This year I decided not to decorate for Halloween specifically and instead went with something that can be out from September through November. Originally, I wanted this to be geared more towards my 2-year-old, and decided cute-covered ‘Halloween’ books would be great. But then my friend happened to gift me a letter board— welcome slippery slope...
Since these are all-popular, I immediately searched Pinterest for fall/pumpkin letter board inspiration and wasn’t seeing anything I loved, so I decided to turn the letters into the shape of a pumpkin. Once I had the idea, I searched for it too and nothing came up, imagination to the rescue!
All I did was use rounded letters to make the outline of the pumpkin and flat-bottomed ones for the bottom— then filled in the inside. Absolutely no rhyme or reason. I laid them all on loosely and after I was happy with the look I pressed them in.
I also decided to only decorate ONE table in the house because right now, simplicity is sanity!
Now for my original idea, I searched IG bloggers Halloween book suggestions, but quickly noticed that they all go off aesthetic, not story quality, and had to find books my son would actually like— not just that look pretty on a shelf. And they did look really pretty.
But we actually plan to read the books, so I ordered some new ones to add to the two we already had. Here are some of his favorites this year. We’re still waiting on a few more to arrive.
A few of these can stay out past Halloween and I can add in some Thanksgiving books before everything switches to CHRISTMAS! The books are in a spice rack from Ikea so they can sit on top of the toy cubby.
Now to wait for it to feel like fall— and actually be fall!
Most of our books are from Amazon and they can be found at the links below:
Skeleton Hiccups
B is for Boo
The Ugly Pumpkin
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
Moonlight the Halloween Cat
The Best Halloween of All
You're my Little Pumpkin Pie
Since these are all-popular, I immediately searched Pinterest for fall/pumpkin letter board inspiration and wasn’t seeing anything I loved, so I decided to turn the letters into the shape of a pumpkin. Once I had the idea, I searched for it too and nothing came up, imagination to the rescue!
I love how it turned out and I LOVE that I feel like it’s original!
All I did was use rounded letters to make the outline of the pumpkin and flat-bottomed ones for the bottom— then filled in the inside. Absolutely no rhyme or reason. I laid them all on loosely and after I was happy with the look I pressed them in.
It was missing something so I added ‘pumpkin spice everything.’
I was trying to think up something clever with fall, but the best I came up with was ‘FALL-vrite time of year.’ So, pumpkin spice everything— for now.
I also decided to only decorate ONE table in the house because right now, simplicity is sanity!
Now for my original idea, I searched IG bloggers Halloween book suggestions, but quickly noticed that they all go off aesthetic, not story quality, and had to find books my son would actually like— not just that look pretty on a shelf. And they did look really pretty.
But we actually plan to read the books, so I ordered some new ones to add to the two we already had. Here are some of his favorites this year. We’re still waiting on a few more to arrive.
Online book buying tip: Google the book and watch a video of it being read, you’ll know if you like it or want to pass on buying it!
Now to wait for it to feel like fall— and actually be fall!
Most of our books are from Amazon and they can be found at the links below:
Skeleton Hiccups
B is for Boo
The Ugly Pumpkin
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
Moonlight the Halloween Cat
The Best Halloween of All
You're my Little Pumpkin Pie
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