I kept up the apple orchard and pumpkin patch from learning about fall last week. We had just added the pumpkins, and on Thursday, I added more Halloween things like ghosts and bats in the sky, and black cats and jack-o-lanterns below.
Blocks
Day 1, I had out almost all of our dress ups. This was so much fun! We had pirates, knights, princesses, clowns, dragon, flamingo, polar bear, Elmo, witches, a pumpkin, and more! The witch was the favorite, because it glowed in the dark. They each had to take a turn to wear it, and I was leading groups in and out of the storage room most of the day.
Day 2, I made a spider web out of masking tape and filled it with spiders and insects. They loved playing with it, plus I showed them how to walk and balance on the web, so it was a great large motor game.
Art
Day 1, Halloween stamps
Day 2, Frozen pumpkin-shaped paint. Frozen paint is so fun because it colors like chalk at first, then more like paint as it melts. It's a fun sensory and artistic activity.
Small Manips
Day 1, spider web lacing. They could make webs on the plates, plus sew spider rings onto it too.
Day 2, pumpkin seed counting in pumpkin trays
Magnet Board
Magnetic Build a Witch from the dollar store.
Writing Table
Halloween stickers. They loved adding these onto pictures they made at the art table too.
Sensory Table
We had a pumpkin cut in half, filled with creepy Halloween creatures.
Snack
Day 1, we had a healthy Halloween with banana ghosts, witch broomsticks, and orange pumpkins.
Day 2, they each made their own mummy dogs with hot dogs and crescent rolls.
Large Group
Day 1, we read and acted out the book, There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat.
We also learned the songs 5 Little Pumpkins and Spider on the Floor.
Day 2, was our Halloween party. We were in small groups and rotated through several fun activities like Pin the Tail on the Cat, Halloween Memory, Pumpkin counting, Don't Eat Frank, and making potions.
Small Group
My group read Spiders Spiders Everywhere and made spider counting books. You may notice some of their counting is off, but we worked on it and counted together and crossed out mistakes. So don't worry if work comes home with mistakes! We're always learning and mistakes are proof of that.
Miss Kim's group read about pumpkins and made the pumpkin life cycle.
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