15 Fun Things to Do With the Kids in October

Coming up with new ways to keep your little ones entertained can seem an impossible task at times, so each month I will offer up a few fun ideas that you and your children might enjoy. Have fun!

1. Go apple picking.

2. Visit a pumpkin patch.

3. Jump in leaves.

4. Make a homemade Halloween costume.   

5. Put together treat bags for their class or daycare.

6. Get out in the yard and plant tulip bulbs. (They'll bloom in the spring.)

7. Decorate pumpkins.

8. Gather leaves and make an art project together.

9. Bundle up and go on a family bike ride.

10. Have a pre-Halloween costume fashion show.

11. Bake or buy an apple pie and take it to a shelter or retirement home.

12. Decorate the house in preparation for trick-or-treaters. 

13. Bake these cookies and watch a non-scary Halloween-y movie. We like It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

14. Taste pumpkin ice cream. 

15. Make a home video to Michael Jackson's Thriller, complete with choreography and creepy Vincent Price voice.

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