Halloween Ideas

• Make Halloween shirts using handprints--spiders, ghosts, pumpkins, etc.
• Pumpkin Hunt--place pumpkins all around a dark room, let the kids find them with flashlights
• which pumpkin is biggest?  Smallest?  Heaviest? Lightest?
• Carve a pumpkin
• let them help scoop out seeds (and bake them!)
• let them pick the features (use shapes--triangles, circles, rectangles)
• Felt pumpkins--each child gets a felt pumpkin, make a pile of shapes for them to use to make faces
• Halloween movements--float like a ghost, creep like a cat, swoop like a bat, etc.
• Creepy textures--in covered bowls, prepare the following:
• witch's hair (yarn)
• witch fingers (carrots)
• monster eyeballs (peeled grapes)
• monster guts (cooked spaghetti)
• monster teeth (candy corn or popcorn kernals)
• let them feel inside each bowl but not look (you can reveal at the end if you'd like)
• Make a giant spider web out of yarn all around the room.  
• Make ghost/pumpkin balloons.
• Make witch's stew:
• bat wings--triangle crackers
• goblin bones--pretzel rods
• dried bugs--raisins/craisins
• cat eyes--M&Ms
• ghost eyes--marshmallows
• candy corn (if desired)
• bean bag toss into a trick-or-treating bucket
• pin the mouth on Jack-o-Lantern
• mummy wrap--wrap them up in toilet paper, pretend to be mummies
• pass the pumpkin--put crayons inside, pass until music stops, then take out a crayon and name color
• draw an eyeball on a ping-pong ball.  Have them try to carry it across the room on a spoon.