What's missing?

I got the inspiration from this post on The Activity Mom blog.  You need some pictures ffrom your old magazines and cut some part of it to make it a Whats Missing game for your preschoolers. R really enjoye dthe game and we also did this game with the pictures which I drew in his easel.

Halloween activities

Besides the craft that we did, we also manage to get some other activities done.

1. R tonged the plastic spiders into a tray

2. I made some printable emergent reader books from makinglearningfun.com . R loves doing such small books.
This one is on spiders and the positional words like spider is above the bat. I gave R the spider stickers to use with.

The other one requires very minimal drawing like legs, head and eyes for the spiders. R enjoyed both the books.

3. The counting matching worksheet which I got from here

4. Phonics Worksheet- In this R matched the picture with the word that they begin with. I got the sheet from here.

5. Spider and Ghost dot to dot.



6. Itsy Bitsy Spider song and props - I printed the props from kizclub.

Candy Corn

We had so much fun with the candy corn. We sorted them, we made patterns with them.

We made this art from tissue paper. We applied the candy corn with vinegar first and then put the tissue paper on them and then again apply a coat of vinegar. Let them soak for few minutes and then peel them off. The color which we got from tissue paper was so bright and fabulous. Loved this art.

Pumpkin art, books and activities

These are some of the pumpkin themed crafts that we did.

1. Marble painting - I cut out the orange construction paper in the shape of pumpkin and gave R some marble sot betippe dinto the paint and the roll the marble over the cut outs pumpkin kept in a tray

2. We made some pumpkin prints from the decorative pumpkins which I had bought from Wlamart

Last but not the least Daddy carved out a beautiful jack-o-lantern. It was so much fun...

I sang many pumpkin songs for him. As all kids love the 5 little pumpkins was the favorite. I made the poem props from childcareland.com

I asked R to tong orange and green pompoms into a pumpkin shaped ice tray.

I got the number cards from prekinders.com and asked R to lay them out in order and then we counted that many number of seeds on the pumpkin.

We also played a grid game from prekinders.com

I got these mini pumpkins from Dollar Tree and asked R to sort them by color and then count them and put the appropriate number card into the bowls.

After reading the book "It's pumpkin time" by Zoe Hall, I gave R the pumpkin's lifecycle cards which I got from Montessori for everyone and asked him to put them in order. He was not much interested in these but after asking him questions like how will you grow pumpkin vine? You need seeds and then what happens to the seed? then R was able to put the cards.

Books -

1. Pumpkin Day Pumpkin Night by Anne Rockwell

2. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

3. It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall

4. Patty's Pumpkin Patch by Teri Sloat

5. Five little pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach

 

Halloween Books

We read many books this time and the following were our favorite:-

1. Aaaarrgghh Spider by Lydia Monks

2. Trick or Treat by Bill Martin Jr

3. Ciifford's First Halloween by Norman Bridwell

4. Itsy Bitsy spider by Iza Trapani

5. Goodnight Owl by Pat Hutchins

6. The Littlest Owl

Halloween themed crafts

We made a spider from strofoam ball by painting it black and then adding googly eyes and pipe cleaners as legs.

To accompany the spider, we also made a spider web by painting a paper plate, then punching some holes in it and then lacing a ribbon through the holes. Don't look at the several holes there, R got really into hole punching and then kept on punching and then we went short on the ribbon.

We also made a bat craft imnspired from notimeforflashcards.com. We made handprimts and cut them out for the wings and I had cut the bat body parts from black construction paper.

This was a very popular craft as R asked to make this craft again and again for several days. I guess it was probably because he could complete the craft all by himself with minimal help from me and he gets a sense of accomplishment by doing so. This owl craft was inspired from DLTK.

No Halloween crafts are complete without the ghost. We had already made the paper plate ghosts from FamilyFun

But when I saw this shaving cream ghost at notimeforflashcards.com I knew R would love it. So we made more ghost. But then it was R's idea to put orage color in the shaving cream and make some puffy pumpkins too and since as R said " The pumpkins which are not ripe are green so lets make some unripe pumpkins too".

He got really creative that day and asked for orange and black beans which I wan't sure of what he was going to do with them. But he made such a creative and beautiful pumpkins by doing this beans craft on the pumpkins.

Halloween Sensory bin and playdough

This is our Halloween sensory bin.I wanted to add black and orange beans but were out of it so I added oatmeal and skeleton, spooky spiders, creepy snakes.

I also made an orange playdough for him to play with the Halloween themed cookie cutters which I brought from Walmart. W ehad fun with various shaped ghosts, bats, cat and even a haunted house.

Fall Books

We read many books and some of the favorite were "I know it's autumn" by Eileen Spinelli , "Fall Leaves Fall" by Zoe Hall.

Fall themed crafts

We made a fall leaf craft using food colors and leaves made from coffee filters inspired from notimeforflashcards.com

We also made a squirrel craft from shredded wheat cereal and acorn craft from oatmeal and chocolate cereal. The acorn craft was inspired from notimeforflashcards.com

We also made leaf rubbings. R enjoyed them so much and we made several for many days.

We also made Leaf Man inspired from the book "Leaf Man" by Lois Elhert.

Leaf Sun Catcher