Kids Halloween Bookshelf

It’s no secret that we love Halloween over here. In fact, you don’t have to scroll very far to see the boys’ Halloween playroom from TWO YEARS AGO! 🤦‍♀️ which is practically the last blog I posted. You can check it out here if you are interested in a little flashback!

The kids’ bookshelf in the playroom at our old house was one of their favorite parts of the room. I didn’t know this until recently when Boden said something about it to me.

In their new playroom, they didn’t have any bookshelves hanging on the wall like they did before. Instead, I had just been using a crate/basket to hold their holiday books for each season. One day, Boden came to me and said “mom, remember our bookshelves at our old house that we would decorate? I miss those.” Say no more! We went to IKEA a few days later and picked up some shelves. The first holiday we got to decorate for was Halloween!

I love all of the little things we collect/create over the years to make this space extra festive. Books, buckets, stuffies, garlands, haunted house…so fun! But I will say, I’m looking forward to decorating this space for Thanksgiving.

I don’t think I’ve ever shared them before, so here are some photos of some “holiday book nooks” we had at our old house! You can also find a list of all the Halloween books we have here.

My Favorite Room

Wow! I can't believe it has been over a year and a half since I’ve written a post. I love coming back to this happy little place I call my blog.

A lot has happened over the past year. From new jobs to new homes…life is a crazy ride! We are finally feeling a sense of normalcy after a hectic year and I am so excited to share a tiny slice of what we’ve been up to.

The boys are pretty much adults now! (kidding…but they are 4!) and they are just as sweet and crazy and active as ever.

We sold our beloved duplex in April of last year and bought a new house. It was very hard to say goodbye to that place. The first house we ever bought, the house we brought the kids home to, our amazing backyard and all of the memories that were made there. It was a very good home to us. Even though it was sad, the timing felt right to move on to the next chapter in our lives. We love our new home!

We bought a house on the other side of town in September and we finally moved in mid-november. It’s an older home and everything needed painted (thanks, dad!). There is still work we would like to do and that needs to be done but for right now, we are feeling really good to be in this place.

Which brings me to my favorite room in the house…the front living room. This house is over double the size of our last one, I couldn’t imagine having more than one living space!

I love coming into this room to read, listen to music or play with the kids. It faces south and gets the most amazing sunlight…my lemon tree really thrives in this room. We didn’t get much natural light in the duplex so having these big windows in the front has been welcoming.

We spend a lot of time in this room. It makes me happy! I hope to share more of our home with you soon.

xoxo

Halloween Playroom

We switched our guest room to the the boys’ playroom almost a year ago, but this is the first time I have decorated it for a holiday. Halloween is so fun to decorate for! The bats, the glitter, the spooks & the books! I love it all. The boys do, too! I love how much they love Halloween.

We’ve added some new books to our Halloween collection this year. I will share a list of all of our books at the end of this post, but some of our new favorites are “Pick a Pumpkin” & “B is for Boo.” Both of these books have gorgeous illustrations. In “B is for Boo” all of the pictures have a vintage feel/look to them, which I think makes it extra fun to look at!

I like to do crafts/art projects as much as I can with the kids. They painted some “spooky” pictures, complete with glitter and Halloween stickers that we hung on the walls. I also picked up some plain wooden decor pieces to paint. Wyatt chose a jack-o-lantern & Boden picked the skull.

We, of course, had to hang up some paper bats! These are the same bats we used last year. With the bats, the boys’ artwork & some festive garlands thrown about, the room looks pretty spooktacular & ready for Halloween :) we really enjoy spending our time in here!

Do you like to decorate for Halloween? Let me know in the comments!

xoxo

Our Halloween Books: Shake dem Halloween Bones // The Haunted Mansion // Frankenstein // The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat // Goodnight Goon // Pick a Pumpkin // B is for Boo // Little Blue Truck’s Halloween // Spooky Pookie // Room on the Broom // Trick or Treat Parakeet // Five Silly Ghosts // There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat // Dr. Suess’s Spooky Things // Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Haunted Clubhouse // Where is Baby’s Pumpkin? // How to Catch a Witch // Halloween: A Halloween Book of Counting