Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun!

Projects

Handprint Spider

Paint child's hand black

Press onto 5x7 piece of orange construction paper

Let dry - add googly eyes and spider webs!

Book Connection:

Spooky Bunny Tales - The Blue Tarantula

Max & Ruby Three Stories in One

 

Witches Broomsticks

Press a pretzel stick into the middle/bottom part of a Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

Book Connection:

It's Halloween Night

By: Jennifer O'Connell

 

Mosaic Candy Corn

Draw a candy corn shape on black construction paper with white chalk

Separate the candy corn into 3 sections

Cut white, orange and yellow paper into squares

Glue the colored squares onto the paper

 

Square Monsters!

Cut a green square  and 2 rectangles -for the legs from green construction paper

Cut two squares, a skinny rectangle and a zigzag for the bolts, hair and nose piece

Cut two rectangles for the feet

Glue the feet to the square

Glue the other pieces to the Monster!

Draw on two scars and two eyes

Book Connection:

Inside a House That is Haunted

By:  Alyssa Satin Capucilli

 

Coffee Filter Pumpkin

Paint a coffee filter with orange water color paint.

Let dry - Glue a green stem to the top!

Handprint Jack-O-Lanterns

Trace hand on orange construction paper

Cut it out and draw a face on the hand print

Glue on a green stem

Candy Corn Footprint

Paint the bottom of one foot white, orange and yellow.

Press the foot onto a piece of construction paper

 

Learning Activities

Candy Corn Number Match

Skills: number recognition, counting, number words,

Cut out pieces to candy corn - white, orange and yellow

Write the numeral on the white piece, corresponding dot/dots on the orange piece and the number word on the yellow piece

Directions: 

 Match the three pieces of the candy corn and glue them on the black construction paper

 

Halloween Shape Sort

Skills:  Shapes, gluing, name writing

Create a document with 3 circles and 3 triangles

On the side of the document copy 3  jack-o-lanterns and 3 candy corn

Directions: 

Cut out the jack-o-lanterns and candy corn

Glue the pieces into the correct shape

Halloween Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting, reading, name writing, coloring

Here is the link for this cute Halloween Counting Book

 

At the Pumpkin Patch Beginning Sounds Sort

Skills:  beginning sounds. cutting, pasting, letter recognition

 

Here is the link to this great beginning sounds activity.