Halloween Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Jack-O-Lantern Faces
• Spiders with Folded Legs
• Bats
• Skeletons
• Folded Paper Pumpkin
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Pumpkin Patch
• Spiderwebs
• Skeletons
• Witch Potion
• Jack-O-Lanterns

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Jack-O-Lantern
• Spider
• Skeleton
• Monsters

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• The Monster at the End of This Book
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• I Spy Spooky Night
• The Gruffalo
• Room on the Broom
• Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
• How to Catch a Monster
• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
• Go Away Green Monster
• Spookie Pookie
• Little Owl’s Night
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
• The Bernstein’s Bears Prize Pumpkin
• Boo! Baa La La La!
• Ten Timid Ghosts
• You’re my little Pumpkin Pie
• Pete the Cat Trick or Treat
• The Scarecrow
• The Big Pumpkin
• The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin
• Pumpkin Jack
• Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
• The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
• The Scarecrow’s Hat
• Round Robin
• Peek-a Who?
• Five Little Pumpkins

SING (Songs/Poems)

• H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N

EAT (Snacks)

• Pumpkin Muffins
• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips