🎃 Get ready for a Halloween Boonanza! 🕷️ Bring the family together for a fun-filled Play & Learn packed with hands-on activities, a creepy-but-delicious snack, a hilarious story, and a fun PBS KIDS game!
In this Halloween adventure, little learners can:
🕷️ Make a Spider & Spider Web – Create a fun Halloween craft using simple supplies.
👻 Cook Monster Fingers – Whip up a silly, spooky snack that’s almost too funny to eat!
🥕 Read Creepy Carrots! – Enjoy the hilarious story of Jasper Rabbit and his not-so-scary creepy carrots.
🎮 Play Arthur's Tricks and Treats – Keep the Halloween fun going with a PBS KIDS game!
Designed for young children and their families, this LPB Education Play & Learn combines play, creativity, literacy, and learning into one fun Halloween experience. ✨ Gather your little learners, grab your supplies, and join the Halloween Boonanza! Find more LPB Education family activities, learning resources, and Play & Learns at lpb.org/education.
Don't forget to check out all the great Halloween activities, DIY costumes, pumpkin carving templates, and much more on the PBS KIDS Parents Halloween Hub!
7 Fun Halloween Activities to do at Home
Discover 7 spook-tacular Halloween activities the whole family will love. Let the hauntingly good times begin!
Room for Everyone: 10 Picture Books that Encourage Kindness
As parents, we can cultivate kindness in our kids by reading books to them! Here are 10 books that explore empathy, celebrate diversity and encourage kindness that you and your children can read together.
PBS LearningMedia - Learning at Home
Changing Seasons Collection-FALL: Join PBS KIDS and explore Fall! Learn about leaves, why animals squirrel away food, all about pumpkins and apples, and animals who hibernate through media clips, extension activities, articles, and crafts. As you engage in these lessons, you can feel confident that you are helping children grow up great!
Don't forget to sign up for a FREE account for PBS LearningMedia! You can easily search for videos, lessons, interactives, and more by grade level and subject area.
October Celebrations
National Book Month -- Fill your home with letters, sounds, and word play! These literacy activities are your ticket to exploring the fun and exciting world of learning to read. #NationalBookMonth
Hispanic Heritage Month continues -- When kids learn about different points-of-view and backgrounds, they learn the importance of kindness and empathy, and to appreciate the similarities and differences in us all!
October 2 is World Smile Day -- Research shows that when we use emojis at home, in the classroom, and online, it can help us express emotions and better understand what we've learned! 😄😃🙃🤩😫 #WorldSmileDay
October 5 is World Habitat Day -- What types of animal habitats exist around your home? Use this activity to guide your kids in exploring habitats around your neighborhood and the animals that live in them!
October 5 is World Teachers Day -- Who is your favorite PBS KIDS teacher? Maybe it's @ArthurPBS's Mr. Ratburn, @danieltigertv's Teacher Harriet, or Mr. Sparks from @HeroElementary! #WorldTeachersDay
October 10 is World Mental Health Day -- It's natural to feel anxious thoughts from time to time! Use these simple strategies to help your family manage through these difficult emotions. #WorldMentalHealthDay
October 12 is Indigenous Peoples' Day -- Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Here are eight books written by Indigenous authors to add to your bookshelf to honor and celebrate Native heritage, not just this month, but all year long!
October 29 is National Cat Day -- Nature Cat can see all kinds of different animal and plant life in the water with his DIY pond viewer! 🔎 Here's how to make your own to bring to your next pond, stream, or lake exploration.
PBS KIDS Game: Reboot Rescue
Reboot Rescue is an interactive, immersive game for early elementary grades featuring characters from Cyberchase. Players join Digit the Cybird as he tries to help reboot Motherboard by fixing her circuits while learning about place value and subtraction in the process.
October PBS KIDS Family Night - Saturday @ 7 PM on LPB KIDS!
October 3-- Tonight on @PBSKIDS Family Night, it's Nature Cat and Lyla in the Loop Halloween episodes!
October 10-- Movie night with Molly of Denali: Molly and the Great One! Molly learns about Grandpa Nat's dream to climb to the top of Denali in honor of the first person to do so, real-life Alaska Native, Walter Harper. Molly tries to get Grandpa and her father to climb North America's highest mountain!
October 17 -- Don't miss these episodes of Arthur and Lyla in the Loop on PBS KIDS!
October 24 starting at 5 PM-- It's Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures followed by a Super Why's Comic Book Adventures marathon!
Family Night Snack Box