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.

 

 

 

 

 

Fall Fun!

Fall Fun

Projects 

Stamped Cork Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown paper

Prepare red, yellow and orange paint and 3 wine corks

Directions: 

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of white paper.

Press the corks into the paint and press onto the paper to make leaves!

Ripped Paper Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown construction paper

Type and print:  In the Fall, the leaves fall off the tree!

Directions:

Rip small pieces of red orange and yellow construction paper

Glue the tree trunk to a 5x7 piece of blue construction paper

Glue the "leaves" to the tree

Glue the poem to the bottom of the tree

 

Fall Leaf Man

Cut out a leaf shape

Cut out strips of black paper for the arms and legs- accordion fold the strips of paper

Type and print:  If I were a leaf, I would . . .

Directions: 

Glue googly eyes to the leaf

Draw a mouth and nose on the leaf man

Finish the sentence

Staple the arms and legs on the leaf man

Staple the finished sentence to the leaf man

 

 

Learning Activities 

Pumpkin Seed Counting Story

Skills:  MathCounting, one-to-one matching, number recognition

Here is the link to this printable book

We used a light pink stamp pad to make the pumpkin seeds on each page

 Leaf Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting,  number recognition, name writing

Trace and cut out out a leaf shape to make this book

Directions:

Write the numbers 1-5 on the top of the leaves

Stick the appropriate number of  fall sticker/s on each page

Write your name and  1-5 on the cover

 

 

Acorn Shape Match
Skills:  shape recognition, matching, pasting
Cut acorn shapes from brown and tan construction paper - brown for the top and tan for the bottom.  Draw matching shapes on the top and bottom of each acorn
Directions:
Match the shapes and glue the acorns to the paper

Acorn Number Match
Skills:  number writing, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, counting,
This is a variation of the acorn shape match
Directions:
Roll two die and add them together
Write the sum on the top part of the acorn
Draw the same number of dots on the bottom of the acorn
Glue the acorn halves to a piece of paper

 

  

Fall Tree Words

Skills:  sight word reading, gluing

Trace hand on a blue piece of paper - color with brown marker

Cut out different colored leaves (I did 6 leaves)

Write sight words on the leaves

Directions:

Read each leaf and then glue it to the tree