Kids’ Almanac: Meet a real reindeer, build a LEGO Christmas City, bid Sinterklaas bon voyage
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” – Henry David Thoreau Volunteering for
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Kids’ Almanac: Peer through a telescope, play a board game, make a crown, a menorah, an Advent calendar or a kissing ball
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert
Kids’ Almanac: Raise your lantern for St. Maarten’s Day or Diwali, practice your penmanship, play a board game or study snakes
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” – Emily Dickinson Edible books in Poughkeepsie I find
Kids’ Almanac: Write a novel in a month, groom & ride a horse, build the Millennium Falcon out of LEGOs
“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.” – Clyde Watson NaNoWriMo
Kids’ Almanac: Learn Algonquin lore, conduct a costumed orchestra, trick-or-treat at a ballpark
“Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with ‘scary,’ ‘spooky,’ ‘haunted’ or ‘forbidden’ in the title.” – from Scooby-Doo
Kids’ Almanac: Meet a monitor lizard, make a sugar skull, trick-or-treat on campus or explore a haunted mansion
“In October sun, it’s all gold – sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be
Almanac Weekly’s compendium of Halloween-themed festivities in the Hudson Valley
Here’s a list of Halloween-related events, painstakingly compiled by Almanac Weekly’s Keira Eisenbeil, to help plan your macabre October adventures.
Kids’ Almanac: Dodge pyromaniac Redcoats, have a museum sleepover, pet a Dalmatian or practice parkour
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect
Kids’ Almanac: Be a lumberjack, chalk a sidewalk, check out Chinese acrobats
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
Kids’ Almanac: Fly a kite, touch a truck or build a bathouse
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Chainsaw handling for