","tag-fun-fall-festivities-with-the-kids","tag-halloween-ideas","tag-holiday-crafts-for-kids","tag-kelli-wheeler","tag-kids","tag-momservations","tag-momservations-pinterest-board","tag-parenting","tag-parenting-humor","tag-pinterest","tag-thanksgiving-ideas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fun Fall Festivities with the Kiddies - Kelli M. 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