Halloween Fun!

Halloween and Fall Fun

Halloween is a fun and exciting time in the kindergarten classroom. Everyone is getting ready for the class party, lots of sweet, yummy treats, and dressing up in scary costumes. With these ghostly ideas you can create a spooky, but age-appropriate lesson plan for your Halloween celebration.

Paper Plate Spiders
Large paper plate (body)
Small paper plate (head)
Black streamers (legs)
Wiggly eyes
Washable black tempera paint
Paintbrush
Stapler
Fishing line

Staple the small plate to the large paper plate. Provide each child with black paint and a paintbrush. Have the child paint both sides of the plates black. Once the paint is dry, add the black streamers for legs and wiggly eyes. Hang the spiders from the ceiling using fishing line.

Make this pumpkin spice play dough during large group time.

Pumpkin Spice Play Dough
5 ½ cups of flour
2 cups of salt
8 tsp. Cream of tartar
¾ cups vegetable oil
1 ½ oz. Pumpkin pie spice
Orange food coloring
4 cups of water

Combine the ingredients together in a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until smooth and free of lumps. Remove the play dough from the play dough from the saucepan and allow to cool for 10-12 minutes. Kneed the dough on a floured surface until smooth.

Leaf Painting
Leaves
Red, orange, yellow and brown tempera paint
Construction paper

Let the children choose a color and paint their leaf. Lay the leaf on a flat surface. Have the child put the construction paper on top of the leaf. Have the child rub their hands over the paper. Allow the child to repeat the process as many times as they want on the paper.

Halloween Fingerplays

Black Cat
A big black cat with eyes so green
(point to eyes)
Went out on the night of Halloween
He saw a witch
(Bring fingertips in a peak over head)
He saw an owl
(Form circles around eyes with fingers and thumbs)
And then he began to “Meow, meow, meow.

Halloween Recipes

Halloween Cat Cookies
Candy corn
Oreo cookies
White frosting
Black licorice
Red and green M&Ms

Spread the frosting on the cookie. Place two green M&Ms on the cookie to create the eyes and a red M&M to make the nose. Cut the licorice into 1 inch pieces and place them on the cookie as whiskers.
Next, place a dab of frosting on the bottom of two pieces of candy corn to make the cat ears.


Leafy Pile of Goodness
5 1/2 cups cornflakes
1 cup Karo syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter

In the microwave melt the Karo syrup, sugar and peanut butter together. Pour over the cornflakes and put them in “piles” and allow to cool. Eat and Enjoy!