There was no0 shortage of activities for us to do this week. We had Halloween themed number matches, mazes, books, songs, play-doh mats, and finger plays. Below is some of what we did. Everything is not pictured below, it's becoming too distracting to take pictures of everything.
We painted with plastic spiders. The children dragged them, stamped them and then eventually forgot all about them and just used their fingers. They turned out great!
We used fine motor skills by tearing up the tissue paper and placing them on the contact paper to make ghosts. Then the kids glued on their eye balls with pompom balls.
We used our fine motor skills again to tear up toilet paper and glued it on to our mummies. It was adorable to hear the kids talking about their "mommies" and then hear them disagreeing saying they wanted to make "daddies" not "mommies". We discussed the placement of the eyes prior to the kids gluing them on and to my surprise all the kids put them on in the correct place.
We painted brown paper bags orange (the kids had no idea why), then let them dry and the following day we glued on jack o'lantern faces. The bags were later used as their goodie bags for our Halloween party (no candy was given, much to their disappointment just goldfish, little toys such as kazoos, play-doh, crayons, tattoos and so on).
The kids were also given coloring pages and blank paper to color poor draw pictures.
We walked around the room like mummies and pretended to fly around the room like ghosts. We also walked like a spider.
We used the inside of a pumpkin for a sensory bag.
We had a spider walk race, which is exactly as it sounds.
We made spider webs using yarn on the chair legs.
We talked about Halloween safety.
I had a pumpkin seed shaker to add to our music area.
I made Halloween sticker patterns and a Halloween match up game also using stickers.
We had a pumpkin sorting game we played as a group.
We painted with plastic spiders. The children dragged them, stamped them and then eventually forgot all about them and just used their fingers. They turned out great!
We used fine motor skills by tearing up the tissue paper and placing them on the contact paper to make ghosts. Then the kids glued on their eye balls with pompom balls.
We used our fine motor skills again to tear up toilet paper and glued it on to our mummies. It was adorable to hear the kids talking about their "mommies" and then hear them disagreeing saying they wanted to make "daddies" not "mommies". We discussed the placement of the eyes prior to the kids gluing them on and to my surprise all the kids put them on in the correct place.
We painted brown paper bags orange (the kids had no idea why), then let them dry and the following day we glued on jack o'lantern faces. The bags were later used as their goodie bags for our Halloween party (no candy was given, much to their disappointment just goldfish, little toys such as kazoos, play-doh, crayons, tattoos and so on).
The kids were also given coloring pages and blank paper to color poor draw pictures.
We walked around the room like mummies and pretended to fly around the room like ghosts. We also walked like a spider.
We used the inside of a pumpkin for a sensory bag.
We had a spider walk race, which is exactly as it sounds.
We made spider webs using yarn on the chair legs.
We talked about Halloween safety.
I had a pumpkin seed shaker to add to our music area.
I made Halloween sticker patterns and a Halloween match up game also using stickers.
We had a pumpkin sorting game we played as a group.