How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds: A Delicious Halloween Snack When you carve your pumpkin for Halloween, don’t throw away the seeds! Pumpkin seeds make a fantastic sweet or savory snack for your family, depending on the seasonings you choose. Follow these simple steps to roast pumpkin seeds to perfection: Clean Read more…
Looking for a fun and creative way to get into the Halloween spirit? Try this combination drawing project and game: Halloween Tic Tac Toe! Draw the Board: Start by drawing a Tic Tac Toe board on a piece of paper. Decorate: Add Halloween-themed decorations around the edges, such as pumpkins, Read more…
Get creative and try some of these unusual outdoor games today for National Outdoor Sports Day: Play shaving cream Twister by adding shaving cream mixed with food coloring to the dots. Play Sardines – one person hides and everyone else tries to find them. When each person does find the Read more…
October is National Eat Better, Eat Together Month. This month, families are encouraged to gather at the same table to enjoy mealtimes. When people eat meals together (as opposed to grabbing snacks at different times or individual meals ‘on the go’), they tend to eat healthier and make better food Read more…
Turning a sucker into a ghostly treat is a classic Halloween craft project. All you need is a sucker with a round top, such as a Tootsie Pop or Dum-Dum, a white coffee filter or tissue paper and a small piece of string or yarn. Place the white filter or Read more…
During this season of scary stories and tales of monsters, play this fun variation on a classic outdoor game- zombie tag. Choose one person to be the ‘zombie’ (or ‘it’) and everyone else (the ‘humans’) try to run away from the zombie. As with typical zombies, the zombie cannot run Read more…
Turn a plain white paper plate into an apple today by coloring it red and attaching a brown paper stem and a green leaf. Cut out small black oblong shapes for the seeds. For a variation that’s great for toddlers, tear up pictures of red paper into small pieces and Read more…
Fall is also a great time to perform a Safety Inspection on your home. Test your fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and carbon monoxide detectors and replace the batteries. Make sure young children have their first and last names, address, and an adult’s phone number memorized in case of emergency and Read more…
Get ready to pull out some pirate lingo today – it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. According to the website Grammarly, some popular pirate words to use today include “ahoy” when you want to greet someone or call their attention to something or “shiver me timbers” when something exciting happens. Read more…
September is Better Breakfast Month. Taking time to eat breakfast can have helpful health benefits, as many nutritionists believe that starting your day by eating a regular morning meal can help control weight by setting a pattern of eating smaller, healthy meals throughout the day. Eating first thing in the Read more…