It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff, with pictures by Felicia Bond, stars the mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Mouse paints faces on pumpkins, and each face shows a different feeling. It's a sweet, simple way to talk about emotions.

Draw a giant number 8, then fill it up with eight things! Your little one counts out pom-poms, blocks or mini pumpkins and sets them right inside the big number. It's a simple way to connect the number they see with how many it means.

We're ending pumpkin week with a cheesy, warm quesadilla that looks like a jack-o'-lantern. Your little one helps sprinkle the cheese and picks the face, then you cut it into a pumpkin shape. It's a fun lunch or snack that's ready in minutes.

Pumpkins are a kind of squash. For a very long time, many Native American peoples, including the Haudenosaunee, have planted squash together with corn and beans. They call these plants the Three Sisters, because they grow best together and help each other.

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht, with pictures by Jarvis, follows a family on a trip to the pumpkin patch. They pick the perfect pumpkin, take it home and scoop it out. The rhymes are bouncy and the pictures are full of fall color.

Today your little one turns mini pumpkins into art with lines, dots and patterns. Washable paint and dot markers make it easy for small hands, and no two pumpkins come out the same.

A pumpkin has a hard outside, but what's inside? Under the skin, called the rind, is the thick orange part we eat, called the flesh. In the middle is the stringy pulp and lots and lots of seeds.

Peel a clementine, add a little green stem on top and you have a pumpkin you can eat! It takes one minute to make, and your little one can do most of the peeling.

Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino brings the classic fall rhyme to life with bold, happy pictures. Five pumpkins sit on a gate, and one by one they say something new before they all roll out of sight. It's short, rhythmic and perfect for counting.

It's Letter H day, so snack time is all about the /h/ sound, like honeydew. Your little one builds a big H on the plate and then eats it. Hummus, honeydew and ham: hooray for H!

H is our eighth letter! It makes an /h/ sound at the start of words like horse, house, hat and honeydew. To make it, open your mouth and breathe out, like you're fogging up a window.

Write letters all over a whiteboard, call one out and watch your little one wipe it away! Wipe Out is a fast, silly letter game that uses this week's letter H plus the letters we've learned so far, A through G.

Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie by Jill Esbaum is a bright photo book that follows a pumpkin from a tiny seed all the way to the dinner table. Real photos and a few simple words on each page make it a great first science book for pumpkin week.

Welcome to pumpkin week! We're starting in the kitchen with soft, little pumpkin muffins your child can help stir, scoop and count. They're lightly sweet, just the right size for small hands and great to make ahead for the week.

Uh oh, the pumpkin is rolling away! Your little one builds a ramp, lets a small pumpkin roll down and then builds a stopper at the bottom to catch it. Can they stop the runaway pumpkin?

We've counted up to 7. Today we add one more and get 8. Eight is five fingers on one hand plus three on the other. A spider has 8 legs, and you can draw an 8 like a snowman: one circle on top of another!

Every pumpkin activity we use in one place: four snacks, four hands-on projects, four books, two talks and two free printables. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

Everything we use for Letter H in one place: a quick talk, an H snack, a letter game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

Everything we use for Number 8 in one place: a quick talk, a counting snack, a counting game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.