How to Celebrate October

If you're someone who loves autumn as much as I do you may want to celebrate the month of October. October holidays include: Columbus Day, National Boss Day, National Children's Day, Thanksgiving Day in Canada, Sweetest Day, and everyone's favorite dress up in costume day, Halloween. There's much to celebrate about October. Celebrating this beautiful month of harvest and Halloween will provide years of great memories.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Love of October and the autumn season
• Time

1. 
   View of October through my window

   Celebrate October by eating the seasonal foods of October. These include apples, pears, figs, squashes, nuts and pumpkins. Don't forget to include a taste of our favorite October treats: caramel apples, apple cider donuts, pumpkin, apple and squash pies, and candy corn.

2. 
   Vintage Halloween postcard

   Decorate your home with colored autumn leaves and rich autumn colors. Deep greens, burnt oranges, and various shades of red bring October into your living space.
   
   Decorate your house with vintage Halloween including witches, jack o' lanterns, spider webs, black cats, skeletons and other Halloween collectibles. If you own a Halloween village bring the first piece out on October 1st and add pieces every night until your Halloween village is complete on Halloween night.

3. 
   Mums are a seasonal October flower

   Plant mums or buy seasonal October flowers. Large baskets of mums are available in supermarkets, farmers markets and farm stands towards the middle of September.

4. 

   Drink a warm mug of apple cider after a day of viewing local foliage.

5. 
   Picking Pumpkins

   Spend a day picking apples or spend a day at your local pumpkin patch. Many times hayrides are available at these seasonal farms.

6. 
   Terracotta Pumpkin

   Make your own Halloween costume by shopping early at a local thrift store. Attend or host your own Halloween party giving small prizes for the best costumes.

7. 
   Autumn Gourds

   Spend an afternoon taking photographs of October's splendor; mat and frame several of your photos to remind you of October's beauty.

8. 
   The first Autumn leaf

   Spend a chilly October afternoon making caramel apples for your friends, neighbors and/or family. Decorate them with chopped nuts, small candies, toasted coconut and drizzled white and dark chocolate.

9. Make a scarecrow for the front porch or the back garden. Decorate your porch or yard with jack o' lanterns, different varieties of pumpkins, autumn leaves and tree branches. Look at Halloween decorating magazines and books for ideas.

Tips & Warnings

• Time goes by fast, celebrate October everyday of the month and create wonderful October traditions and memories.

Resources

• Collecting Halloween
• Pumpkin Muffins
• Halloween Postcard Book
• BOO Mansion
• Vintage Halloween
• Pumpkin Obsession
• The Great Pumpkin Family Tradition

[writetolife]

on 10/30/2009 Sounds wonderful. Thank you.

[askapeach]

on 10/25/2009 Great ideas for how to celebrate october and fall, one of my favorite times of the year!

[ghostwoman]

on 9/28/2009 Excellent article on celebrating October.
5*s -- well written.
I recommend you!

[jaredsgirl]

on 9/27/2009 Fall is my favorite season. Thanks for the tips on how to celebrate October! 5* and a recommend.

[skyedanzer]

on 9/19/2009 What fun ways for celebrating!