Here’s a list of seasonal arts, crafts, activities, ideas and more for the month of October.
OCTOBER 1
Homemade Cookies Day
Try this: ► Cookie Recipes
World Vegetarian Day
Try this: ► Inside Outside Drawings of Vegetables
Try this: ► Fruit and Vegetable Portraits
Try this: ► Fruit and Vegetable Prints
Henry Ford introduced the Model T on this day in 1908
Try this: ► Transportation Activities
OCTOBER 2
Name Your Car Day
National Poetry Day
Try this: ► Poetry Pebbles
Try this: ► Magnetic Poetry
Peanuts Comic Strip First Published in 1950
World Farm Animals Day
Try this: ► Farm Coloring Pages/Printables
Try this: ► Animal Masks
OCTOBER 3
Author James Herriot’s Birthday, 1916
Try this: ► Baby Animals Coloring Pages
Try this: ► Farm Coloring Pages/Printables
Look at the Leaves Day
Try this: ► Build a Tree Leaf by Leaf
Try this: ► Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Try this: ► Fall Leaf Watercolors
Try this: ► Leaf People
Try this: ► Fall Leaves T-Shirt
OCTOBER 4
Golf Day
Sputnik orbited the Earth on this day in 1957
Try this: ► Make a cosmic mobile
Try this: ► Sculpt a Planet
Frugal Fun Day
Try this: ► Make art using recycled items!
World Cardmaking Day
Try this: ► Make Note Cards
Try this: ► Make Crackle Cards
Try this: ► Make a card for mom
Try this: ► Make a card for dad
OCTOBER 5
World Teacher Day
Try this: ► So You Want to Be a Teacher
Ray Kroc’s Birthday (Founder of McDonalds)
Try this: ► Make a hamburger collage
OCTOBER 6
American Library Association Founded in 1876
Try this: ► Find art lessons inspired by books
Child Health Day
OCTOBER 7
The rose became the US National flower on this day in 1986
Try this: ► Make a flower out of coffee filters.
OCTOBER 9
Moldy Cheese Day
Lief Ericson discovered America on this day in the year 1000
Indigenous People’s Day (USA)
Try this: ► Make a Dreamcatcher
Try this: ► Inuit Soap Carving
Try this: ► Norval Morrisseau
Try this: ► Drawing Totems with Glue
Try this: ► Sand Painting
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
Try this: ► Thanksgiving Day Activities
OCTOBER 10
World Egg Day
Try this: ► Dinosaur Eggs
Try this: ► Egg Carton Caterpillar
Try this: ► Egg Cup Flowers
Try this: ► Find lots of egg crafts in our Easter section
OCTOBER 11
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Birthday, 1884
OCTOBER 12
Farmer’s Day
Try this: ► Sunflower Drawings
Try this: ► Farm Coloring Pages/Printables
OCTOBER 14
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s birthday, 1890
Grover’s (Sesame Street) Birthday
OCTOBER 15
Dessert Day
Try this: ► Yummy Recipes
Try this: ► Make a dessert out of clay!
Try this: ► Paint a dessert!
Grouch Day
Fossil Day
Try this: ► Make dinosaur eggs.
US Department of Transportation established on this day in 1966
Try this: ► Transportation Activities
OCTOBER 16
Dictionary Day
World Food Day
Try this: ► Make Mini Meals
OCTOBER 17
Black Poetry Day
Pasta Day
Try this: ► Spaghetti Skeleton
Try this: ► Twig and Pasta Name Plate
OCTOBER 18
Chocolate Cupcake Day
OCTOBER 19
Star Spangled Banner Day
Try this: ► Color the US Flag
Thomas Edison demonstrated the electric light on this day in 1879.
Try this: ► STEM Activities
OCTOBER 20
Monster Mash Day
Try this: ► Shoe Rubbing Monsters
Try this: ► Name Monsters
Try this: ► Monster in my Closet
Try this: ► Monster Painting
OCTOBER 21
Alfred Nobel’s Birthday, 1833
Reptile Day
Try this: ► Make a Snake using recycled materials
Counting Buttons Day
Try this: ► Make a Button Banner
Try this: ► Waste Not Picture Frame
OCTOBER 22
Nut Day
OCTOBER 23
Canned Food Day
Try this: ► Make a sculpture out of a recycled food can
Try this: ► Make telephones out of recycled food cans
Soccer Player Pele’s Birthday, 1940
OCTOBER 24
Bologna Day
United Nations Day
Try this: ► Visit the United Nations (external link)
OCTOBER 25
Denim Day
Try this: ► Make a book bag out of a pair of jeans
Pablo Picasso’s Birthday, 1881
International Artist Day
Try this: ► Art History and Art Appreciation Lessons
OCTOBER 26
The Erie Canal was opened on this day in 1825
Mother-in-Law’s Day
OCTOBER 27
President Teddy Roosevelt’s Birthday, 1858
OCTOBER 28
Statue of Liberty Day
Stuffy Animal Lovers Day
Try this: ► Do a contour drawing of a stuffy animal
OCTOBER 29
Stock Market Crash, 1929
National Cat Day
Try this: ► Make a paper plate cat
Try this: ► Cat coloring page
Try this: ► Handprint Cat
OCTOBER 30
Candy Corn Day
Try this: ► Faux stained glass candy corn art lesson
Author Emily Post’s Birthday, 1873
OCTOBER 31
Halloween
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses”, carving Jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland (where it originated), the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. Source: wikipedia▼
HALLOWEEN CRAFTS
Over 135 different Halloween ideas including costumes, treats, crafts and 100 things to do with a pumpkin! Also, find out how you can download Halloween coloring pages. [read more]
CELEBRATE ALL MONTH
OCTOBER is…
Adopt a Shelter Animal Month
AIDS Awareness Month
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Try this: ► An Apple for the Teacher
Try this: ► Make apple cinnamon dough
Bat Appreciation Month
Try this: ►Bottle Bats
Try this: ►Bat Mask
Book Month
Try this: ►Find art lessons inspired by books.
Cookie Month
Clock Month
Computer Learning Month
Try this: ► STEM Activities
Dessert Month
Try this: ► Make a dessert out of clay!
Try this: ► Paint a dessert!
Family History Month
Pizza Month
Try this: ► Shape Collage Pizzas
Try this: ► Make Piglet’s Pizzazzy Pizza
Popcorn Popping Month
Roller Skating Month
Polish American History Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Try this: ► Make a Stamp Jar
The 1st MONDAY of OCTOBER Is…
Child Health Day
The 2nd MONDAY of OCTOBER Is…
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day in Canada
Try this: ► Thanksgiving Day Crafts, Recipes and Lessons
The 3rd SUNDAY of OCTOBER…
Mother-In-Law’s Day
The 3rd WEEK of OCTOBER…
Fire Prevention Week
Try this: ► Check Smoke Detectors – Coloring Page
