Originally published in 2021, updated yearly.
But first!
Read Our Monthly Themes for Play for our full list of themes
and to learn five reasons why we love monthly themes.
October’s theme is Halloween!
Our monthly books:
We have a little bookshelf in our den, where we do a monthly book rotation.
See a quick reel here!
I link a similar bookshelf here.
Our monthly sensory activities:
my favorite play dough tray - create a colorful spider, or monster, or anything!
Here’s how we store these monthly items the rest of the year.
Our other monthly activities:
supply lists for Halloween-themed art activities
a few activity ideas:
Oobleck + plastic spiders
Black qtip name painting
Cotton ball ghost
Halloween bracelets
our favorite activity subscription with ready-to-go activities
Our monthly kitchen toys:
Here’s a quick reel on the 13 things we keep in our play kitchen.
Linked everything we used in our play kitchen here.
Each month we rotate 2-3 “new” food or cooking toys - to reduce clutter, to increase novelty, to encourage play. This rotation works really well for us!
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We keep our toys the same, but we rotate monthly activities + monthly books.
See a quick tour of our playroom in this reel.
We always have out these animal toys, these building toys, these vehicle toys, and these play kitchen toys.
Here’s my two rules for tidy toy storage.
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