Create A Halloween Countdown

Happy October! It's time to create a fun Halloween countdown for your family to enjoy. Take some twigs or a branch from a tree. Put them in a vase or container of your choice. Gather some Halloween looking decorations or make some out of paper or fabric. What matters is that you get creative!

Buy a variety of treats, and little projects for your children to make such as Halloween necklaces. I found easy to make pumpkin necklaces at JoAnns fabric store for a dollar a piece! Very reasonable!

Punch holes in the items and hang them on the branches. I used some festive looking yarn. You can make little paper or fabric pockets to hang on your tree. Then fill them with goodies.

Each day your child can pick a treat to countdown the days until Halloween. If you like, put numbers on your pockets (I made my pockets out of envelopes and just punched holes in some of the candy to hang on the tree.) You could tie cute pencils, pens, erasers,whatever you like to create your Halloween tree.

Holidays are for families so why not take advantage to celebrate the whole fun month of October with your children!

Start a New Halloween Tradition

The best time to start a new holiday family tradition is before the holiday arrives! The Halloween holiday ushers in the beginning of the holiday season. Why not plan ahead and start a great family tradition that you can use this October!

Cute Halloween countdown calendars are a great way to come together each day as a family and open a window to reveal a joke, riddle or cute verse to a holiday poem. Young children have a hard time trying to understand how many days left until Halloween. Each day you open a window can help them countdown to their trick or treating tradition and this activity will help them see how many days left until you actually celebrate Halloween.

Good family time is often hard to come by these days so why not take every opportunity that comes your way to gather together and celebrate the days of October as you open the windows and see what cute picture and saying is behind each picture.