Halloween Trunk or Treat

Decorate the trunk of your car to look like Noah’s Ark, complete with all of those stuffed animals your children have collected over the years.  Hand the candy out from a feed sack.  Everyone knows he had to have a lot of feed for all of those animals on that big boat.  Draw the boat on a large piece of cardboard, or use a large roll of brown mailing paper.  This works well because you can draw the boards of the boat on the paper, and they are already the right color!

Mrs. Noah can be standing on deck, making sure the animals don’t jump ship (have a large piece of brown paper or cardboard surrounding the ground outside of the trunk).  Find a pair of stuffed doves (get them at wedding displays in stores) to perch on the top of the open trunk with a sprig of artificial leaves in one of their beaks.  You could also draw the doves on white poster board and tape them to the open trunk.

If you have two of some of the stuffed animals, place them beside each other.  The more believable you make the Ark, the more fun the children will have.  Place a bale of hay on the deck for Mrs. Noah to sit on, if she gets tired of standing.  The animals ate that while they were in the ark all 40 days and nights too.  Get the whole family involved in drawing the Ark.  Children enjoy all the activity of getting ready for festive occasions, and coloring is one thing they can do well.  Praising them for the art work they create will help build their self esteem.

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