Playschool & Preschool Halloween Activities!

These are some fun Halloween Activities you can do with your kiddos at home or in preschool/playschool:

Frankenstein Feet Monsters:

I pulled one kid one and a time and painted the bottom of their foot green then pressed it onto the paper.  I had a bowl ready to wash off their foot. :)

Once it dried I added black hair, eyes, and mouths with a black sharpie.

Then, used a silver sharpie to draw the "nails" on each side of the head.

Then, I wrote their name with "stein" on the end.

Macystein

Emmastein

Noahstein

Brandonstein..... you get the idea. :)

Halloween Slime:

I LOVE this slime recipe from Skip to My Lou

I've used it for preschool and for my son's ninja turtle birthday party.

 I like it because the kids each get their own bag and it's made with liquid starch- not borax.

I had little containers for all my student's to take home the slime they made at school.

Draw a pumpkin face:

I had this as a welcoming activity.  Kids drew a pumpkin face on their pumpkin.  Used an Expo Marker with the pumpkin in a protective sleeve.

What is Missing?  Jack-o-lantern Game:

We played this in circle time.

One kid would step out or close their eyes.  We would take off a piece of the jack-o-lantern's face.  Kids would open eyes or come back in the room and try to guess what is missing.  They loved this game.

Potato Pumpkin Stamps:

These worked ok... I would make sure there isn't too much paint of each plate. Or else it will splatter everywhere.  And it's tricky to make the faces in the potato.

Halloween Sticker Sheets:

You can find these cute sticker sheets here at Oriental Trading.

Spider Web Marble Art:

One on my FAVORITE Halloween crafts.  

Squirt a little bit of white tempera paint in a paper cup.  Drop a marble inside.  Then, use a spoon to scoop it out and put it on a tray with black construction paper.  Kids like to roll the marble around making a spider web.

Then, I just printed, cut, and glued these spiders on the page.  

You can download the spiders I used HERE

Or if the kids are older you can make the hand spiders. Where you put paint on both the kids hands. (no thumbs)  Then, they press them on the sheet and you can use hole reinforcements or wiggle eyes for the eyes.

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These are some fun Halloween Activities you can do with your kiddos at home or in preschool/playschool:

Frankenstein Feet Monsters:

I pulled one kid one and a time and painted the bottom of their foot green then pressed it onto the paper.  I had a bowl ready to wash off their foot. :)

Once it dried I added black hair, eyes, and mouths with a black sharpie.

Then, used a silver sharpie to draw the "nails" on each side of the head.

Then, I wrote their name with "stein" on the end.

Macystein

Emmastein

Noahstein

Brandonstein..... you get the idea. :)

Halloween Slime:

I LOVE this slime recipe from Skip to My Lou

I've used it for preschool and for my son's ninja turtle birthday party.

 I like it because the kids each get their own bag and it's made with liquid starch- not borax.

I had little containers for all my student's to take home the slime they made at school.

Draw a pumpkin face:

I had this as a welcoming activity.  Kids drew a pumpkin face on their pumpkin.  Used an Expo Marker with the pumpkin in a protective sleeve.

What is Missing?  Jack-o-lantern Game:

We played this in circle time.

One kid would step out or close their eyes.  We would take off a piece of the jack-o-lantern's face.  Kids would open eyes or come back in the room and try to guess what is missing.  They loved this game.

Potato Pumpkin Stamps:

These worked ok... I would make sure there isn't too much paint of each plate. Or else it will splatter everywhere.  And it's tricky to make the faces in the potato.

Halloween Sticker Sheets:

You can find these cute sticker sheets here at Oriental Trading.

Spider Web Marble Art:

One on my FAVORITE Halloween crafts.  

Squirt a little bit of white tempera paint in a paper cup.  Drop a marble inside.  Then, use a spoon to scoop it out and put it on a tray with black construction paper.  Kids like to roll the marble around making a spider web.

Then, I just printed, cut, and glued these spiders on the page.  

You can download the spiders I used HERE

Or if the kids are older you can make the hand spiders. Where you put paint on both the kids hands. (no thumbs)  Then, they press them on the sheet and you can use hole reinforcements or wiggle eyes for the eyes.

Playschool~ Teddy Bear Picnic!

Teddy Bear Picnic!

Check out what we did for Teddy Bear Picnic Week:

Snack:

B is for Bear

Ingredients: Bagel, Peanut Butter, Ritz crackers, and Chocolate Chips.

We ate these with our teddy bears on a picnic blanket.

Math:

Using our counting bears, the kids put a bear on each circle I had on the page.  Then, they would touch the bears' head as we would count aloud.  Helps with one to one correspondence

. 

We completed this Teddy Bear Exploration Page about our bears and used cubes to measure it's height.  Click on the link to find the FREE printable.

Gummy Bear sorting and graphing.  I found these worksheets HERE.  But, you have to download the picture and put it in word.  So you can download my graphing page HERE.

A picnic busy bag where the student puts the number ants on the food.

You can find this Busy Bag in my Etsy shop here.

Reading & Craft:

We read "Corduroy" by Don Freeman

I printed the bear HERE and had the kids do marble art with brown paint.

I cut out these green overalls and had them glue a button, eyes, and nose on their Corduroy. 

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Teddy Bear Picnic!

Check out what we did for Teddy Bear Picnic Week:

Snack:

B is for Bear

Ingredients: Bagel, Peanut Butter, Ritz crackers, and Chocolate Chips.

We ate these with our teddy bears on a picnic blanket.

Math:

Using our counting bears, the kids put a bear on each circle I had on the page.  Then, they would touch the bears' head as we would count aloud.  Helps with one to one correspondence

. 

We completed this Teddy Bear Exploration Page about our bears and used cubes to measure it's height.  Click on the link to find the FREE printable.

Gummy Bear sorting and graphing.  I found these worksheets HERE.  But, you have to download the picture and put it in word.  So you can download my graphing page HERE.

A picnic busy bag where the student puts the number ants on the food.

You can find this Busy Bag in my Etsy shop here.

Reading & Craft:

We read "Corduroy" by Don Freeman

I printed the bear HERE and had the kids do marble art with brown paint.

I cut out these green overalls and had them glue a button, eyes, and nose on their Corduroy. 

Playschool: Transportation!

Transportation Week!

These are the activities we did that went along with Transportation:

RACE CARS:

Each student got a car and colored it with sharpies.

You can buy them from Oriental Trading HERE

We then raced them on the race car track!  They LOVED this!

 RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT!

I used my Yacker Tracker to talk about the different colored light symbols.

We played Red Light, Green Light.

R IS FOR RACECAR, DO A DOT PAGE:

I use bingo markers for Dollar Tree.

You can find this free printable HERE at makinglearningfun.com

 COLOR CARS MUSICAL CHAIRS:

The kids LOVE this!  The kids "drive" around using their steering wheel (a paper plate) when the music plays.  When the music stops, they run to a chair.  Each chair has a different color car on it. I then go around the room asked them to tell me the color car they are sitting in.  Great for color practice!

 TRANSPORTATION CUT & PASTE PAGE:

Great practice for positional words! Up, down, on, in, etc...

You can find this free printable HERE on preschoolmom.com

 TRANSPORTATION SIGNS SHADOW MATCHING:

You can find this trasportation sign shadow match game HERE at makinglearningfun.com

 AIRPLANE CRAFT:

I found these airplanes at Hobby Lobby.  Kids used water colors to paint them.  We glued them on blue paper with cotton balls for the clouds.

 STOPLIGHT SNACK: 

Graham crackers, chocolate frosting, and M&Ms

(PS... I use coffee filters for my snack bowls.  So cheap!)

 SINGING TIME:

You can find this cute interactive song HERE at DLTK

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Transportation Week!

These are the activities we did that went along with Transportation:

RACE CARS:

Each student got a car and colored it with sharpies.

You can buy them from Oriental Trading HERE

We then raced them on the race car track!  They LOVED this!

 RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT!

I used my Yacker Tracker to talk about the different colored light symbols.

We played Red Light, Green Light.

R IS FOR RACECAR, DO A DOT PAGE:

I use bingo markers for Dollar Tree.

You can find this free printable HERE at makinglearningfun.com

 COLOR CARS MUSICAL CHAIRS:

The kids LOVE this!  The kids "drive" around using their steering wheel (a paper plate) when the music plays.  When the music stops, they run to a chair.  Each chair has a different color car on it. I then go around the room asked them to tell me the color car they are sitting in.  Great for color practice!

 TRANSPORTATION CUT & PASTE PAGE:

Great practice for positional words! Up, down, on, in, etc...

You can find this free printable HERE on preschoolmom.com

 TRANSPORTATION SIGNS SHADOW MATCHING:

You can find this trasportation sign shadow match game HERE at makinglearningfun.com

 AIRPLANE CRAFT:

I found these airplanes at Hobby Lobby.  Kids used water colors to paint them.  We glued them on blue paper with cotton balls for the clouds.

 STOPLIGHT SNACK: 

Graham crackers, chocolate frosting, and M&Ms

(PS... I use coffee filters for my snack bowls.  So cheap!)

 SINGING TIME:

You can find this cute interactive song HERE at DLTK

Playschool: Feelings!

EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS UNIT:

Welcoming Activity:

We made cards to give to someone we love because that will make them HAPPY!

Game: We played emotions memory game where you had to match the emotions

Game:  I had a :( face on one side of the room and a :) on the other side.  I would say things like "You fall off your bike"  That makes you sad so they would run to the :( side.  I would say "You get a treat".  That makes you happy so they would run to the :) side.

We made these.  Cute.

Click HERE to download this worksheet.  There is one for boys and one for girls.

This is a cute song we would sing

Great read aloud.

I use this busy bag where the kids copy the emotion pictures using Wikki Stix to make the emotion faces.  Kids love it!

I sell them in my Etsy shop here for $7.

I also sell these blank face templates where you can use playdoh or pipe cleaners to make faces.

Great for a playdoh center!!

 You can buy these laminated and all ready to go in my Etsy shop $1.50 each!

(they are colored copied on cardstock and laminated!)

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EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS UNIT:

Welcoming Activity:

We made cards to give to someone we love because that will make them HAPPY!

Game: We played emotions memory game where you had to match the emotions

Game:  I had a :( face on one side of the room and a :) on the other side.  I would say things like "You fall off your bike"  That makes you sad so they would run to the :( side.  I would say "You get a treat".  That makes you happy so they would run to the :) side.

We made these.  Cute.

Click HERE to download this worksheet.  There is one for boys and one for girls.

This is a cute song we would sing

Great read aloud.

I use this busy bag where the kids copy the emotion pictures using Wikki Stix to make the emotion faces.  Kids love it!

I sell them in my Etsy shop here for $7.

I also sell these blank face templates where you can use playdoh or pipe cleaners to make faces.

Great for a playdoh center!!

 You can buy these laminated and all ready to go in my Etsy shop $1.50 each!

(they are colored copied on cardstock and laminated!)