October Fun

Last October, my friend Christie came up with a daily activity for her kids to do in anticipation of Halloween. Even though Halloween is not my favorite holiday, I love any reason to celebrate - especially if I can get my kids involved. Christie posted her new list for this month here if you're interested in getting some ideas - she even provides the links for you. I am borrowing some of her ideas and we came up with a few of our own during FHE this week. We wrote our ideas and activities on little squares of paper and put them in this advent calendar that I bought on clearance last year after the season had passed. Coming up with ideas was pretty fun, especially with Trent's input. His very first, almost immediate request was that we learn and perform the Thriller dance. Done.
The rest of the activities we chose are pretty simple to accommodate Ty's short attention span. Most of them are free and don't take long. Here is a short list of things we are doing:

Movie night - for every Saturday we chose a Halloween themed movie, age appropriate for Ty. We picked Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin and a few Disney specials. There are many more options if you have older kids.

Family outings - we are heading to Apple Annie's in a few weeks to pick our pumpkins straight from the patch. We will also be heading to Mother Nature's Farm for a hayride.

Crafts - Ty is not into crafts so I found some quick and simple things to do

Slime - I found this recipe for making goo that I can't wait to try!

Corndy Corn Art - at our house candy c orn has always been called corndy corn. With paper and some glue, I think we can come up with a lovely piece of art.

Boo Banquet - we will be inviting some friends over for a frightening feast one Sunday afternoon.

The rest of our days are filled with preschool coloring pages, baking, Halloween books, and my favorite this year, Halloween BINGO! Thanks Christie for all the fun ideas! If you have any fun Halloween activities you do at your house, please share!