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Here are some crafts to enjoy
and use for those special
times of the year! 
Enjoy!

Christmas Bear
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Paper Doll

Can You Find the Easter Eggs?
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http://crodillustration.blogspot.com/2009/04/bonus-color-me-easter-egg-hunt-activity.html

EASTER

A Bunny Box to Make

Cowboy Bunny to Put Together

An Easter Basket to Make

An Easter Bingo Game to Play

Play Tic Tac Toe de Bunny

Find the Carrot

Peter Cottontail Standups

How Many Easter Eggs Can You FInd?
easteregghunt.jpg
http://familyfun.go.com/printables/activity-sheet-hunt-for-easter-eggs-702582/

 

Easter Coloring Pages

HALLOWEEEEEENNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Skeletina
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(Courtesy of http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Holidays/Halloween/Crafts)

Mickey Mouse Meets a Haunted House
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Would you believe that Mickey Mouse visits A Haunted House (1929) with skeletons in Murphy beds, skeleton legs dancing . . . !  What fun!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LiPoIpxnk.
 
And for more about the Walt Disney cartoon, check out http://mmfolliesbw.blogspot.com/2007/11/haunted-house-december-2-1929.html
 

The Haunted House (1921) – Buster Keaton is falsely accused of theft at his bank job.  He manages gets away to a local haunted house – Surprise! – that seems to be haunted by not one ghost but a whole mess of them?!:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheHauntedHouse

 
THE MAD DOCTOR - Mickey Mouse dreams that an evil scientist has taken Pluto to his castle for a weird operation.  He's going to put Pluto's head on a hen's body.  Didn't Universal pictures do a couple of dozen movies like that?!:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JptWh-4kndk
 
LONESOME GHOSTS -- Some ghosts decide to scare up some fun by hiring some ghost hunters . . . Mickey Mouse, Dondald Duck and Goofy!:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47jWsdlvWwU&feature=search
     
Walt Disney La Danza Macabra The Skeleton Dance 1929:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoX_2DK1pTk&feature=related

The Haunted House (1921) – Buster Keaton is falsely accused of theft at his bank job.  He manages gets away to a local haunted house – Surprise! – that seems to be haunted by not one ghost but a whole mess of them?!:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheHauntedHouse

Mickey Mouse in
mickeyshauntedhouse1929.jpg
"The Haunted House" (1929)

Which reminds Maven and Charly that Halloween
will be here in little more than two months!
 
THE MAD DOCTOR - Mickey Mouse dreams that an evil scientist has taken Pluto to his castle for a weird operation.  He's going to put Pluto's head on a hen's body.  Didn't Universal pictures do a couple of dozen movies like that?!:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JptWh-4kndk
 
LONESOME GHOSTS -- Some ghosts decide to scare up some fun by hiring some ghost hunters . . . Mickey Mouse, Dondald Duck and Goofy!:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47jWsdlvWwU&feature=search
     
Walt Disney La Danza Macabra The Skeleton Dance 1929:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoX_2DK1pTk&feature=related

Mickey Mouse in
mickeyshauntedhouse1929.jpg
"The Haunted House" (1929)

Mickey Mouse visits A Haunted House (1929) skeletons in Murphy beds, skeleton legs dancing . . . !  What fun!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LiPoIpxnk.
 
And for more about the Walt Disney cartoon, check out http://mmfolliesbw.blogspot.com/2007/11/haunted-house-december-2-1929.html

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