Halloween

Halloween

Halloween Projects

Monster Sun Catcher

Here is the link to this project

Tissue Paper Plate Pumpkin

Paper Plate Black Cat

Footprint Candy Corn

Tissue Paper Bat Suncatcher

Footprint Ghost

Jack-O-Lantern Sun Catcher

Fingerprint Bat Silhouette

Beaded Pumpkin

Here are the directions for the beaded pumpkin 

Shine With the Light of Jesus

Here is the link for the poem 

Handprint Spider

Ghost Necklace

Here is the link to this original post when we made these necklaces with my son many years earlier!

Craft Foam Bat

Learning Activities

Witches Hat memory

Here is the link to this Witches Hat Memory game

Halloween Muffin Tin Counting

Skills:  counting, number recognition 1-12

Keely counted out Halloween stickers to place in the number cups

Halloween Count and Stick

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Keely was having so much fun with the cute Halloween stickers, so I quickly made her this activity on scrap paper!

Pumpkin ABC Match

Skills:  upper and lowercase letters, letter matching and letter recognition

Halloween Letter Writing

Skills:  letter writing, ABC order

We have cute Halloween cookie cutters. Keely and I had fun tracing the shapes and cutting them out, so she could practice writing her letters.  So far she can write her letters from A-H!!

Halloween Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Again, we used our fun Halloween cookie cutters to work on making patterns!

Halloween Shapes Counting

Skills:  counting, number order

Here is one last activity using our fun Halloween shapes!

Halloween Counting

Skills:  number recognition, counting, 1-5

Here is the link for this counting sheet

Which is Different? 

Skills:  same and different

Here is the link for these Halloween Which is Different Activities

Halloween roll and color

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Here is the link for Halloween Roll and Color ( we used Halloween Stickers)

Candy Corn Necklace

Candy Corn Necklace - Trace candy corn shape onto white paper, Cut out orange, yellow and white craft foam sections for the candy corn neclace.  Glue the colored pieces to the candy corn shape.  Let dry.  Punch hole in the top of the candy corn and string ribbon through to make necklace. 

Materials Needed:  white paper, pencil, scissors, orange, yellow, white craft foam, hole punch, orange ribbon

Stars and Stripes Necklace and Letter Go Fish!

Stars and Stripes Necklace

This week's activities are reposts from last year!

Day 2 of our Week - Our theme this week is the 4th of July! Our letter of the week is the letter A, and the number of the week is the number 10.

Connor and Lauren with their Stars and Stripes Necklace

Project - Stars and Stripes Necklace. I found the idea for this project out of the July 2006 issue of Parents Magazine. I traced star a star onto red, blue and white foam (2 stars for each color for a total of 6 stars) Then I measure out yarn (I used multi-color red, white, blue) to fit Connor and Lauren. Then I cut a striped red, white and blue straw into 1-inch pieces. Connor and Lauren then alternated stringing stars and straw pieces onto the yarn. When they were finished, I tied the ends of the yarn necklace together. Lauren loved her necklace. Connor is giving his to his Grandma - because "boys don't wear these, Mom!" Oh well, at least he liked making it! :) Materials Needed - red, white, blue craft foam, straws (1 per child), yarn, scissors.

Lauren and Connor making their Stars and Stripes Necklaces'

Letter Go Fish!
Learning Activity/Project - I have been collecting soup can lids for a couple of months now. My Mother-in-law has been too - Thanks Carolyn! After, I collected 26 lids, I wrote each letter of the alphabet on the lids with permanent marker. Then I found Connor's two magnetic fishing poles (one was from a puzzle the other from an outside fishing game). I had Connor and Lauren take turns drawing cards from an alphabet card game. They had to say the letter name then "fish" for the letter. They had fun "fishing" for letters. It kept them busy for a long time and it was a great way to review their letters. They want to make a set with numbers too! :) Materials Needed - soup can lids, permanent marker, magnetic fishing poles

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).

Today's activities

1. Shape - Squares. Tracing, recognizing, coloring

2. The number 10 - writing the number, recognizing the number counting objects . . .

3. The concepts big and small. Color identification with big and small

4. The letter A, a. Writing/tracing the letter A,a

I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Shamrock Beaded Necklace!

Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is St. Patrick's Day. The letters of the week are s, U, u the number of the week is 15.
Project - Shamrock Beaded Necklace- Directions - Cut green ribbon large enough to slip on and off child's neck. String green and white beads onto green ribbon (I had Connor and Lauren make a pattern), Cut a small shamrock pattern out of green craft foam, once you are halfway punch two holes in the side leaves of the shamrock and thread ribbon through the holes, finish stringing the last half of the beads onto the ribbon, Tie a knot to make a necklace. *Connor made a necklace, but he refused to wear it! He is such a boy!!!! Addie is modeling his necklace in the picture along with Lauren. I saw a variation of this craft at http://www.prekinders.com under the St. Patrick's Day Theme. Materials Needed - green ribbon, green and white beads, green foam, scissors, hole punch

Learning Activities:
Today's Activities:
Numbers - 15, 11, 12, counting, recognition
Pre-Reading Skills - cause and effect

Beginning Sounds - Consonant Review, writing beginning consonant sounds

Colors -color review

Writing Letters -Uppercase U

Ghostly Necklace!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is ghosts. The letter of the week is Q, q and the number of the week is 15.
Project - Ghostly Necklace. I found this craft on the website http://www.kidscraftmagazine.com/ - under Ghostly Necklace. I printed off the ghost pattern, cut it out and traced it onto white foam and cut out again. I used the point of my scissors to make holes in the center of the hands as the template shows. I used permanent marker to draw a face on the ghost. Then I tied a small bow with orange ribbon and glued onto the ghost. Connor and Lauren used orange,white and letter beads to spell out their names - and strung the beads onto the ribbon. I threaded the end of the ribbon through the hands of the ghost, and tied the two ends of the cord into a knot to make a necklace. Materials Needed - white foam, ghost template, pencil, scissors, permanent marker, orange ribbon, string or cord, beads (multi-color, letter beads), glue

The Ghostly Necklaces'

Connor and Lauren modeling their creations!

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities:

The letter Q, q - writing, recognition

The number 15 - recognition, writing, counting

Number Review - recognition, counting, following directions