Mommy School Week 6

Halloween Theme
Letter: H
Number: 3
Color/Shape: Orange
Song: The Eensy Weensy Spider

ACTIVITIES & GAMES

Jack-O-Lantern fun
Paint embroidery hoop orange and let child place face inside circle to become
a jack-o-lantern. (You could also paint a paper plate orange and cut out the
center.) Sing this song:

We are Pum pkins

(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
We are pumpkins, big and round
Big and round, big and round.
We are pumpkins, big and round,
Sitting on the ground.

See our great big shining eyes,

Shining eyes, shining eyes
See our great big shining eyes
Shining all around

See our happy laughing mouths

Laughing mouths, laughing mouths
See our happy laughing mouths
Smiling right at you.

Tricks or Guts
Use attached activity to use the sense of touch to explore spooky textures
and find a prize!
Pumpkin Faces (Shapes)
Cut out a large circle shape from orange felt. Place the pumpkin shape on a
large felt board. Set out 2 black triangle shapes, a small square shape, and a
large rectangle shape. Show your child how to arrange the shapes to create
the pumpkins face. Name the shapes as you place them on the pumpkin. Allow
your child the chance to create their own pumpkin faces.

Witchs Buttons
Using attached witch, set out a bowl of buttons. Ask child to find 3 matching
buttons for the witchs dress. You could also ask him/her to find 3 of the
same color, shape, etc.

Halloween Movement
Use attached cards to practice: gross motor skills. (Creep like a cat, march
like a mummy, etc.)

Use attached list to practice fine motor skills. (This is encouraging child to
warm up their hands in different spooky ways. Ghosts flying, etc.)

Jack-O-Lantern
Cut out a pumpkin out of orange paper and add a brown stem. Using black
paper, create a jack-o-lantern face on one side of the pumpkin. Then sing this
song with your own visual aid! Start by holding the pumpkin up on the first
verse, and then turn the pumpkin so it shows the jack-o-lanterns face on the
second verse.

Have You Ever Seen a P umpkin?

(Tune: Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?)
Oh, once I had a pumpkin. A pumpkin, a pumpkin
Oh, once I had a pumpkin with no face at all.
With no eyes, and no nose, and no mouth, and no teeth
Oh, once I had a pumpkin with no face at all.

So I made a jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-latern

So I made a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face
With a big eyes and big nose and big mouth and big teeth
So I made a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face
Pumpkin Pie Playdough
Create pumpkin pie playdough. Using a pumpkin cookie cutter, cut out
pumpkins. You could also place cut-out pumpkins in mini pie pins or tins from
pot pies to create own pumpkin pies.

5 c. flour
2 c. salt
8 tsp. cream of tartar
c. oil
1 container (1.5 oz) pumpkin pie spice
Orange food coloring (2 parts yellow/1 part red)
4 c. water

Mix all of the ingredients together. Cook and stir over medium heat until all
the lumps disappear. Knead the dough on floured surface until it is smooth.
Store in airtight container. Remind children not to taste!

Halloween Imaginative Play

Set out a box of simple Halloween dress-ups. Let children play dress-up!

Hookey Spookey
Cut on 14-inch orange and on 14-inch black crepe paper streamer per child.
Ask them to hold one in each hand. Sing the Hokey Pokey song:
Put your orange hand in,
Put your orange hand out,
Put your orange hand in and you shake it all about.
You do the Hookey Spookey and you turn yourself around.
Thats what its all about.

Repeat: Black hand, orange leg, black leg, whole self.

 ART
Pumpkin fist painting
Have child make a fist and stamp the side of their fist (pinky side) in orange
paint. Stamp on white paper. Let dry and add stem to look like a pumpkin!

Spider Web Marble Painting

Place black paper in the bottom of a pie pan or oatmeal container. Dip a
marble in white paint, put it in the pan and roll it around. Tie a plastic spider
ring onto the web using yarn when paint is dry.

Pumpkin Paper Bags

Stuff a paper bag full with shredded newspaper. Gather the top of the
bag together and twist a green chenille stem around the top of the bag.
Have child paint stem of bag green to form stem. Have child paint rest of
bag orange. Use felt to create a jack-o-lantern face or leaves if you wish.

Pumpkin Stamping
Cut small pumpkins in half. Let children dip pumpkin halves in orange paint to
make pumpkin prints.

Spooky Spider Webs

Draw a spider web using a white crayon on a white piece of paper. Have your
child use black paint to paint over the paper to discover the spider web! Add
a plastic spider if you wish.

Two Liter Ghosts

Fill an empty 2-liter soda bottle with some white tempra paint. Have child roll
bottle around until the inside is covered white. Let child make a ghost face
on the outside of the bottle using markers or paint. Remove cap of bottle
and let dry. Once dry, replace cap, try string around top of bottle, and hang
in room.
Hand Print Spiders
Have child place 4 fingers and palm in black paint. Stamp palm on the paper
to create half of spider. Repaint the fingers and press the palm down in the
opposite direction to create the rest of the spider.

Mummy Art
Cut out a gingerbread man shape out of cardstock or poster board. Have
child paint it with watered down glue. Rip strips of tissue paper and place
them horizontally over the man. Add 2 google eyes, and youve got a mummy!

Ghost Foot Print

Stamp foot in white paint and stamp on black paper. This creates the shape
of a ghost, with the heel as the ghosts head. Add eyes if you wish. We do
this every year on Halloween morning to see how Little Man has grown!

Spider Webs
Paint a paper plate black. Punch several holes around the outside. Fold the
plate in half and punch more holes. Now have your child lace white yarn
through the holes. Start in the center hole and tape the beginning of the
yarn to the center. Lace yarn through holes until your run out, and then
tape the end to the plate. Stick a spider in the web!

Tea Light Jack-o-Lantern

Use diluted tacky glue to paint a baby food jar with glue. Have your child
tear orange tissue paper and cover the jar with orange tissue paper scraps.
Glue on eyes, nose, and mouth cut out of black paper. Put a tea light inside!

SCIENCE
Pumpkin Investigations
Explore a pumpkin with some of the following investigations:
Ask children to guess how much yarn it will take to measure around the
pumpkin.s circumference They can cut the yarn they believe will be the
right amount. Then perform actual measurements with yarn and compare
real circumference yarn to your guess.
Weigh the pumpkin. What else do you think would be a similar weight?
Guess if the pumpkin will sink or float and see if youre right!
To end the activity, cut open a pumpkin and allow children to use their sense
to explore the pumpkin. Dont forget to save the seeds! (The Pumpkin Book
by Gail Gibbons is a great informational book to read with this activity.)

Spider Sifting Activity

Color 1-2 cups of rice orange. Place spiders and other spooky objects in
orange rice. Use this as a sensory tub or ask child to scoop out the spiders.

Play-dough
Add googly monster eyes to the pumpkin pie play-dough, and have children pull
out the monster eyes.

Grow Pumpkin Seeds

Save one of your pumpkin seeds and let it sprout in a ziplock bag with a wet
paper towel. You could also plant your pumpkin seed!

MATH
Pumpkin Seed Counting
Create circles out of orange paper or use orange paper plates as pumpkins.
Write numerals on each pumpkin, and ask child to match the correct number of
pumpkin seeds to each pumpkin. (Example: Match 5 seeds to the pumpkin with
the numeral 5 written on it.)

Sorting
Give children a bowl of 4 Halloween-themed paper cut-outs. Have children
sort the cut-outs.

Pumpkin Sizes
Using attached pumpkin sheet, arrange pumpkins according to size.

Pumpkin Grid Game

Using the attached pumpkin grid game, use candy corn, pompoms, or other
counters to count the pumpkins!
Pumpkin Patch Counting
Have child place orange pompoms in ice cube trays to practice one-to-one
correspondence. Older children could try to use tweezers to pick up the
pumpkins and place them in the ice cube trays.

Mr Pumpkin Head
This is a fun play on Mr. Potato Head. To learn about facial features, create
an orange circle for the pumpkin and funny faces to create a pumpkin head.
You can find printables for this activity here:
http://lilmoptop.blogspot.com/2010/10/mr-pumpkin-head.html

LITERATURE CONNECTIONS
Go Away, Big Green Monster
Make a big green monster out of felt by making patterns of the monsters
face modeling the pictures in the book. As the story is read, add pieces of
the monsters face and then take them away.

Five Little Pumpkins

Read Five Little Pumpkins story by Iris Van Rynbach. You could extend this
story by:
Retelling the story using flannel board figures.
Watching the power point presentation of the favorite Five Little
Pumpkins poem by clicking here: http://prekinders.com/2010/10/five-
little-pumpkins/
Practicing your own version of this poem.
Sing with Raffis version of the poem.

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

After reading The Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson, use the attached life
cycle cards to tell the story of a pumpkins life.
Spooky Story
Read a spooky story, such as The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of
Anything, in the dark. Hold a flashlight under your chin, lighting up your face
as you read it. Try to be very scary!

Feelings
Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley is a great chance to talk about
feelings. After reading the book, ask children to think about what a happy
face looks like, sad face, angry face, etc. Practice making these faces. Then
create jack-o-lanterns faces that look that way.

Pumpkin Picking
Before picking out your pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, a great book to read
is The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King.

FOOD IDEAS
Pumpkin Seeds
After cutting open a pumpkin, roast the seeds. Rinse the seeds and then
season as desired. Bake them in the oven at 300 degrees until browned. (You
can use these later for the pumpkin seed counting activity!)

English Muffin Jack-o-Lanterns

Let your child create their own jack-o-lantern face on an English muffin! Use
toppings to create the eyes, nose, and mouth. Bake and enjoy a tasty treat!

Eyeball Donut Holes

Use a powdered donut hole as the eyeball. Place a gummy lifesaver for the iris
of the eye, one chocolate chip for the pupil, and use red gel icing to create
squiggly lines away from the center of the eye to make them look bloodshot.

Cupcake Spiders
Create chocolate cupcakes according to the directions on the box. Let cool
and frost. Cut Twizzlers vertically and cut in half. Place 4 into each side of
spider. Place M&Ms for eyes.
Individual Mini Pumpkin Pies
1 cupcake liner
1 vanilla wafer (for crust)
c. prepared vanilla pudding
tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 T. canned pumpkin
Cool whip
Candy pumpkin (optional)

Place the vanilla wafer in the bottom of the cupcake liner. Mix pudding,
pumpkin pie spice, and canned pumpkin. Stir and spoon into crust. Top with a
spoon of cool whip and a candy pumpkin.

Witchs Stew
Using attached Witchs Stew recipe, create a spooky snack mix for everyone
to share! Great idea for a play date!

Swampy Treat
Make green jell-o according to directions on the box. Just before it fully
sets, add gummy worms, plastic spiders, and other spooky treats. (Dont eat
the spiders!)

Spider Crackers
Put a dab of peanut butter on a Ritz cracker. Break pretzel sticks into 3-
inch pieces. Stick three pretzel sticks on each side of cracker to create legs.
Place two raisins at one end of cracker for eyes.

Jack-o-Lantern Waffles
Make pumpkin waffles or pancake.s. Let child drop chocolate chips to create
eyes, nose, and mouth. Enjoy your jack-o-lantern!
 FUN SONGS ON CD
We will be singing these fun songs from CD:
Witchs Brew by Hap Palmer
Fat Little Witch by Stephen Fite
Five Little Pumpkins by Raffi
Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett

FLANNEL BOARD FUN

Jack-o-Lantern Faces
Cut a pumpkin out of orange felt. Create various eyes, noses, and mouths out
of black felt. Allow child to create their own felt board jack-o-lanterns. Fo r
older child ren: Take photos of possible jack-o-lantern creations and ask
children to make that specific face using the felt pieces.

Find the attached stories with corresponding visual aids:

Five Little Ghosts
On Halloween Night
Theres Something
 BOOKS
Pumpkin s
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis
Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor
Its Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll
Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino
Somethin Pumpkin by Scott Allen
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll
The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King
Pumpkin Day! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
The Pumpkin Fair by Eve Bunting
The Bumpy Little Pumpkin by Margery Cuyler
The Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson
Pumpkin Town! by Katie McKay
Pumpkin Hill by Elizabeth Spurr
The Littlest Pumpkin by R.A. Herman

Other spooky tales

Boo to You! by Lois Ehlert
The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans by Amy E. Sklansky
Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer OConnell
By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson
Humbug Witch by Lorna Balian
A Very Brave Witch by Alison McGhee
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley
The Soup Bone by Tony Johnston
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler
The Eensy-Weensy Spider by Mary Ann Hoberman
Georgie by Robert Bright
Who Will Haunt My House On Halloween? by Jerry Pallotta
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
 Songs & Fingerplays
Jack-O-Lantern
This is Jack-O-Happy
This is Jack-O-Sad
Now you see him sleepy,
Now you see him mad.
This is Jack in pieces small,
But in a pie, hes best of all!
Peter, P eter, Pum pkin Eater
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldnt keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Mr. P um pkin
(Tune: Where is Thumbkin?)
Mr. Pumpking, Mr. Pumpkin,
Eyes so round, eyes so round
Halloween is coming,
Halloween is coming
To my town, to my town
Im a Little Gho st
(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Im a little ghost
Flying through the air
Boo, boo, boo to you!
Did I give you a scare?
(Continue with additional verses such
as Im a little bat, owl, etc.)
Busy Spider
(Tune: This Old Man)
Busy spider, he made one
Great big web on a drum,
With a spin, spin spin
Round and round he goes.
He puts on, quite a show.
Busy spider, he made two
Great big webs on some shoes.
With a spin, spin, spin
round and round he goes.
He puts on, quite a show.
Busy spider, he made three
Great big webs on a tree.
With a spin, spin, spin,
Round and round he goes.
He puts on quite a show.
Busy spider, he made four
Great big webs on the door.
With a spin, spin, spin,
Round and round he goes.
When he sleeps, no one knows!
Ghost Chant
(Recite very quietly)
Ghost so scary,
Ghost so white,
Dont scare ____ (Shout childs name)
On Halloween night.
Fly Like Bats
(Tune: Frere Jacques)
Fly like bats, fly like bats,
All around, all around
They can go up and down
They can fly without a sound
Fly like bats, fly like bats.
Halloween Jack -o-Lantern Poem
To scare some folks on Halloween,
Ill tell you what Ill do,
Ill hide behind this pumpkin face,
And then Ill yell BOO!
Hello Po em
Hello witches, hello ghosts
Hello pumpkins on a post
Hello goblins and black cats
Hello skeletons, hello bats
Hello owls and hello moon
Halloween is coming soon!
Ring Aro und th e P umpkin s
(Tune: Ring Around the Rosies)
Ring around the pumpkins
Pocket full of spiders
Boo! Boo!
We all fall down!
The ghosts are in the meadow
Drinking witches brew
Boo! Boo!
We all stand up!
Two Little Ghost s Chant
Two little ghosts smiling at you
One named Who,
One named Boo.
(Raise one finger on each hand up at a time in
front of you.)
Fly away Who! (Fly one hand behind back)
Fly away Boo! (Fly other hand behind back)
Come back Who! (Bring one hand in front)
Come back Boo! (Bring other hand to
front while shouting BOO!)
Its Halloween Tonight
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
Its Halloween tonight,
Its Halloween tonight,
Watch how the witches fly
Its Halloween tonight.
Its Halloween tonight,
Its Halloween tonight
See how the goblins prowl
Its Halloween tonight.
Its Halloween tonight,
Its Halloween tonight,
Were out to trick-or-treat
Its Halloween tonight.
Im a Little Pum pkin
(Tune: Im a Little Teapot)
Im a little pumpkin, orange and round
Here is my stem and there is the
ground
When I get all cut up, here me shout
Just open me up and scoop me out!
 Halloween Party Ideas

Relays
Ghost Waiter Each child balances a white balloon on top of a paper plate
and walks across the room. If the balloon falls to the ground, start over
again! Hand off the balloon and plate to next person in line. The first team
done wins!

Spider Walk Each child takes a turn walking across the room like a spider.
(This is like a crab walk.) The first team done wins!

Eyeball Relay Draw an eyeball on a pingpong ball. Each child balances the
eyeball on a spoon and walks across the room. If the ball falls to the ground,
start over again! Hand off the ball and spoon to the next person in line. The
first team done wins!

Mummy Wrap Teams line up in partnerships and run across the room to a roll
of toilet paper. One child wraps up the other child as a mummy. When they
have used all the toilet paper, they run back to the next partnership in line.

Pumpkin Bowling Start with 6 water bottles. Color the water inside
orange using food coloring. Line up the water bottles in pyramid shape3 in
the back, 2 in the middle, and 1 in the front. Help child roll a small pumpkin or
ball to try to knock down the pins!

Dont Eat Jack! Instead of playing Dont Eat Pete!, play Dont Eat the
Jack-O-Lantern using jack-o-lantern faces on a gameboard and candy corn as
the counters.

Pin the Nose on th e Jack-O-Lantern

Using orange poster board, create a large jack-o-lantern face without a nose.
Tape on the wall at childrens level. Cut triangles out of black paper and
mount with tape. Give each child the turn to be blindfolded so they can try
to pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern!
Monster Mash Freeze Dance
Play some fun Halloween music such as Monster Mash. While the music is
playing, the group can dance around the room. However as soon as the music
stops, the children must freeze in their position. Any child who moves after
the music is out and sits down. The last person dancing wins!

Pumpkin Cake Walk

Cut out circles shapes out of different colors of felt and place in a circle on
the floor. Play music and invite children to walk around the circle until the
music stops. When music stops, call a color. The child standing on that color
wins a cupcake!

Pass the Witch s B roomstick

This game is played just like hot potato. Have children stand in circle and
pass the witchs broomstick while music is played. When the music stops, the
child holding the broomstick stands in the center of the circle (the witchs
cauldron). You can sing this song as you play:

Tune: If Youre Happy and You Know It

Pass the witchs broomstick round the circle here.
While you hear the music playing, do not fear.
But it the music stops or if the broomstick drops,
You will ride the broomstick while the goblins cheer.

Other classics Halloween Bingo and Halloween Memory.

 COLOR: ORANGE
Eyeball Sorting
Print and cut out the attached monster eyeball sorting cards. Add a small
bowl of colored wiggle eyes. Match eyes to monsters. (You could also mount
regular google eyes on different colored paper to match to the eyes.)

Orange Collage
Create an orange collage with orange fabric scraps, pompoms, buttons, yarn,
pipe cleaner, tissue paper, paint chip samples, etc.

Orange Interactive Online Game

You can play this game here:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/colors/orange.htm

Orange Songs
Orange from Color songs by Stephen Fite

We Lov e Orange song

(Tune: Three Blind Mice)
We love orange, we love orange.
Yes we do, yes we do
Crunchy carrots so good to eat,
Juicy oranges, oh so sweet,
Pumpkins ready for trick-or-treat.
Yes, we love orange.

Orange Car Hunt

Keep track of all of the orange cars you can find during the week using a
picture graph. (You may have to look long and hard to find orange cars!)

Halloween Color Book

Read Yellow pumpkin, yellow pumpkin book (attached). This is written in the
style of Brown bear, brown bear. Invite your child to pay close attention to
the colors along the way. Dont forget to add a picture of your child on the
last page!
Color Shopping
Go color shopping in each room for things that are orange.

Food ideas
Carrots, oranges, sweet potatoes, Reeses pieces, pumpkin, squash, candy corn,
Cheetos, orange bell peppers, canteloupe, apricots, mangoes, peaches.

Fashion Show
Have a day where everyone in the family wears orange!

Halloween Rubbings
Create a pumpkin and spider shape out of cardboard. Tape the cut-outs
onto a table. Let your child place paper on top of the shapes. Have them
use the sides of an orange crayon to make a rubbing.

Books
Orange by Nancy Harris
 NUMBER: THREE
Writing Rhyme
While practicing writing the number three, say this rhyme to help form the
numeral:
Around the tree, around the tree.
Thats the way to make a three!
I like to practice writing numbers in fingerpaint, shaving cream, sand, or using
Crayolas window crayons.

Numeral Activity
Print out attached numeral sheet. Have children count out the correct
number of Halloween-themed paper cut-outs and glue them to the sheet.

Tactile Learning
Cut the numeral 3 out of sand paper. Have child trace with his/her finger.
You could also do a rubbing of the numeral by placing paper on the top and
coloring over it, perhaps with the color of the week!

Pom Pom Numbers

I always introduce the number of the week using the Pom Pom Number cards
you can download here:
http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/06/preschool-printables-pom-pom-
numbers.html
We lay fuzzy pompoms on the dots on the numeral and count them as we go.

Sticker Sentences
Help your child place 3 stickers (possibly Halloween stickers) on a page. Write
a math sentence at the bottom like George has three ghosts or Suzy has 3
skeletons.

Three Exercises
Have child do 3 hops, 3 stomps, 3 kicks, etc.

Deck of Cards
Have child look for 3s in a deck of cards.
Snacks
Three-decker sandwiches, crackers with cream cheese with 3 raisins on top,
ants on a log with 3 raisins on top.

Books
Three by Dana Meachan Rau
The Three Bears by Byron Barton
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
The Three Blind Mice Inside the Spooky Scary and Creepy Haunted House by
Charles Reasoner
The Three Bears Halloween by Kathy Duval

Songs
Three Halloween Cats Song
(Tune: Three Blind Mice)
Three Halloween cats,
Three Halloween cats,
See how they run,
See how the scat.
They run loose all over town.
They cause a mess and knock things down.
They better watch out or theyll be in the pound.
Three Halloween cats.

Three B lind Mice

Three-Color Painting
Place a piece of white paper inside an oatmeal container. Place globs of 3
colors of paint inside. Place marbles or acorns inside and roll the container
around. Look at your painting!

Triangle Introduction
Introduce that a triangle has 3 sides. Point out the triangles you may see
when making jack-o-lanterns. Also, you could allow your child to take 3 craft
sticks or toothpicks to create a triangle.
Number Review
A fun way to review all the numbers is to sing The Ants Go Marching. Make
number posters and ask child to hold the numeral as you sing about it. March
around the house with the numerals, and really hype up the number three this
week. Perhaps you could stomp the loudest or sing the loudest on this number.

Index Card Counting

On an index card, color 3 dots and write the numeral 3. Have child use a
variety of counters (my sons favorite is matchbox cars!) to place on the
three dots.

Candy Corn Study

Candy corn are perfect to learn about the number three! Show your child
the three colors on the candy corn as well as their triangular shape.
 LETTER H
Flashcards
Use attached flashcards to see what starts with the letter H. Review these
flashcards daily.

Spooky H art
Have child use Tacky Glue to draw an H on wax paper. Cover in black and
orange glitter. Let dry for 24 hours. Peel off of wax paper. Add spiders to
your spooky H!

H is for hands
I always love letting the child paint using something that starts with that
letter. Cut an H out of paper. Let child stamp their hand s in paint and
then onto the letter H.

This would also be a good time to practice the fine motor skills to do hand
exercises.

Songs
Horsi e, horsi e
Horsie, horsie, on your way,
Weve been together many a day,
So let your tail go swish,
And your wheels go round,
Giddy up! Were homeward bound.
(This is fun for Mom & Dad to play horsie!)

Hokey Pokey
If Youre Happy and You Know I t
(Verses for H actions)
If youre happy and you know it, give a HUG
If youre happy and you know it, tap your HEAD
If youre happy and you know it, HOP up and down
Food ideas
Hamburger, ham, hot dogs, honeydew, hashbrowns, hot chocolate, hot fudge,
humice

Witchs ABC Stew

Review all letters by mixing up magnetic letters in a cauldron or bowl. You can
print your own activity here:
http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/2010/10/on-our-shelves-this-
week_21.html

H Activities
Create a large H on the floor using masking tape. Ask child to HOP on the
letter, put their HANDS on the letter, use a HOOLA HOOP while standing on
the letter, etc. Be creative!

Craft Stick Letters

Use craft sticks to create an H. Have an adult hot glue the sticks together.
Instructions:
Print on cardstock. Cut out and laminate for durability. After introducing
the letter, place somewhere that the child will see all week. Refer back to the
letter throughout the week. Have child practice tracing the shape with his
finger.
 Instructions
Print and laminate pumpkins. Have child sort by size.
Instructions
Print and mount pages on cardstock. Insert a picture of your own little
trick-or-treater on the last page. Laminate for durability and bind as a book.
 Halloween Movement Cards
When your child has got the wiggles, draw one of these movement cards to
guide their wiggles!
Visual Aids for 5 Little Ghosts Story
 Instructions:
Print, cut out, and laminate monster cards. Match colored wiggle eyes (or
google eyes mounted on colored paper) to the monsters.
 Instructions
Read the following riddles to your child and see if they can guess what the
riddle is about. Then place the figures on a flannel board.
On Halloween Night visual aids
Instructions
Print, cut out, and laminate for durability. On the first day of the unit,
introduce the letter along with the sound it makes. Post the letter in a spot
where it can be seen throughout the week. (I post ours on the front door!)
 Instructions
Print and cut out numeral. Ask child to glue three cut-outs to the numeral.
This could be three Halloween stickers or cut-outs.
The Eensy Weensy Spider

The eensy weensy spider

Went up the water spout.
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain.
And the eensy weensy spider
Climbed up the spout again.
 Instructions
Print and laminate. Mount backs of pictures with flannel. Use flannel board
visual aids when singing The Eensy Weensy Spider
 Credits
You can find more fun learning ideas here:

PreKinders
Linda's Learning Links
Making Learning Fun -Witch Button Match
Perpetual Preschool
A Childs PlaceThe Virtual Vine
Kiz Club - Song visual aids
Preschool Express
Kiz Club ABC flashcards
Montessori For Everyone pumpkin sequencing cards
Dimple Prints - Letter Banner
Totally Tots - Pumpkin Bowling
A Child's Place
Lil Mop Top
The Idea Room
The Crafting Chicks
Mrs. Home Ec.
Counting Coconuts
Moomoos and Tutus
Naptime CraftersDJ Inkers clip art
Borders for my digital creations came from this paper pack by Echo Park
Paper Co.