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Creating Meaningful Halloween Moments with Teens
The Changing Face of Family Traditions As children grow up, so do their interests. Halloween, once filled with excitement over costumes, trick-or-treating, and house decorations, can start to lose its appeal for teenagers. As a parent, it’s natural to feel a bit nostalgic for those younger years when Halloween was a big event, but it’s also important to recognize that traditions can—and should—evolve as your family changes. This Halloween, why not create new traditions that feel more meaningful and aligned with your teens’ current interests? Just because they’ve outgrown certain aspects of the holiday doesn’t mean you can’t find special ways to mark the occasion. In this article, we’ll explore…
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Embrace Cozy Living: Tips for Slowing Down This Autumn
As the world seems to move faster every day, I’ve found myself craving stillness and warmth. Autumn is the perfect season for slowing down—there’s something about the crisp air and cozy evenings that makes me want to press pause and just *be*. Cozy living isn’t just about soft blankets and candles (though those are definitely a part of it); it’s about embracing intentional moments of calm and finding joy in the slower rhythms of life. Today, I’m sharing a few simple ways I’ve been practicing intentional slowing down this season, and how you can too! The Importance of Slowing Down In our fastpaced world, we’re constantly “on”—whether it’s through our…
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5 Autumn /Fall Books for Preschoolers
These 5 beautiful picture books about Autumn are my little girl’s favourites at the moment. We have a book rack in our kitchen that we use to display seasonal books and since I took out all of our Autumn and Halloween themed books last week she has been fascinated by these five in particular. Our 5 Favourite Autumn Picture Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers Millie-Mae in Autumn – Natalie Marshal: This is a stunningly beautiful board book, in my opinion. It is described as a touch-and-learn book and its glittery and shiny details throughout really do encourage children to interact with the book. What’s perfect about this book is that…
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5 Fab Non Fiction Autumn, Fall, Halloween Books for Kids
These 5 books for younger children about Autumn/Fall and Halloween are great for teaching children about the season and associated festivals in a simple and informative manner with some great photos and facts! Our Top 5 Non Fiction Books about Autumn and Halloween Halloween – National Geographic Kids- Laura Marsh: This is a fantastic Level 1 book jam packed with lots of colour photos and fun facts about Halloween, with a joke or two thrown in too! Its aimed at kids who are just beginning to read on their own but we love to read it together at bedtime as my children are not yet reading indepently. The book also…
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Halloween Playdough – A Ghoulish Invitation to Play and Create!
Playdough provides children with endless possibilities to play and create as well as developing all sorts of physical and cognitive skills. As Halloween is not a million miles off, I thought it was time to make some Halloween inspired playdough and invite my little munchkins to get creepily creative!!!!!! After Christmas, Halloween is my favourite holiday! Mind you, I love to celebrate and decorate for every holiday and festival throughout the year!!!! However, being a teacher this is usually the first holiday of the year that we really get to focus on and get creative with and as a result I have built up a tonne of resources and ideas…
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Cornstarch / Cornflour Dough Pumpkin Hanging Decorations
Cornstarch dough is the perfect dough for making decorations to hang on a tree. These cute little pumpkins are great for this time of year to add an autumnal feel plus they are perfect for Halloween and Thanksgiving too! We have a plain white tree/branch in a tin bucket in our home all year round. As the seasons change we change the decorations on it. Currently we have the clay autumn leaves we recently made hanging on it as well as some fabric fall coloured leaves, but we felt it was lacking a little something! So, we decided to make cute little pumpkins to hang on it too. We have…
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2 Quick and Easy Hedgehog Art Projects – Autumn / Fall Art for Kids
2 Quick and Easy Hedgehog Art Projects for Kids. Oodles (almost 3yo) and I had alot of fun with these two little paint projects this morning.Since we made our hedgehog collages last week she has been eager to do some more hedgehog activities and these are what we came up with. 1. Sponge Painting Hedgehogs What we used: paint pot scrub sponges (with rough side and sponge side) paper paint brushes What we did: Using the sponges we painted a mound shape To make the spikes we used the rough side of the sponge and dragged it up through the paint We added a face and snout with our brushes…
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Yummy After School Snack – Mixed Autumn Vegetable Soup
Homemade Autumn / Fall Vegetable Soup – a perfect after school snack Homemade soup and some brown bread or a bread roll is a perfect after school snack plus its a great way of getting lots of fresh vegetables into children! I make a big pot of this soup or something similar every Sunday so that it is to hand in the fridge for the week ahead. It’s a tasty, nutritious snack, perfect for hungry school kids and will keep them going until dinner time! Ingredients: Any vegetables that you like and best to use those that are currently in season! 1 Butternut Squash 1 Sweet Potato 1 Green pepper…
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10 Fantastic Fall Activities for Kids – Autumn Arts, Crafts and Lots More!
10 Fantastic Fall Activities for Kids – Autumn arts, crafts and lots more from my some of my favourite bloggers and pinners! 10 Fantastic Autumn Activities for Kids I have pinned! (if you click on the the “pins” displayed below it will take straight to each blogger’s own pin to repin to your own boards) 1. If you haven’t already, you should check out Kyla’s – The Train Driver’s Wife – blog – it is full of amazing and creative activities for babies and toddlers. I love this fun colourful activity for encouraging babies to discover autumn colours. 2. Craftulate is one of my favourite websites for creative and fun…
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Autumn / Fall Coloured Play Dough – Quick and Simple Recipe
A quick and simple recipe for Autumn / Fall coloured playdough. This playdough is perfect for all sorts of autumn themed play activities. It quick and simple to make and should last for a number of weeks if kept in an air tight container in the fridge. Ingredients: (per individual colour) 1 cup flour 1 cup salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon or mixed spice or a few drops of your autumn scented oil of choice 1 dessert sp olive oil 1 tbsp paint colour of choice (red, orange, brown, yellow, gold) 1/4 cup of water (may need a little more) Method: If using a food processor, which I did for…
