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Halloween Fun with Feisty Pets

This Halloween, we are having fun with these two adorable Feisty Pets from Jazwares! But don’t be fooled by their innocent cute faces. They can get very nasty when you make them very angry! Probably best to stay on the good side of the Feisty Pets!

Both my children were delighted when they saw Sir Growls-A-Lot and Princess Pottymouth. They are nine and ten years old and they both still love their cuddly toys, especially as these Feisty Pets come with the surprise element! Both of them absolutely love the angry side of their pets! They find it very fun and unique!

Halloween Pumpkin Carving Challenge

This week, I have been set a Halloween Pumpkin Carving challenge by my favourite brand Ryobi to carve our pumpkins with a twist! We were asked to use any ONE+ tool to carve a pumpkin! As regular readers may know, we have taken on various projects from building Pallet Playhouse, Pallet Climbing Frame and testing out the 36V Fusion Cordless Lawnmower. We are no strangers to Ryobi and are thrilled to be part of this project.

Last year, Ryobi had carved their Ryobi pumpkins using a ONE+ multi-tool and this year they want their followers to try their hand at carving a pumpkin using any ONE+ tool. You can either download the design from their pumpkin carving templates or it could be an original design! Remember to follow @RyobiToolsEU and tweet using #RyobiPumpkinChallenge hashtag to showcase your awesome pumpkins!

After looking around on Pinterest and Google for ideas using drills, I decided to carve a Tinkerbell pumpkin and a Flowery Pattern pumpkin using the Ryobi ONE+ drill.

Halloween Movie Night In with HMV

This half term, we had a family friendly Halloween movie night in. Thanks to HMV sending us a box full of sweets, balloons, face paints, fangs, candles, a game, Casper DVD and The Addams Family Values DVD to help us to start this ultimate family night in!

Meccano MeccaSpider Review

Meccano MeccaSpider is an interactive robotic creepy crawly spider that is made from space-age materials. It can be controlled using built-in buttons, or with the free Meccano app! It also comes with built-in games. It is suitable for aged 10 and above.

The Walking Dead mazes open at Thorpe Park

Two new exclusives for 2017 are themed around The Walking Dead mazes, to mark the launch of the Thorpe Park’s annual ‘Fright Nights’ season which had started on 29^th September 2017. Have you been yet? Unfortunately, we are not able to make it this time but wanted to share this news to my fellow readers!

Gandey’s Circus Review

The award-winning Gandey’s Circus is an unmissable show featuring an array of international artistes from around the globe and they came to Bloxwich last week! We were thoroughly entertained by their outstanding performance.

Five Nights at Freddy’s Review

One of the world’s most popular scary video games Five Nights at Freddy’s has been brought to life in a 3D form! This is suitable for aged eight and above.

This game comes with Freddy Fazbear figure, pizza tray, 24 coloured pizza tokens, tongs, spinner wheel and instructions. It requires three AA batteries which are not included. It is very easy to set up and didn’t take me more than two minutes to do it. Freddy can also be easily removed from the pizza tray for storage. The game is very well made, authentic and Freddy looks especially scary with the horror music!

Zombie Magic & Gross Practical Jokes Review

Does your child love magic and to play jokes on their friends? Then check out this Zombie Magic and Gross Practical Jokes from John Adams that offers you 35 good tricks and 45 practical jokes! These sets are suitable for aged seven and above.

Zombie Magic

This is a brand new zombie-themed box of dead good illusions makes magic loads of fun. It comes with all you need for all 35 tricks plus instruction leaflet. By making maggots appear and disappear in a spooky coffin. Then stab multiple swords through zombie’s solid brains or discover the zombie foot with a broken leg which only you can reconnect! You can scare someone silly by making a zombie brain appear in a specimen jar, or by vanishing blood stained handkerchiefs.

LEGO Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood Movie

Happy Halloween everyone! Last week, we had a fabulous Halloween sleepover watching Scooby-Doo and his gang in their first Lego movie! LEGO Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood Movie is a full length, animated movie which is available to buy from high street stores and Amazon.

Nocto The Light Up Bat with Battitude

This Halloween, we have Nocto, an interactive teenage bat with a glowing personality who likes nothing more than to hang around, sleep and listen to music. He is just like my children and is also prone to serious mood swings and can be seriously temperamental when provoked! He might sound a bit scary but in fact, he does have a gentle side! He loves to show off his aerobatic skills and likes to do night watch to keep you safe!

WILD! Science Kits Review

This coming Friday, we are celebrating a week of British Science Week events which will kick off on 11^th March to 20^th March 2016. To help us with a range of science activities, WILD! Science has a range of science kits that are designed with great play value whilst exploring fascinating scientific principles.

Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 42

A huge welcome to Week 42 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! Just a reminder that this linky will occur every fortnight. Therefore this will be open for two weeks until 30^thOctober 2015 so you have plenty of time to link with us! This week I am featuring three no carve pumpkins.

Halloween Paper Plate Crafts

This is my tenth challenge as a Bostik Blogger and this month’s theme is Halloween. Once again, I have received a crafting box packed with coloured paper, ribbons, foams, Blu Tack Glu Dots, Blu Tack Glu & Fix and many more Halloween themed items.

As we were provided three mini paper plates, we decided to make three different types of Halloween paper plate crafts: Pumpkin, Spider and Web.

Halloween Ghost Chicken Cupcake

After watching the last episode of Great British Bake Off 2015, I was quite sad that I won’t have any more fabulous bakes to look forward to each week to inspire and challenge myself. Nevertheless, Taste100 is challenging bloggers to create hen-inspired cakes to be judged by ex-Bake Off contestant, Chetna Makan!

As the more creative the bake is, the better chance of winning a Mason Cash Bakers Set, along with a Cath Kidston set of containers and apron. So thinking outside the box – since Halloween is coming, I decided to mix both hen and ghost spirits together. I bring to you this Halloween Ghost Chicken Cupcake!

Since I had tried to bake coffee cupcakes, I decided I needed to try to bake tea cupcakes next! I am a big fan of green tea. It is very light and fragrant. The best way to achieve a tasty green tea cake is to use the green tea powder rather than brew from the tea leaves. However, I did find it hard to get the green tea powder from our area, but I do know that they can be found easily in London or Chinatown.

Anyway, I have a box of green tea bags, so I decided to use them. I didn’t want to put the leaves into the cake as my children probably won’t like it hence the flavour and colour are not a very strong shade of green.

Halloween Duck Tape Hat & Bat

We love Duck Tape in this house as it comes in so handy for so many crafts! We have made so many things using it. Recently, we have received a range of their Halloween-themed Duck Tapes: bats, pumpkins, white, black and orange.

So we decided to make a Halloween Hat for a Halloween party! To make this hat, you would need to use a big and small bowl to make a template.