Themes & Curriculum : Halloween

Halloween

Crafts

»Jack O' Lantern Wind Socks - cut black construction paper into circles, triangles and squares. Let children choose shapes and glue them on a piece of orange construction paper to make a face. Help children glue the orange piece of paper to make a cylinder. Have children cut out five streamers and help them glue around bottom of cylinder. Use a hole punch in top of cylinder and thread yarn through the holes and tie the ends.

Activities

»Peanut butter pumpkins - you will need for each child: 
1 slice of bread 
1 tbsp. peanut butter 
1/4 cup raisins 
1/2 banana 
1 celery stick 
large, round or pumpkin cookie cutter 
measuring cup or spoons 
plastic knife 
Have kids wash celery and talk about why this is important. Help kids cut celery into sticks with plastic knife give each child a slice of bread and let them cut out pumpkin shape. Help kids measure peanut butter and talk about were it comes from. Have kids spread it on their bread. measure raisins and talk about were they come from. Give kids 1/2 banana and let them slice. After first cut ask if they are same or different. Let kids finish decorating their pumpkins and add celery for top.

»Science - hang children's wind socks outside so they can watch them. Ask them when it is windy and which way the wind is blowing.

Circle Time

Five little pumpkins 
hold out hand with five fingers up.

5 little pumpkins sitting on the gate.
the first one said, "Oh my it's getting late!" (wiggle first finger)
the second one said, "There's witches in the air" (2nd finger)
the third one said, "But we don't care" (3rd finger)
the fourth one said, "Let's run let's run." (4th finger)
the fifth one said, "Isn't Halloween fun?" (5th finger)
wooo went the wind
out went the lights (clap hands once)
and the 5 little pumpkins ran fast out of site (put hand fast behind back after hand clap)

I'm A Little Pumpkin
Sing to the tune of "I'm A Little Teapot"

I'm a little pumpkin, short and stout,
Packed full of seeds that you can scrape out.
When you're all finished, then I'll be,
The cutest jack o' lantern you ever did see!

Three Little Witches

One little, two little, three little witches
Fly over haystacks, fly over ditches.
Slide around the moon without any hitches,
Heigh, Ho, Hallowe'en's here!

What Will You Be?

I think I shall be a ghost tonight (Point to self.)
Or maybe a big black bat (Arms apart for size of bat.)
Would you like to be a Hallowe'en witch?
And wear a high pointed hat? (Hands together)

Skin and Bones

There was an old woman all skin and bones,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
SHe lived down by the old graveyard,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
One night she thought she'd take a walk,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She walked down by the old graveyard,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She say the bones a-lying around,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She went to the closet to get a broom,
Oo-oo-oo-oo.
She opened the door and -------
BOO!!!

Books

Touch and Feel Halloween - (DK Publishing) 
The Hallo-Wiener- Dav Pikey 
Pumpkin Moonshine- Tasha Tudor 
Zoom Broom- Margie Palatini 
Angelina's Halloween- Katherine Holabird 
The Shy Scarecrow- Mary Packard 
Clifford Glow in the dark Halloween- Norman Bridwell 
Froggy's Halloween- Jonathan London 
Arthur's Halloween- Marc Brown 
Mouse's first Halloween- Lauren Thompson 
Make your own Halloween Treats- Sonali Fry

Links

Learn all about Bats.

Decorate and paint a pumpkin at Sear's Pumpkin Patch.

Visit halloweenkids.com for all kinds of Halloween fun.

---

 

Special thanks to:

Halloween bear provided by dlaweb.com
for the graphics on this page.

Copyright © 2000-2004 Teddy Bears' Learn & Play Family Child Care.  All rights reserved.

---