Our Favorite Halloween Books

There are hundreds and hundreds of children's Halloween books out there and it can be hard to decide which ones to purchase or check out from the library. We own the majority of these but some we have checked out at the library and loved. The library is so great to check out holiday books if you're not wanting to buy them but still want your kids to experience the joy of reading festive stories. Here's a list of some of our favorites!

1. Five Black Cats by Patricia Hegarty

2. Biscuit's Pet & Play Halloween by Alyssa Satin Capucilli 

3. Monster Party by Nate Evans

4. All Hallows Eve: The Story of the Halloween Fairy by Lisa Sferlazza Johnson.

  

5. Tricked For Treats by Sarah Willson

6. Fancy Nancy Candy Bonanza by Jane O'Connor

7. Curious George Haunted Halloween by H. A. Rey

8. Room on the Broom by Julie Donaldson 

9. Sweet and Spooky Halloween by RH Disney

10. Happy Halloween, Hello Kitty by Becky Gold

11. Hooray for Halloween! by Diane Wright Landolf 

12. Doc McStuffins Boo to You!

13. Corduroy's Halloween by B.G. Hennessy 

14. At the Old Haunted House by Helen Ketteman

15. 10 Trick-or-Treaters by Janet Schulman 

16. The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing

17. Inside a House That is Haunted by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

18. Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

19. Sofia the First Halloween Ball by Lisa Ann Marsoli

20. Halloween at Creepy Castle by Alison Inches

21. The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk by Stan Berenstain

22. Fisher Price Little People Halloween is Here

23. Pinkalicious Pink or Treat! by Victoria Kann

24. Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex

25. Franklin's Halloween by Paulette Bourgeois 

26. A-Boo-C by Pamela Jane

27. Pete The Cat: Five Little Pumpkins by James Dean

28. The Tiniest Pumpkin by Janet Craig 

29. Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino 

30. Happy Halloween, Ladybug Girl by David Soman

 

31. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz 

32. Trixie the Halloween Fairy by Daisy Meadows

33. Allie Gator's Halloween Ride by Ted Williams

34. Happy Halloween! by Rosemary Wells

35. Mrs. Jeepers' Scariest Halloween Ever by Debbie Dadey

36.

The Beast Who Couldn't Say Boo by Amanda Agee

37. We're Off To Find The Witches House by Mr. Krieb

38. The Halloween Secret by Dandi Daley Mackall

39. Can You Make The Monster Giggle?

40. The Witch Next Door by Norman Bridwell

41. Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara


42. Sam's First Halloween by Mary Labatt


43. The Big Halloween Scare by Steven Banks


44. Trick-or-Treat Safety by Megan C Peterson


45. And Then Comes Halloween by Tom Brenner


46. Clifford's First Halloween by Norman Bridwell


47. Happy Halloween!


48. Spooky Bunny Tales


49. The Witch Who Couldn't Fly: A Glow in the Dark Book) by Mary Packard


50. Let's Celebrate Halloween by Peter and Connie Roop


51. Aliens Don't Carve Jack-O'-Lanterns by Debbie Dadey

Spider Web Sensory Play

For a lot of kids digging their hands into a messy shaving cream sensory play is really fun! You can do so much with shaving cream from the dollar store, you can make bath paint, do shaving cream and ice in the summer, and in the fall you can even make

SPIDER WEBS FOR SENSORY PLAY!

Just get out a tot tray and squirt some shaving cream right out of the can onto the tray in a spider web shape. Then add on some plastic spiders and/or spider rings. Your kids will do the rest!

Pumpkin Printing

Who doesn't love a good printing craft? I know we love to do apple prints so these pumpkin prints were fun! Only we didn't use a pumpkin, we used a potato cut into a pumpkin shape!
                                      

All you have to do for this activity is cut a potato into a pumpkin shape like the one shown above and then give it to your little one on a fork so they can just hold the fork and do it that way. 

I provided a plate of orange paper and a large sheet of painting paper. Orange paint because we mostly thing of orange when we think of pumpkins. 

This craft turns into a really pretty work of art that you will be able to display in your home all fall long!

Halloween Word Wall

Here's our Halloween word wall!

For this word wall I for some reason really didn't want to see the brown cork of the board like always, so I stuck a black piece of fabric to it first before putting the words up. The words I did on orange paper with a black Sharpie, and then cut out with funky scissors.

The words are:
- Halloween
- October
- Orange
- Ghost
- Spooky
- Bat
- Trick or Treat
- Vampire
- Carve
- Mummy
- Frightful
- Candy
- Spider
- Coffin
- Costume
- Jack o lantern
- Skeleton
- Cauldron
- Witch
- Goblin