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  • Our Favorite Halloween Traditions!

    Our Favorite Halloween Traditions!

    Halloween is not the biggest holiday at our house (that would definitely be Christmas), but I do love celebrating holidays with kids and my kids love this time of year! We stick with “fun” for Halloween with a touch of creepy atmosphere rather than scary or gory. One thing I love to remember about traditions…

  • 25+ Picture Books Perfect for Halloween!

    When I get out our Halloween decorations, I also haul up our big pile of seasonal books to read throughout the month together. It’s both my favorite thing and my kids’ favorite thing! We love our “Halloween” books–some are actually about Halloween, some are a little creepy or about Halloween related things like monsters, and…

  • 15 Fun Halloween Books for Toddlers!

    There is nothing I love more than reading holiday-themed books with my kids! Especially as fall comes and it means the start of the holiday season, there is something about pulling out holiday themed books and snuggling up on the couch together. It’s especially fun with young toddlers and preschoolers, who are so excited about…

  • Halloween Homeschool Activities 2025

    One of my favorite parts of homeschooling is during the holidays when we can theme a lot of our school activities around the holiday! With a baby, I’m feeling a little behind, but I have started planning some Halloween homeschool activities to do with the kids this Halloween and I wanted to share them here!…

  • Our Favorite Halloween Movies for Kids!

    My kids love Halloween (especially our middlest child) and I love holidays! However, we are not a family who loves gore or super scary movies (my kids are also not super sensitive). I have a fun list of “Halloween-y” movies that fit our family just right that I love to pull out each fall. Some…

  • A Mini “Skeleton Unit Study” for Halloween!

    I love doing holiday-themed activities with my kids and this year I decided to choose one Halloween-y topic to dive deeper into with my kids! I picked skeletons and we had a lot of fun with it. Books on Skeletons The core of our unit studies are always books. Here are the books we read…