It’s Halloween week! Honestly, growing up and into my adult years Halloween has never been my favorite. I’m pretty sure I stopped dressing up in the 4th grade and I never saw much fun of Halloween even as I got older. I think 9 year old Jayni was the last to put on a Halloween costume. I’d much rather be passing out the candy with my fuzzy socks, fire place and my festive pumpkin sweater that I break out once a year.

Now that I’m a mom I have a little different view of Halloween. While I’m still not into it myself it’s so fun to do Halloween/Fall activities with my daughter. We lean more towards fall things than spooky Halloween and try to just create a cozy atmosphere with fall baking, coloring and some special festive shows!

My daughter just turned 4 and is a busy bee. She loves to have activities otherwise things are kind of all over the place. With that having a few simple activities in place are so helpful for our day!

Here is a few things on our last week of October:

1. Play with our Young Wild and Friedman Halloween themed playdough-These are favorite investment. My sweet mom actually buys these for Jae and we couldn’t love them more.

2. Neighborhood scavenger hunt- honestly this is just something we have made up to keep ourselves busy. My daughter will either ride her bike, walk or want me to push her in a stroller and we search for certain Halloween or fall decorations.

3.Trader Joe’s Haunted House Chocolate Cookie Kit – think a gingerbread house but Halloween. We will see how this goes and make it fun!

4. Make trick or treat goodie bags- with COVID I read a safe way to hand out candy was to make goodie bags a few days before and put them outside for kids to take. It will be fun to make with JJ, she loves to help!

5. Cookies!- these are a Halloween twist on a peanut butter kiss cookie and we love them! Here is the recipe!

Peanut Butter Kiss fall cookies:

Recipe from: Land O’ Lakes

Recipe:

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup softened butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 3/4 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 cup sugar

Chocolate kisses candy

Halloween sprinkles (I got mine at Marshall’s)

Steps:

Combines sugars, butter and peanut butter until mixed together.

Add egg, vanilla and salt.

Add flour and baking soda and mix until all combined

Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Scoop dough into tablespoons and roll in 1/4 cup of sugar/Halloween sprinkle mixture.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Place Kiss candy on top right out of the oven.

Also, if you have a little one here are a few Halloween shows we will be watching this week:

Doc Mcstuffins Halloween, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween episode, Peppa Pig Trick or Treat and Coco Melon Halloween!

Stick around later this week for a few adult treats for Halloween!