HALLOWEEN FUN!!! (great ideas for parties,too)
 
Place a white paper plate, cup and napkin in a medium size brown paper bag for each child. For party entertainment, have the children use orange and black crayons to decorate their bags (for use as place mats), cups, napkins and plates. (Have the children color on the back sides of plates and the outsides of cups so that crayon wax will not be eaten.)

Halloween table cloth
White paper table cloth Sponges Tempera acrylic paint Markers Stickers Halloween cutouts On white paper tablecloth decorate with assorted shapes cut from sponges. Glue on Halloween cutouts or stickers.
 
Have each child wrap and secure a tissue around a lollipop to make an extraordinary ghost! Eyes, a nose and a mouth can be added with a crayon.
 
Let the children tear white paper to make one-of-a-kind ghosts. String the ghosts from every window and door to give the room a festive look.

Serve witches' brew directly from the orange juice bottle. Simply drop a little orange food coloring or red maraschino cherry juice into the bottle! Buy enough big round cookies for the class. Provide bowls of orange frosting     and let the children turn cookies into jack- o'-lanterns (a toothpick makes a good "drawing" tool).

Have each child color a pumpkin pattern to make a personality jack-o'-    lantern (be sure the children write their names on the backs of their pumpkins).    Line up the jack-o'-lanterns and let the children vote on the best personality.

Use a pumpkin pattern to make jigsaw puzzles for the party.

Let each child contribute one or two sentences to a spooky story that you begin.

Provide the children with strips of black and orange construction paper and paste. Have the children make Halloween jewelry to wear during and after the party! (Demonstrate how to split, double, twist, twirl and link strips.

"Pumpkin Pies"
Cut round pie shapes out of orange construction paper.Set out small containers of powdered cinnamon and ginger and place a few whole cloves in a paper cup for each child.Have the children brush glue on their pie shapes.Then let them sprinkle the spices over the glue to create fragrant "pumpkin pies".

Make orange Jello and serve orange koolaid.Use black licorice as straws (cut ends to open)

Have children frost round crackers with spreadable cheese.Raisins can be added for facial features.

Pom Pom Spider
Black yarn
Small square of cardboard
Black pipe cleaners
Googly eyes
Red construction paper
Glue
Wind yard around and around cardboard square until heavily covered. Using a small piece of yarn tie securely at the centre, cut edges and remove the cardboard. Insert three pipe cleaners into the knotted centre and bend to form legs. Glue on eyes if desired, or cut out eyes from red paper. Use thread or yarn to hang spider.

Jack-O'-Lantern with Glowing Eyes Carve your pumpkin as you would normally, then place sections of a lime with rind removed in the eye cut-outs. With a lit candle inside the eyes will glow green.

Feed the Spider
This is a revised version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
On a large piece of white butcher paper or tag board, draw a spider web with a black felt pen. Draw a large spider on the web, at a place of your choosing. Cut out various shapes of green, brown, orange or yellow contruction paper for bugs. Allow the children to decorate their own bugs with crayons or felt pens. (You can also use Creepy Crawlers.) Place a piece of double stick tape on the underside of the bug. Explain to the children how they will be blind-folded and will try to feed the spider with the bug, and that the bug closest to the spider will win a prize. It is usually best to demonstrate with an older child first.

Witches' Hats
Bugles brand snack spreadable cheese round crackers Spread cheese on crackers.
Top each cracker off with a bugle to complete the effect.

Foot-print Ghost Draw around the child's foot. Paint foot and add eyes.
Whisper
(Say it in a quiet, spooky voice and finish with a shout.  The kids love it.)
Listen, listen.  ( Hand behind ear)
Goblins are there. (Point to the door)
Hear them tiptoe To your chair? Don't speak a word. (Finger to lips)
Don't go "ah-choo!"  ( finger under nose)
Don't move about.  ( sit very still with arms close to sides)
Or they'll get YOU!!!  (Shout "you" and Jump up with arms extended)

Buy a small pumpkin. 
Have the children sit in a circle and play a Halloween version of "hot potato" using Halloween or "spooky sounds" music.

Ghost, Ghost, Witch
This game is played like "Duck, Duck, Goose."  
Form a circle and kneel. Choose one child to walk around the outside of the circle chanting, "Ghost,ghost, ghost". When the child taps another child and says "witch," the child tapped chases the initiator around the circle, attempting to tag the child.  If the child who is “it” returns to the tapped child’s spot before the other, he can lose his turn. If not, the child continues walking around the circle, repeating the same procedure.

Jack-o'-Lantern Flashlights
Out of orange construction paper cut circles to cover the ends of several flashlights.Cut jack-o'-lantern facial features out of each circle.Tape the circles to the ends of the flashlights.Give the children the flashlights and let them dance around a darkened room,shining their jack-o'-lantern faces all around.

Vegetable Jacks You don't have to carve a pumpkin for Halloween-originally, jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips and gourds. Ask each child to bring an out-of-the-ordinary vegetable(carrot,gourd,squash) along. Supply pins,sequins raffia,lace,markers,buttons,foil and other craft items.Have a "Most Unusual Vegetable" decorating contest.

Scrambled Jack
No two Jack-o-Lanterns will be the same when this Halloween activity is complete! Here's what to do- ~Cut a variety of geometric shapes (about 10 per child) from orange construction paper. ~Place the shapes in a box. ~Children pick 10 shapes from the box and glue them on to black construction paper to make a jack-o-lantern face.  

After you complete a unit of activities on pumpkins, give each child a Happy Pumpkin CERTIFICATE!

What can you do with all those pumpkin seeds after you scoop them out?
You can make roasted pumpkin seeds OR you can dip the seeds in bowls of food coloring and let them dry. Have kids use them to make a Halloween collage.

Read The Giant Pumpkin by Jean Warren!
Read The Little Orange House by Jean Stangl
Read some Halloween poems!
Read some Halloween books!
 
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