Week 2 of Halloween Fun!

Hello Halloween Week 2!  We are so excited that Halloween is Saturday!

Monster House - Here is the house with the eyes glowing...

Circle Time - Halloween Feely Bag 2 - 
 
Journal Time - Pumpkins - 


Ghost Finger Portrait - I was donated mini black canvases.  We decided to make fingerprint ghosts. 

 The preschoolers drew their own ghost faces.  They turned out super cute!

I think these would make super cute snowmen too.  Just paint the canvas blue instead.  Add a carrot nose...

 

Pumpkin Picking - The pumpkins have been lining our porch for weeks.  The kiddos have been anxiously awaiting the day they get to pick and paint their pumpkin.

Pumpkin Floating and Pumpkin Washing - The kiddos LOVED doing this.  I should have left even more time for them to work.

Pumpkin Books - The kiddos discovered some basic facts about their pumpkins:  weight, girth, float or sink, shape, stem or no stem...

Pumpkin Painting - Lots of paint and then we sprinkled glitter on the pumpkins to make them extra special.


Painted Pumpkins - These sure looked great on the porch this morning.

Science - Mummy Wrap - We talked about what mummies really are and though they're real, they can't walk around.  I showed them a few pictures of mummies in museums.  Then we wrapped a few of our toys up like mummies.

Science - Person Mummy - A couple of kiddos volunteered to be the mummy.  We wrapped them with tp. 

 

Paper Plate Mummy - This was a bit silly, but cute!  We gave our mummy eyes, then we "wrapped" it by using masking tape.

 

Snack - Mummy Dogs (or Mummy Cheese sticks) - The kiddos used their expert wrapping skills to create their spooky snack.

Backyard - Raking Leaves - The kiddos were super excited to create a pile of leaves to jump in.  They worked hard, but we just don't quite have enough leaves yet.  Soon!

Halloween Costumes! - It's party time!

Bat Wings - Here are the younger kiddos flying around the backyard with their wings!

Stickered Pumpkins - The toddlers decorated their pumpkins simply.

Egg Carton - The toddlers enjoyed moving around these eggs.  Back and forth and ...

Haunted Houses -  Using Dial soap boxes and an knife, I quickly created these houses for the kiddos to decorate.  The roof is a 3x5 card hot glued on.  The white pasta is bones from the graveyard.  Best beware!

Halloween Costume Day - I love this day.  The kiddos are so cute in their costumes.

A week on bats with a few mummies

Circle Time - We read this fabulous National Geographic Bat book that showed us many wonderful pictures of bats and told us neat facts.  One thing we learned was that the smallest bat has a wingspan of 5", while the largest bat's is 6 feet!  So we decided to measure our wing span.




Napkin Ghosts - A friend gave me some over-sized napkins.  We used them to make over-sized ghosts!  Perfect!

Science - Bat Hunt - Ms. Sara hid numbered bats around the basement room.  Since we know bats are nocturnal, we knew we'd need a flashlight to find them.  The kiddos took turns finding the bats and reading out the number, then Ms. Sara would share a bat fact with them.

 

Origami Bats - Ms. Sara folded a bunch of bats for the kiddos to decorate.

Tp Bats - Classic, but oh so cute!

The older kiddos painted their first...

Finger Puppet Bats - A favorite from last year and back by request.  Just cut the fingers off of a pair of stretchy black gloves, felt for the wings and googly eyes.

Clothes Pin Bats - We also created these bats who can hang by their toes just like the real ones.  The kiddos painted the clothes pins, I cut wings from craft foam, they picked out the head and googly eyes and I glued it all together with a hot glue gun.

 
Science - Echolocation - We chatted a bit about finding food in the dark (that would be tricky).  Bats have very good eyesight, they also use echolocation (sending out sounds to bounce off things) to find their food.  We tried our hand (or ears rather) at it and found we aren't as good as real bats.

When it was daytime, the bats quickly flew to their caves to sleep...

Flying (running) With Our Bat Wings - I made these wings from 30 gallon black trash bags with ties.  Just fold the bag into fourths, scallop cut the bottom.  Slit up a side seam cutting through the drawstring (you'll have to strip the seam off.).  Then cinch up the draw strings to make a bat cape/wings.  Hard to see in this photo, but super cute and quick and easy.

Mummy Dogs - The kiddos helped me roll the dough into snakes and wrap them around a hotdog to create a mummy.  We made some goofy shaped bread sticks with the extra bits.

Here are our yummy mummies...

Toilet Paper Mummies -  I told the toddlers we were going to be silly and make mummies using toilet paper.  They thought that was really silly.  But what's extra funny is that I realized half way through the project that they didn't know what a mummy is.  What clued me in was this question:
"Is this the Daddy and that's the Mommy?" 

Spoon Mummies - I created a mummy form using a plastic spoon and craft stick halves.  The kiddos wrapped them up and gave them eyes.