Halloween 2012

Every day the boys wanted to be something else for Halloween. At first I thought that would be problematic, but then I realized the beauty in it - I could pick any one of the things they mentioned, and they're young enough to still get excited about it! Ultimately we stuck with Henry's astronaut idea. Jimmy and I were Mars and Venus (we had a couples party to go to, so we had to do something that would work as a pair!). 

 We've been on a space kick lately, talking about space shuttles, the Mars rover Curiosity, planets, etc, so this was kind of fun. I followed a lot of the tutorial here, but used yard sale football helmets we had. For the planets, I just painted some cardboard circles.

As a fortunate misfortune, I didn't have any red paint (it was all dried up), so I used some homemade puffy paint from Train Up a Child and dyed it red. It turned out awesome! You can kind of see the texture in this picture - raised and rough, and it even sparkled a little because of the salt!

For Levi, we used water bottles instead of the 2 liter bottles.