20 Children’s Books for Fall

One of my daughter’s kindergarten assignments is to read 20 books each month. We already read a book a day with my daughter, but with lots of repeats and with the holidays coming I decided to create a themed list of books for us to be able to explore new books and to make it a little more fun.

I have found some great lists of book on the Internet. You can find some of my pins here that contain some of the lists, but I wanted to gather one that I know would interest my daughter. Plus it makes it easier for us to find books that we know are at the library or friends have them so we do not have to buy too many new ones. One of our traditions I to get our girls a new book of their choice every month.

The list for the month of October is going to be Fall and Halloween themed. Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to share some of your favorite children’s books in the comments.  (I have provided links to each book but I am not affiliated with them, so no I do not get paid if you click on them).

How many seeds in a pumpkin

 Pumpkin Town!

Curious George Apple Harvest

Ten Red Apples

Apples and Pumpkins

Fancy Nancy and the Fall Foliage

Fancy Nancy: Halloween or Bust

Fancy Nancy Apples Gallore

The costume copycat

The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin 

Happy Halloween Curious George

Room on the Broom

Sofia the First Halloween Ball

Black Cat Creeping

It’s the Great pumpkin Charlie Brown

Where is my mummy?

The Little Old lady who wasn’t afraid of Anything

The Spooky Smells of Halloween

Halloween Hustle

Spooky House

Easy Leaf Artwork

It is not a secret that fall comes to Southern California a lot later than the other states, but the heat has been very unbearable in the past few weeks. As I had mentioned a couple of days ago I am in the process of gathering and making items for my fall mantle. I have already done the rag banner and I am now adding an easy leaf artwork to the mix.

When I received my polka star stencil from Royal Studio’s for the playroom,  I also received a small leaf stencil that I knew I wanted to use. As I had mentioned before I love their stencils but you can always print a left onto a paper and trace it onto the wood or get a similar stencil from the craft store.

For this project I used a scrap wood that I had from home. The size of the piece is 7.5” x 7.5”.  I used some of my fall inspired colors for the sign and of course you can use colors that inspire you too. Below are the instructions.

Fall Rag Banner

 

You might remember my patriotic rag banner, if not you can see it here. For the past year I have been really loving the rag banner. It just gives that texture and added character to the mantle or the party table or even a room decoration, depending on where you use it.  I am in the process of decorating my mantle for fall before switching it to Halloween in a couple of weeks, and decided to do another rag banner.

As I had said before what I love most about this project is that I can have it done in less than an hour. It’s a project that can be done while watching TV at night, watching the kids play, heck, they can even help you. 

The instructions are easy: 1) Gather your fabric of choosing. 2) Cut it into strips in the width desired. 3) Fold the fabric strips and loop into the twine 4) Repeat with all the fabric strips in the pattern, fullness, and length of the banner desired.  You are done!

 

Lanterns

I love decorating with lanterns. They can be used all year round: spring, summer, fall and winter. You can find lanterns practically in any home decor store: Pottery Barn, Home Goods, Target, IKEA, West Elm, to name a few. Lanterns can be used as center pieces or hang from the ceiling. They can be used as one or grouped together for different atmospheres. They do not have to be the same shapes and sizes when grouped together, even better if they are not. It gives them the space a character. 

 

In the summer the lanterns can be filled with a sand, shells, along with the candle.

 

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In the fall the lanterns can be filled with cranberries, pumpkins, fall leaves,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the winter the lanterns can be filled with pine cones, evergreen branches, Christmas ornaments

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Decorating for spring or an event

 

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Of course they can be used for regular light fixtures over your dining room table

 

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I own a handful of lanterns that I decorate for the holidays. Are you a fan of lanterns?

Fall inspired crafts

Okay, I know that you probably have finished your fall decorating but if you are like me maybe you haven’t even started yet. No matter what you can always add or change things to your fall decor. Here are few things I found while I was trying to find some inspiration for my house.

A cute printable via

 

Make a sign via

 

 

Pumpkin candle holders

 

 

decorated pumpkins via

 

Paper Pumpkin via 

 

 

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A glittered pumpkin topiary via

 

 

fun wreath via

 

 

colorful leaf garland via

 

 

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Leaves are always the perfect decoration for fall and all you need to do is frame them

 

 

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Quick and inexpensive table runner via

 

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My love for pumpkins

I love pumpkins. They are cute and yummy! Pumpkins are great for decorating and of course perfect for fall. I don’t think we can have fall without pumpkins and apples! Growing up the best ways to eat pumpkin was to bake it and sprinkle with sugar  or make this Bulgarian pastry called tikvenik. Yummy,  it is making me home sick!

 

Chocolate covered pumpkin Twinkies

 

mini pumpkin cheesecake brulee

 

maple pumpkin fudge

 

pumpkin pie white hot chocolate

 

Pumpkin Scones

 

Pumpkin Truffle

 

Pumpkin Risotto

 

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Truffles

 

Pumpkin Butter

 

Well I am officially hungry and ready to devour in a Costco pumpkin pie!

 

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