Great American Smokeout

Happy Joe Lucky Comic Strip

You'll like it. Women like it.

Because the noise alone isn't enough.

Promoting youth and beauty!

Geez, that looks like a stinky room!

Smoking and exercise go hand in hand.

"Happy Birthday Dad, we know your A B Cs!"

Doctors prefer Camels for our soldiers.

Ooh, that's sexy!

Sneaky Granny

"Gee, Dad, you always get the best of everything!"

Throat protection

She looks familiar!

Cuz if you're gonna smoke, it's gotta be pretty

I know I'd rather be thin with a raspy voice, stinky house, asthmatic kids, yellow fingers...

You can prove there's no unpleasant aftertaste!

"Ooooo!"

She likes a smokin' hot fella.

Aparently, pipes are like astrology.

"You need this throat protection!"

Facts up in smoke

"Blow in her face and she'll follow you anywhere."

Well, if doctors smoke them...

no comment

Quite the comparison.

Athletic smokers. That's realistic.

Start'em right from school.

"Mighty easy on the throat."

"An army man must keep fit.

Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet."

"To keep a slender figure

Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet."

Phillipss Milk of Magnesia

Minimize the After-Effects.

"I like what you like"

Miss America smokes Lucky Strike!

Forever and ever...

well, maybe not.

Ideas For Halloween



Little Zombie Pumpkins

Stick an old baby monitor inside your pumkin this year, maybe you have a Jack that tells jokes!  or simply says, "Boo!"



Owl Pumpkin

 

Vine and Leaf Carved Pumpkin



Spider Candy Holder



Coloring Page



Pumpkin Color Page



Spider Coloring Page



Cat in Pumpkin Page



Pumpkin



From Living on a Dime:

Face Paint
1 tsp. corn starch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream
food coloring

Mix all ingredients together in an old muffin pan and you are ready
to paint. This amount makes one color.


Fake Wound1 Tbsp Vaseline
tissue
cocoa powder
2-3 drops red food coloring

Place Vaseline in a bowl. Add food coloring. Blend with a
toothpick. Stir in a pinch of cocoa to make a darker blood color.
Separate tissue. Using 1 layer, tear a 2x3 inch piece and place at
wound site. Cover with petroleum jelly and mold into the shape of a
wound. The center should be lower than the sides. Fill the center
with the red petroleum jelly mixture. Sprinkle center with some
cocoa. Sprinkle a little around the edges of the wound to make
darker.


Wormy Apples
6 apples
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine
1/2 tsp. each ground cinnamon and nutmeg
6 gummy worms
1 cup whipping cream,(optional)

Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact. Mix
raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set
apples, stems up in a 9x13 pan. In a saucepan, mix brown sugar,
water, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir over high heat until
mixture boils. Pour hot syrup around apples. Bake, uncovered, at
350 degrees, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are
tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 35 minutes.
Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes.

Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit. In the
top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy
worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm
dangling. Offer cream to pour over apples. Makes 6 servings.

Medusa with rubber snakes in the hair



Rosegarden



Beehive



Pumpkin Bird Feeder

 





Shel Silverstein's Birthday

Did you know that there's a Shel Silverstein website?  I discovered this as I was researching to write this post!  Oh, my kids are gonna love this!  Who doesn't have a favorite Silverstein poem?

1955, Pacific Stars and Stripes

Shel Silverstein was born today in 1930.  He began writing at age 12, as he wasn't athletic.  He was unfamiliar with classic poetry, so developed his own style.  While he served in the Korean War, he was a cartoonist for Pacific Stars and Stripes.  After his service he was a cartoonist for Playboy, until his success with writing for children.

Our long-time favorite, The Giving Tree was actually his second book, written in 1964.  (Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back was his first, in 1963.)  He had a difficult time getting it published.  It was too short, too sad, too in-between adult and children's literature.  Eventually, an editor at Harpor Children's Books allowed it, saying "because life, you know , has pretty sad endings."

He returned to humor and wrote many books throughout the 1960's, 70s and 80's.  He also began to write screenplays and lyrics and compose music, such as A Boy Named Sue in 1969, a number one hit for Johnny Cash. 

 I wrote my own little poem, vaguely resembling (tongue in cheek) Silverstein's Sarah Silvia Cinthia Stout about laundry.  It was fun and silly and something that I think would be a great creative writing exercise for kids.

I've bookmarked the website above and plan to share it with the kids.  I think it'll be a favorite for awhile.  Enjoy some Silverstein with the kids tonight, friends!