Halloween Week

Welcome to our week of Halloween fun!

Haunted Houses - The kiddos created spooky, haunted houses...beware!  I used Dial soap boxes, bent a 3x5 card in half and glued it on for the roof.  Then hit them real fast with some spray paint I had in the garage.  Once dried I used an exacto knife to cut out the doors and windows.

 I dug through the craft box to find odds and ends for making the houses spooky.  The dyed pasta and spider rings were a hit, as well as the erasers from Target.

 Glue Ghost Necklaces - This is an experiment.  We'll see how they work.  In theory our little ghosties just need to dry for a few days, then they'll peel off the wax paper and we can make them into spooky necklaces. ... We shall see....

 Googley eyes may have been a better choice, but the kiddos always love buttons.

Snack - Ghost Bananas - Ooooh!  Another class favorite.

Bread Tag Monsters - Spooky friends...

5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate - Youngsters - The three year old class LOVES this rhyme, so I put these together this morning for them.

The kiddos added a moon and spooky stickers.  Then we sang the rhyme over and over so they could act it out with their gates.

Journal Time - These kiddos just LOVE putting Halloween stuff in their journals.

 

Yahoo for pumpkin day!  We've been waiting all month for this day!

Pumpkin Sharing -  A kiddo brought everyone a pumpkin from her garden!  Thank you so much!

Pumpkin Time! - We went out front to pick out our pumpkins.  Then we carried them (with big muscles) to the backyard.

 

Pumpkin Wash and Dry - Got to get those pumpkins clean!

Later I pulled out our mini pumpkins for washing while we were playing in the backyard.

Pumpkin Decorating - We used various mediums:  Sharpies, tatoos, tape ...

 

Raking Leaves - We've been planning this ever since we noticed the big tree in the backyard was loosing it's leaves in the wind.

Cotton Ball Ghosts - Toddlers - Cute and easy.  The kiddos always like working with cotton balls, unless they have gluey fingers!

Train Track Oo - Pretty fabulous for a 2 year old Spiderman!

Mummified Kiddos - These turned out super cute!  Of course the kiddos thought I was turning them into mommies instead of mummies .... ha!

Pumpkin Decorating - Tissue Paper - Toddlers - This is my new favorite decorating style for littles!


Leaf Fun - Toddlers -

 

 The water table quickly became full of soggy leaves!