Fall and the Trick or Treat season offer so many choices for family members to spend quality time together. Here are just a few ideas.
Visit A Local Pumpkin Farmstead.
Throughout the month of October, pumpkin suppliers usually have fairs like live music, hayrides, and crafts, not to mention the opportunity to hand select your very personal pumpkin right off the plant.
Pumpkin Painting
Paint your halloween pumpkins instead of carving them. Carving pumpkins is a great hobby during Halloween, but this can be dangerous to small kids. This is great for kids who want to celebrate the Halloween like adults safely. If you want to learn more about Pumpkin Painting and how your kids can enjoy this unique seasonal hobby, go to EZPumpkinPainting
Create an Eerie Halloween Record Together.
Is there a graveyard nearby? Why not make a movie as a family while you’re all in your scary halloween costumes? You can roleplay as your characters and create a story from your imagination.
Take a video of mom or grandma cooking creepy Halloween cookies or Grandpa drinking greenish looking witch’s brew (it’s just lemonade with green food coloring). Capture the moment when the youngest member of the family dresses as a goblin and tries to feed a piece of macabre heart (cookies wrapped in blood-red icing) to his trusty demon hound (your pet dog in his own costume).
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This is a great hobby to put together an enduring home ritual. The entire family will get to decide on the characters, now and then making non-living things like pumpkins and candy corn come alive. Once you create the personas, the background and the narrative, you will be flabbergasted how much each family member wishes to play a part in the legend. Set aside your annual account in a DVD, CD or a folder and read or view the homemade videos or stories from previous years. It’s a remarkable memory.
Sep 25, 2009 | Growing Up Stories, Sentimental Hobbies, family traditions
One of the most challenging things about building a scrapbook is choosing which photos to include. If you have a lot of photos, it might take a while before you can really choose the ones that fit your scrapbook’s theme and flow.
Organizing your photos can also be very sentimental. You will see the photos of better times and the memories will just come to you. One downside to building a scrapbook is feeling that nostalgia, and being extremely aware that the events have all happened in the PAST. Nonetheless, your task of organizing your family photos for your scrapbook is a fitting tribute to those memories, and should not be considered a chore.
Here are some steps to effectively and rapidly organize your family photos
1. First, designate an are inside your house for your project. The space must be free of clutter initially, to allow you to move the photos around as you sort through them.
2. Next, put the photos that are promising (in terms of inclusion in the scrapbook), and put away those that are damaged. Polaroid pictures should be piled separately because they leak and may damage the others permanently.
3. Make copies of the photos you chose. These will allow you to be creative and not worry about making mistakes.
4. Start arranging the photos again, this time in chronological order, by events, by the people in the photos or by holidays.
Some more Helpful Tips
If you’re compiling photos for a wedding scrapbook, you should include the photos of the couple while growing up.
If it’s a family tree, organize according to the side of the family the photos were from.
Apr 18, 2009 | Scrapbook, Sentimental Hobbies, Sentimental Thoughts
Stamp collecting is popular but few know why anymore. Younger generations must be able to understand that this is not only an interesting hobby, it’s also a way to learn about history and other cultures. Many of the collectible stamps are valuable; and some are really rare.
If someone gives you a collection of stamps, the first thing you need to do is buy an album and special stamp tapes (hinges). You will also need some special tools like tweezers for handling the stamps, particularly the older ones. The details of the stamps must be preserved well to maintain their value, so keeping them in mint condition is important.
How to Collect Stamps and Maintain a Stamp Collection if You’re a Beginner?
1. If you don’t already have a large collection of stamps to mount, you can start by collecting stamps on the letters you received during the last holiday. Meticulously rip away the envelope encircling the stamp but be mindful not to rip apart the stamp itself. Next, immerse the stamp in lukewarm water. The residual piece of paper will be hanging free, permitting you to raise the stamp from the water with the tweezers.
Dry the stamp on an absorbent surface then press using a hardcover book. Stamp collectors are very patient people, and show a lot of precision when handling stamps.
2. Take the flattened stamp and position it inside the album. You may also store it in small, clear plastic envelopes used by stamp collectors.
What are the different stamp designs?
Whether you’re an avid collector or an interested beginner, you know that stamps are varied, beautiful works of art that might just get phased out with increasing advances in technology. Think of stamp collecting as a way of preserving this art works.
1. Commemorative stamps are those released by the local postal service for a duration. These usually feature special people or group of people and events.
2. Nature, animals, artworks and paintings. Some stamps will look colorful and abstract. These are artworks of budding and famous artists immortalized in stamps. There are many who won’t see the value of these but those who think far into the future will realize that these are worth collecting. The younger generations must be willing to take on the fun of stamp collecting, and it is the role of their elders to point them in that direction.
Mar 24, 2009 | Sentimental Hobbies, Sentimental Thoughts
