Pouring activities were a calm and focused time for everyone. We had pinto beans to pour with a little pitcher, dried lentils and barley to spoon with childsized teaspoons, roasted pumpkin seeds to ladel and some orange-tinted water to move from cup to cup with an eye dropper.
A 'mystery bag' of items to run floating and sinking experiments on was another favorite. We charted a total of items that floated in a bowl of water and items that sank by putting stickers on a bar graph chart. Clara especially loved this activity and returned to it without the charting after everyone left, happily testing and retesting each item for a very long time. We had some natural items like a pinecone, acorn, pumpkin seed and leaf, some small toys like a tiny doll, a plastic ball and small frog, and household items like string, a tongue depresser, a piece of sponge. 
Outdoor activities included Halloween balloons to kick, throw, or pass through a hula hoop, a 2X4 to walk on like a balance beam (worked best when an adult put a foot on one end to steady it), and jumping in and out of the hoop. 
The kids also enjoyed making (and particularly eating) soft pretzels. You can find a recipe that doesn't require boiling the dough here. They were tasty!
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