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DIY: Rice Krispie Treat Pumpkins

Each week at Cubbies, one of the little cuties is responsible for bringing back the cookie bucket full of, well, cookies for snack time.  This week was Sawyer’s week.  (Don’t tell me you’re surprised that I signed up for a fun week…)  You don’t have to bring cookies so we decided to make Rice Krispie treat pumpkins and they turned out really cute!

You’ll need:

  • 3 Tablespoons butter
  • 1 package of marshmallows
  • 5 cups of Rice Krispie cereal
  • orange food coloring
  • 15 mini Tootsie Rolls

1.) Melt down your butter and marshmallows over medium heat.

De-lish
De-lish

2.) Add in the food coloring and then coat your Krispies.

Halloween in a bowl
Halloween in a bowl

3.) While these cool, unwrap your Tootsie Rolls.

You should eat a few for good measure
You should eat a few for good measure

4.) Coat your hands in butter and shape your Krispies into a ball of sorts.

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Note the buttery hands

5.) Make a well and insert the Tootsie Roll in top.  We curved ours for a little character.

Perfect pumpkins
Purdy pumpkins

These are super easy and super cute!  Are you seeing a theme here regarding the kinds of projects I like?  🙂

 

Fall Outdoor Tour

After our post-church pumpkin patch excursion, we came home and cleaned out our flower beds and set out our newest finds.  A few of our plants are still flowering and thriving, so we left them in to pretty up the place until a hard freeze hits.

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I love those stripey guys
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A little bit of spring mixed with the fall
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This little green box was Wrexy’s first show box.  Love.
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Hay hay hay
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Oh yes, we have a few of those
The long view
The long view
And down the other side
And down the other side

Sawyer had fun helping arrange all of the pumpkins and gourds!  I’m just wondering how long it will stay looking like this.  1.) I’m hoping the chickens don’t help themselves to any of my decor and 2.) Little Miss likes to REarrange them every time she walks out the door.

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Setting sun, pre-corn stalks
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From the road
From the road
From the road, again

Sawyer thoroughly enjoyed helping us carry the corn “sticks.”

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Gorgeous sunset behind the barn
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And a pretty cool moon, too
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The heavens declare the glory of the LORD!

Indeed.  As we prayed tonight, we thanked Him for all of the beautiful things He made that point man to Him…including pumpkins…and especially, our pumpkins.  And I don’t mean the orange ones.