Halloween Party

I can't believe this was the only picture I took today! We ended our day with a Halloween lunch and some extra play time. The kids enjoyed the cute cupcakes Christine made. :)

Preschool 10/27

Theme:
Halloween!

Circle Time

Books: The Halloween Play, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat

We played Trick or Treat memory and Halloween Bingo. I printed them out from a website online and the kids really liked playing both games, Bingo especially. It was easy - only 9 squares but just easy enough that they were interested.

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Halloween costume dress-up with paper doll (and dude).

Sort the monsters eyeballs. There were 6 different colored monsters and eyeballs and each monster had a different number of eyes.

Princesses chatting on their phones.

Pretending they are in the car going to a doctor appointment.

Art

These are the glue ghosts we started on Monday. Basically you just draw an outline of a ghost on wax paper using Elmer's glue and then fill it in with more glue so you can't see the paper. Add some eyeballs an let dry over night.

Ta-Da! Super cute ghosts!
The kids role played with them for a bit today making ghost sounds and chasing each other around.

Did our letter of the week - F is for fish crackers.

Outside/Science

I'd been wanting to do this with the kids and thought what better time than Halloween? I played it off as we were going to mix a secret potion that would become ooze. We started with green food coloring first.

I told the kids to scoot back a bit because they were crowding and I didn't know how crazy it would foam up. This isn't exactly what I'd meant...

Then we added some purple coloring and did it again.

...and again.

They then went and made their own witches soup. The dump truck was filled with rain water and they kept dumping random stuff in - wood chips, leaves, dirt, whatever they could find.

Snack

Fish crackers and raisins

Preschool 10/25

Theme:
Halloween!

Letter: F
Number: 7
Color: Orange and Black
Shape: Triangle

Circle Time

Books: Happy Halloween board book, Cliffords Halloween, Ghosts in the House

We started our theme with just talking about what they know about Halloween - which pretty much summed up to dressing up and candy. I asked them what they did over the weekend, if any of them went to a Halloween party? Isaiah said he went to Olivia's soccer game and stayed home and played games. Megan said her daddy took her to a movie and Red Robin. Tatum said she went to Red Robin too. Lola said I don't want to talk about it. Haha...

Art

Used Halloween stickers and used a picture of a triangle to put them on. Then they practiced with the triangle in the middle and writing the word triangle.

They did some cookie cutter stamping with orange and black paint.

This got REAL messy, REAL fast. The table was basically black by the time they were done. They really enjoyed it though and didn't seem to mind getting messy, I wouldn't expect anything less from preschoolers! :)

We also did some quick glue ghosts...pictures will be in the next post. They had to dry overnight so they weren't quite ready until Wednesday.

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Silly kids trying to decide what they should do next. Isaiah looks kind of scared of Tatum in this picture. She was doing a funny face of course.

They pounded pegs into our class pumpkin (kind of like lite brite except we didn't carve it first). They all kept coming back to this multiple times during the day.

Cute friends digging in the sensory bin.

Finger puppets.

Snack

Open face little bagel with cream cheese and Halloween sprinkles and an orange