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Thursday, October 4, 2018


Happy Haunted Halloween Tot Fun
Crafts, music ideas, and more tot learning fun
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H is for a h-h- happy haunted Halloween


Introduction:
Teach the tots that each has a house or home. Play the home match.



Who lives in a hive? Count all of the bees in the hive (5). Do the activity verse with this.
Tell them about a haunted house found in the story, "Hansel and Gretel". Use the board pieces with the full sized story.

 

 
Full sized story
 

 

 

What makes you happy?
song: "When :Your Happy and You Know It"



Check these Happy Jack o' lanterns out.

Find the 2 jack o' lanterns that are the same.

Haunted House Craft:
You can make this craft with a lunch sack
First use this haunted house to find all of the hidden Halloween fun.
Cut out the haunted house and mount to a lunch sack that is standing. Decorate the lunch sack with sticky monsters and happy Halloween things. The lunch sack can now be filled with candy treats for a happy Halloween. 


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To learn more about seed to pumpkin and then to a jack o' lantern, read the story, "My Pumpkin Jack" by Brenda Chadburn.
Story:

This is the Board Story version




You may use these finger puppets to go along with the story.




 

 

 




The short of it version 8 mini pages









 Learn how a seed becomes a pumpkin, which then can become a jack o' lantern. Place the seed to jack o' lantern cards in order.
(a sequencing activity)
 




A Short Jack o' lantern story shaping up











Here is a "My Pumpkin Jack" craft
Cut out the pumpkin and parts. Let the tot glue the parts for the face on the pumpkin. It is now a 
jack o'lantern. (Color)





Here is a monster story about some Halloween Haunts. Don't be a monster, but use good manners at Halloween for a Happy Halloween. 
 

 



Monster finger puppets are fun with this story.

Here is a monster munchy game.
Cut out the monster head and mount it to a lunch sack that is standing.
Cut out the mouth hole so that you can feed the monster the "M" things that were eaten in the story.
 

Make a mini Pocket Monster microstrip story
                                          











Cut out the 2 strips. 
Fold back and forth for a six page pocket book story. Let them read along with you.



Do the monster match. Turn over the monster heads and let the tot choose 2. If there is a match, then the tot keeps it. Move to the next person. The game is over when the matches are gone.

 

Dance to  the Monster Mash" in a circle. Make as many monsters as you need for your group. Name a monster. Whoever is standing on that monster remains for the next match. Remove a monster each round. The game is over when the last monster is standing.





Make a Monster Mask
You will need: 2 strings, a paper plate and a mummy page to cut out. punch a hole on each side of the plate for the string to be tied to or tape to a large craft stick. They can decorate with marshmallows or cotton balls. Let them dance with their circle masks to the song.


Here is some fun monster math.

Haunted Snacks:

Haunted Owls ooooooo
You will need one square chocolate graham, 2 mini oreo cookies, frosting and a candy corn for the nose. I like to give them a plate to make the owl on.

Make 8 legged spiders
You will need mini moon pies, 8 pretzel legs, frosting, and 2 chocolate chips. (Have them make the owl on a paper plate.)



Have them poke 8 pretzel legs through the squishy side of the spider. Spread white frosting on the back of the chip. Then place the 2 eyes on the pie body of the spider.


Witch Head Snack
You will need: 1 sugar cone for hat, 2 chocolate chips for the eyes, 1 mini white doughnut for the head, snack licorice cut it in shreds or peel it, frosting for glue, 1 candy corn for the nose, and a paper plate to make the witch on. 
  
Place the white doughnut on the plate.
Dip the ends of the licorice strands in frosting and lay on the flat doughnut. Spread frosting around the cone hat edge. I let them pipe it with a small baggy filled with frosting and clipped on the end. Twist the baggie around the top and squish from the bottom where the hole is. Squeeze frosting on the back of each chip and then push the pointed side into the side of the doughnut for eyes. Eat your witch.



Make some marshmallow treats. Get a cookie cutter ghost to cut them in the shape of a ghost.





More Haunted Halloween Crafts


Bats


You will need an egg section, wiggle eyes, glue, the bat wings cut out and black marker.
Glue the bat wings to the egg section. Glue on the wiggle eyes in the front of the egg section. 

Lace Ghosts
Copy the ghost. Cut it out. Punch holes around the ghost with the dots are. (Some kids love to do this themselves.) Cut a long piece of string to lace up the ghost. It will be open at the bottom. Let them put on their glove ghost.

Pom Pom Ghost

Glue on some white pom poms.




Summary: white ghost- orange pumpkin, 5 bees in a hive, circle mummy mask, "h" for happy haunted Halloween, 
Other Concepts: sequencing from seed to pumpkin, happy jack o'lantern match, what makes us happy, math basics, matching monsters, and manners.

Bonus Bingo
Draw a picture and let them mark their cards with a small piece of candy like Skittles. Three in a row for Bingo.












Happy Halloween~