With one day to the Big Event, here are some last minute suggestions for Halloween reads and snacks:

Books:

• Halloween Howls: Holiday Poetry (I Can Read Book 2) – I saw this wonderful book at our school’s Scholastic Book Fair. Lee Bennett Hopkins captures the spirit of everyone’s favorite holiday in this sweet and spooky collection of poems for beginning readers, ages kindergarten through grade 3.
• The Littlest Pumpkin – For ages 4 to 8, Halloween is the most important holiday for any pumpkin, and the Littlest Pumpkin dreams of being the center of attention. Throughout the day, children come and go, picking their pumpkins. But when Bartlett¹s Farm Stand closes, only the Littlest Pumpkin remains. But just then, a group of mice scurrying around the stand make the Littlest Pumpkin¹s dream come true in a most surprising way.
• Pumpkin Pumpkin – By Jeanne Titherington, this book explains how pumpkins are grown. Jamie plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and, after watching it grow all summer, carves a face in it for Halloween! But best of all, he saves some seeds that he will plant again next spring. For ages 4 to 8.
• A Very Brave Witch – A friendly young witch describes what she likes most about Halloween. She explains that although most of her kind are afraid of humans, she has done research and concluded that people are not that bad. She plans to visit them this Halloween night. A cute, not-scary book for preschoolers through second graders.

Halloween Snack Help:

• Food Network’s Halloween Guide
• Halloween and Fall Recipes and Snacks
• Family Fun’s Halloween Snacks
• CDKitchen’s Halloween Recipes

Here’s a great one from Family Fun’s website that’s almost healthyL

Mini Witches’ Brooms
These sweet and salty snacks are sure to be swept away in no time, so you’ll want to make lots.

Ingredients:

1. Roll of Fruit by the Foot
2. Thin pretzels

Directions:

1. For each one, cut a 2-inch length from a roll of Fruit by the Foot.
2. With the shorter ends on the side, fringe the bottom of the strip (leaving a 1/4-inch border uncut along the top) to create thin broom bristles.
3. Then moisten the upper edge of the fruit with a drop of water and tightly wrap it around one end of a thin pretzel-stick broom handle.

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