Halloween Preschool

I thought I would share some of the Halloween projects/activities we've done for preschool. I am teaching Cyrena preschool by herself since we moved. I thought she would hate it because she's such a social learner, but she seems to be enjoying it so far. Here are some of the Halloween things I've done with the girls, in case you want to squeeze anything else in the next couple of days!

Cyrena and I have been working a little on addition--mostly more/less concepts. We played this pumpkin addition game that I found here.

The girls used shapes to make jack-o-lantern faces. They played with these a lot!

Cyrena is matching colored googly eyes to the colored monsters. I found this here.

This was a tray I set up for Natalie. We do trays every preschool morning. Natalie tonged pom-poms into cupcake liners

We sorted Halloween confetti; skulls, bones and pumpkins

Cyrena is making a pattern with Halloween stickers. She made an AAB pattern. Natalie just worked on putting stickers into the boxes on the paper.

We cut out skeleton bones then connected them with brads. Cyrena did all the brads by herself.

The girls loved their skeletons and played with them all day!

One morning on a walk, we collected some smooth, large rocks. We decided to make a pumpkin rock family. So we painted them orange, waited for it to dry, drew faces, then filled in the faces with black paint.

I never said we were artistic but there we are. Even the baby was included....the one on the far left that looks like a potato

Natalie is supposed to be sorting orange and white pom-poms. She loves using the tongs. In the background Cyrena is working on matching short vowel words with pictures. Not really Halloweenish but something she needs to practice.

We cut out a ghost pattern, colored each side and labeled them 1 and 2. We threw it up in the air and recorded which side it landed on. This led to great discussions about more/less-something we're working on in math. We would record then I'd ask her how many more greens we would have to flip for them to be equal, etc. It got her brain working! She really enjoyed this activity.

I cut out small pumpkin shapes, stems and leaves. The girls drew faces on them (I drew them for Natalie). Then they glued on the stem and leaves.

Then we stapled them to some twin and hung them from the doorknob. Cute and easy.

We played a pumpkin jumble game. It had a pattern block key to follow. She would roll the dice then place the corresponding pattern block on the pumpkin's face. If she rolled a 1 she got to pick any piece. If she rolled a 6 she had to take a piece off. She loved it. I found it here. Just ignore that stinker in the back playing with scissors....

I wrote a bunch of sight words on some pumpkins. She would pick a pumpkin out of the jack-o-lantern, read the word to me, then roll the dice and move along on the gameboard. I did put a few pumpkins in there that just had letters on it for Natalie to practice. She doesn't really know any specific letters but she knows they make sounds so when she sees any letter she immediately starts making sounds.....funny.

There were a few other things we did that I didn't get pictures of. Hey, sometimes it's hard to get off the floor to grab my camera when we're busy working!