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Zombie Toss: Create A Plants VS Zombies Inspired Halloween Game + Links to FREE Printables!

This year, for some fun this Halloween season, I made this game that me and Lauren played inspired and involving characters from the popular tower defense game "Plants VS Zombies". I call this game "zombie toss", I use a small empty cardboard box to create a zombie head that will be used to toss onto the plant characters. I used small disposable cups as stand of the plant characters. The cups hold prizes inside them that anyone can get from knocking down any of the plant characters. DISCLOSURE:   T his blog and post contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a commission should you chose to sign up for a program or make a purchase using my link. It’s okay – I love all of these companies and you will too! ABOUT THIS GAME I was thinking about Halloween themes for a DIY I could do this year just to enjoy the Halloween season and I remember "Plants VS Zombies", I have been playing this game on the computer in the past and it's one of the games I reall
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Shapes Autumn Tree / Autumn Craft

1-17-2017 -- In this post, I will be sharing an "autumn" craft idea . This was a craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) home school curriculum for the "au" sound as in "autumn". This is the most fun part of the curriculum, making the art projects. Lauren is going to make an "autumn" tree, I thought about ways how we can do this and came up with this idea of making an autumn tree with leaves out of different shapes such as diamond, oval, heart, and circle, branches made out of yarns and trunk out of craft sticks.


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 * craft sticks * oil pastel colors or crayons * brown yarn * glue * construction papers * pencil * scissors * coloring pens * hole puncher (optional)

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READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS: 
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 * cut shapes (for leaves of tree)

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DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT: 
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* Paper Background: Let child choose a construction paper to be used as background of their autumn tree. They can choose any color aside from what is shown.

* Trunk: Take 3 plain craft sticks, let child color sticks with brown oil pastel color or crayon. 

* Leaves: Cut different shape patterns such as oval, diamond, heart, circle, rectangles, triangle, etc. Allow child to choose at least 3 shapes they want to use as leaves for their autumn tree. Fold each construction paper to be used several times to create multiple sections in it. Trace shape pattern on top of folded paper, cut pattern to reveal many shapes in one cutting. 

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DONE BY CHILD:
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 * glue craft sticks on paper to create trunk

 * glue yarn to create branches

 * glue shapes on paper

 * Add/draw details on shapes

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STEPS IN CREATING THIS AUTUMN CRAFT:
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 1. Let child glue the three craft sticks side by side together using liquid glue on a construction paper to create the trunk.


2. Next, it's time to create the branches, let child make a pattern branch using liquid glue or lightly draw some branches using a pencil and allow the kid to just trace the pattern with liquid glue. Cut strands of brown yarns and let child glue yarns following the glue drawn pattern. They can glue 2 or 3 yarns side by side together to create one branch, do the same process as the first one until all branches are created. 


3. Once the branches are created, it's now time to glue the different shapes of leaves one by one onto the branches until a whole tree is created. 


4. Next, let child add some details on the leaves using different colors of coloring markers.


5. And there you go, the "shapes autumn tree" is DONE. The finished project came out nice and fun to look at. 

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 Learning is more fun when accompanied with music. Here is a nice "autumn" song for kids, with a lovely tune and words which clearly and simply speaks about what autumn is all about. 



LYRICS to "The Autumn Song" above

It's autumn, It's autumn

all the leaves are brown.
all the leaves are falling,
falling to the ground.

There are squirrels in the autumn,
Eating acorns as they play.
There are berries in the autumn,
and mushrooms everyday.

It's autumn, It's autumn

all the leaves are brown.
all the leaves are falling,
falling to the ground.

There are pumpkins in the autumn,
and chestnuts on the ground.
There are walnuts in the autumn,
and cobwebs all around.
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