Get ready for spooky fun with these Halloween activities for kids! From creative crafts to thrilling games, these activities are perfect for celebrating the season and adding a touch of Halloween magic to playtime.
This pumpkin spice puffy paint is everything I love about fall: cozy, fluffy and just the right amount of messy. Kids swirl it onto a pumpkin printable and end up with squishy, 3-D puffy paint pumpkins that make the whole house smell like pumpkin pie. It takes three main ingredients and about five minutes to … Read more
Some kids see a spider and scream. Mine? They name it, make it a tissue-box home, and ask if we can feed it a fly. If that sounds familiar, you’re gonna love this list of spider books for kids. These reads are equal parts science and storytime – packed with friendly eight-legged characters, fascinating web-building … Read more
It only took one backyard bat sighting for us to fall down the rabbit hole of bat books for kids. The kids screamed, I screamed (a little), and suddenly we were learning everything we could about these little night flyers. We’ve read them all since then: the funny ones, the sweet ones, and the beautifully … Read more
Our build a pumpkin play dough tray started the year my kids decided our jack-o’-lantern looked lonely. One pumpkin on the porch wasn’t cutting it. It clearly needed a whole family of squishy sidekicks. Now it’s a fall tradition. Kids roll a ball of orange dough, then add stems, seeds, eyes and twisty vines to … Read more
We fell down the rabbit hole of mummy books for kids after my youngest wrapped herself in a blanket and declared she was “Queen of the Mummies.” It was one of those afternoons when the couch cushions were stacked into pyramids, snack crumbs were the “buried treasure,” and I figured the only way out was … Read more