Loving ALL Things Halloween!!

What a fun, simple, and safe Halloween treat!  We made our signature homemade play dough again this week and prepared it for ALL things Fall and Halloween! 

Like your kiddos, mine love this squishy, mushy, cinnamon and nutmeg scented orange dough.  We drew some Jack-o-Lantern faces on the plastic Ziploc bags we were storing them in and voilà!  We had some perfect little play pumpkins. 

The children LOVED helping make this (as always!) and they participated in and completed each step, sans the actual stove top step.  Once completed they thoroughly experienced the warmth of it coming fresh off the stove. 

They pressed it to their little faces, their elbows, their knees, their foreheads...it was EVERYWHERE!  They made it into pizzas, balls, snakes, the letter "H," and, of course Jack-O-Lanterns.

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Our "How Do You Feel" Ghosts!

I combined several learning aspects into these fun little Halloween puppet ghosts.  First, we took some plain white paper sacks and gave each child  a paint pallet of red, blue, green, yellow, and white.  We mixed and splattered the bags front and back.  Then came the dry time.  Once dry we cut out sticky backed glitter foam into oval eyes and crescent mouths.  As we discussed the shapes and observed that when we placed the crescents one way they looked like a smile that made the ghost "happy."  We further observed that when we turned the crescents the other way it looked like a "sad" ghost.  This led to quite a long conversation regarding why the ghosts might be happy or sad!

Mixing, Measuring, Pouring, Experiencing how Red and Yellow food colors swirl together to make orange!

Our Sweet Little Halloween Song...

In anticipation of our fun filled holiday party we are learning this song!