Discuss what your children are doing for Halloween. I understand that there are some people who allow their children to dress up for Halloween and go Tick-or-Treating and there are some people that do ...
Discuss what your children are doing for Halloween. I understand that there are some people who allow their children to dress up for Halloween and go Tick-or-Treating and there are some people that do not want their children to do that. This activity is written up for those who do go trick-or-treating AND for those who do not. You are welcome to do both or just choose the one that best fits you and your family or classroom.
Trick-or-Treaters
On Halloween talk with children about various things. You could even write down what they say or make a chart of what they talk about. Ask them questions like: What colors do you think you will see? What costumes do you think you will see? Have some candy out to do a sorting activity with. You can ask the children how they would sort it OR you can give some ideas. First we are going to sort the candy by size, next we are going to sort the candy by color of the wrappers and finally we are going to sort the candy by category.
Non Trick-or-Treaters
Go on a color walk looking for all the colors out for the season. You could take pictures of what you see along the way. When you return from your color walk look at the pictures and discuss the colors you saw.
Extra Content: Brown Owl Brown Owl What Do You See? is a fun way to work on rhyming and color recognition.
We are learning about the letter J this week and so I thought we could color the letter J in pumpkin colors. Pumpkins come in many fun colors and it's okay if a purple happens to be colored as well. Y ...
We are learning about the letter J this week and so I thought we could color the letter J in pumpkin colors. Pumpkins come in many fun colors and it's okay if a purple happens to be colored as well. You can ask the children what colors of pumpkin they've seen. You can put out different shades of orange, white, greens and any other colors you think would be good. Allow children to color their upper case or lower case j's in whatever pumpkin colors they'd like.
Themed Snack: Isaac’s Bundle of Sticks
To make “Isaac’s Bundle of Sticks” for snack today, you will need pretzel sticks. You can use the small red ropes like the ones shown in the pict ...
Themed Snack: Isaac’s Bundle of Sticks
To make “Isaac’s Bundle of Sticks” for snack today, you will need pretzel sticks. You can use the small red ropes like the ones shown in the picture or you can leave those out and have children stack the pretzel sticks one on top of the other. If you do use the red ropes some children will need help to wrap them around and tie them. If you choose not to use the ropes the children can stack the pretzel sticks and then eat them once they are put together they way they’d like them to be.
Since we are learning about pumpkins and halloween let’s decorate a pumpkin by putting a face on it. Using this pumpkin pattern have your child color it and draw their own shapes onto the pumpkin. Y ...
Since we are learning about pumpkins and halloween let’s decorate a pumpkin by putting a face on it. Using this pumpkin pattern have your child color it and draw their own shapes onto the pumpkin. You can cut the pumpkin out of white construction paper so they can color it whatever color they’d like. If you’d like, you can use this pumpkin carving chart and cut out the shapes in black or yellow to put out for your children to glue onto their pumpkin. It’s okay if children glue on or draw the eyes, nose or mouth in a place you don’t think it would go. If the mouth ends up where they eyes would go, it’s okay. Let your children express themselves through their art however they’d like.
