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With Halloween potentially looking very different this year for my kids, I’ve been trying to think of different things we can do to make the day still seem as fun! Trick or treating looks like it is going to be a no go so we’ve been thinking about having a ‘Halloween Hunt’ around the house, much like an Easter Egg hunt but with sweets instead. I’ve also been considering putting up some Halloween decor and also making some Halloween treats. In the run up to the day, we will be doing lots of fun activities too.
With that in mind, we were sent this Halloween Activity Book {affiliate link} review, along with a Halloween t-shirt!
About The Book
This educational activity book celebrates everything kids love about Halloween and helps them to learn Maths and English at the same time.
This book includes:
Word puzzles – word searches, crossword, fill in the letters, word scrambles | Number puzzles – sequences, simple algebra, ciphers, counting
Shapes activities – sizes, reflections, sudoku | Writing prompts with pictures | Colouring | Dot to dot, Mazes, Spot the difference pictures
Fun additional extras e.g. recipes for slime, Halloween jokes and a trivia quiz or two!
It is printed single sided to prevent bleed through and has large 8.5 x 11 pages.
What did we think?
Well you may have seen from recent posts that we have been in self isolation for almost two weeks – it is finally up this weekend – and so that means a lot of sitting around not doing much. An activity book was exactly what Jack needed to take his mind off being stuck at home and away from his friends just after going back to school and this was the perfect tonic.
There are plenty of fun puzzles for kids to do and they aren’t too difficult so good for kids to do but also not too easy so the kids get bored easily. There are also colouring pages, quizzes and writing prompts which Jack loves – you may have seen how much he loves writing in our review of 101 Story Starters For Kids.
The cover is super fun and colourful and drew Jack and Olivia straight away – I’m sure Olivia would love a similar activity book suited to her age! The illustrations are also super cute!
Jack has really been enjoying doing the different puzzles and pages and still has plenty left to do as Halloween approaches! For £5.99, this is a fantastic activity book for 6-8 year olds and perfect for helping Halloween this year still be just as fun as it usually is.
He also really loves his shirt – you can buy your own here {affiliate link}.
Competition
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The book looks really fun! I bought loads during the initial lockdown but so many are actually quite complicated, definitely not something you can just let them get on with for 10 minutes.
I don’t know what we’ll do for Halloween yet, two of our neighbouring authorities are in local lockdown so I guess it depends how things are.
this would be an amazing book for Lee
Love this! Halloween is the best!
Our boys love Halloween
We have a spooky tea party normally with games and treats, I’d love to have some written games and quizzes too
I’m shielding due to my health condition so I guess I won’t be celebrating apart from a zoom call with my grandchildren.
Just at home with the kids!
It is our wedding anniversary, we usually go to Bran Castle in Transylvania, but unfortunately not this year. So we are going on the London eye in fancy dress and a river cruise.
I was literally just thinking today about how we’ll tackle Halloween too. Decorating the house and having fun at home is definitely the way to go.
I was literally just thinking today about how we’ll tackle Halloween too. Decorating the house and having fun at home is definitely the way to go this year
What a great looking Halloween book for kids to get stuck into – nothing like having something fun while learning a little.
with my niece, who is 3. Will make some spooky cakes to hopefully detract from the lack of trick and treating this year!!!
This Halloween activity book looks like fun with a little bit of learning too. I can see that this will be popular amongst those who love book activities, crosswords and spooky fun. It might even get them away from the gadgets. 🙂
I probably won’t celebrate it this year, can’t see there being many trick or treaters.We normally do a big thing at old people’s home, but we won’t be able to now.
Not sure that we will be celebrating this year, may carve a pumpkin
I do my nieces special Halloween trick o treat bags each year and this would be perfect!
I think it will be our own little party just us at home with lots of games and a Halloween themed treasure hunt!
Instead of trick or treating this year, we’re going to snuggle up and watch a spooky (child appropriate!!) film with ‘spooky’ themed food.
We love Halloween! Love the fact this is educational!
We always have a little party at home before going trick or treating. This year it’ll just be the party, spooky tea and we’ll have games instead.
We like Halloween in our house though this year it might be a bit muted, things like this will cheers us up, my youngest two would love this activity book, great review.
A party at home!
A dresss up / making pumpkins sess with little ones
Not quite sure, maybe at home as trick or treat maybe cancelled
This is such a cute themed book to keep up the excitement of Halloween. Although we really don’t celebrate it in the same way as you see over in America x
No celebrations this year , hopefully next
we have a home party wit all our friennnds!
As it’s looking like we’re facing a lockdown again, I’m going to decorate my house like crazy and do some baking and make it really special for my 3 children.
Our kids love spending time with us doing activity books, Halloween is our favourite time to play fun activities.
We don’t celebrate Halloween so it didn’t even occur to me it would be very different this year for lots of families. Good that you’ll be able to enjoy celebrating in other ways. Mich x
We will celebrate Halloween just with our children. They won’t be happy to not go to any parties or trick or treating but it’s just not right this year. We will be doing some crafts and baking and decorating some Halloween treats instead.
We love all things Halloween themed and this book looks perfect for my two children especially since they love puzzles, word searches and slime. Something to keep them busy as we will be skipping trick or treating this year.
I always enjoyed books like this when I was younger. They’re great for a gift for something like Halloween and can be used anytime, they’re particularly great for travel days and when there’s inclement weather.
I do absolutely love the idea of a halloween activity book, I am not big on halloween itself but this I can do.
My friend and me are in a support bundle and we both have daughters, so we were thinking of having a little halloween party. They are going to be so disappointed when we tell them that they may not be able to go trick or treating, so hopefully this will help cheer them up.
Not sure how Halloween will be this year. As I would expect that the Community Celebrations which were began a few years ago ( planned collectively with local council and some Third Sector Organisations, I believe) will not cancelled I expect due to Coronavirus/covid 19 Pandemic.
Perhaps an Afternoon Tea, and keeping with the Coronavirus/ covid 19 Pandemic Regulations, ( Rule of Six, Socially Distancing, etc, even).
Maybe some Halloween Arts and Crafts activities. We will see, “Time will tell “.
We usually have a party, but I’m not so sure what we’ll do this year x
This looks great, love puzzle books to keep my son away from screens all the time. Perfect for doing together to for some Halloween fun
Staying at home, but eating chocolate and sweets 😀
My kids are so worried about not being able to do Halloween this year. This looks like a great idea
It’s also my grandsons first birthday so all the family will get together, play some Halloween games, eat and watch some fireworks.
We usually decorate the house & garden to host a party and Trick and Treaters but this year will be different just with family. We usually dress up & do face paint and bake lots of Halloween themed goodies. Maybe if weather is fine we’ll be outside with the firepit and BBQ . Will keep the family busy with lots of Arts & crafts too!
I daren’t let the children go trick or treating this year so instead we will have a Halloween version of an easter egg hunt. Sweets hidden around the house for them to sniff out (if the dog doesn’t get to them first!)
Ill dress up my kids and have a spooktacular family party at home for them .
I think decorating the house and dressing up on Halloween – pumpkin carving and all!
We usually have a Halloween party, decorate the house, dress up and invite loads of family. This year we’ll be doing the same minus the loads of family!
WHO KNOWS –I M REALLY NOT SURE WITH EVERYTHING THATS GOING ON
We will decorate the house and have a little family Halloween party
We are on a local lockdown so if that still in place we will be having a small party with us 3 playing games and watching lots of scary films
We will be having a little socially distanced garden party with a couple of school friends.
We’ll be dressing up the house and ourselves and if still allowed, will be inviting over our best friends and goddaughter and then playing games and enjoying some good food.
we love Halloween
We decorate the house and have sweets in for trick or treaters – always had a party when my daughter lived at home x
We will have a mini pumpkin carving competition for our street, dress up, and sing spooky songs and play games inside our house, probably do a zoom with friends to see each others costumes
We will be having some party food and games indoors with our two children instead of trick or treating this year.
We always have some sort of party each Halloween.
We normally carve pumpkins and my two boys dress up. Will be trying some different crafty things this year too.
just dressing up at home and some sweets
This looks like a great book for isolation! We are not sure what to do for Halloween this year, I think we may go to our local pumpkin patch and choose a couple of pumpkins to take home and carve.
We put the Halloween tree up and watch a scary movie throughout the month of October
Horror movie night
We’re staying in this year with some sweeties and family friendly spooky movies.
With a virtual party x
W e will be staying at home and enjoying some great food and a scary film