Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Preschool Halloween Party

Happy Halloween From Mrs. Nathalie's Preschool Class


Here are some of the fun activities, snacks  and games for Halloween

Decorate pumpkins with yarn, stickers, eyes puff balls...

Halloween Craft
Make candy corns. This is great for their fine-motor skills (tear/cut tissue or construction paper)
 
^^^^Look how cute they came out!
 
Make your own mummy with toilet paper.
 
Halloween Game: Wrap your mummy
 
Color your own Frankenstein Mask 

 
 
Eat delicious fancy cupcakes

Halloween food ideas
Here's a great idea for a Halloween treat!
My sister made these by dipping cookies and Nutterbutters in chocolate
 

 

 

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Happy Halloween: Frankenstein Craft

F is for Frankenstein
Frankenstein shape activity

There is some prep, but I try my hardest to have the children do most of the work. 

Materials
Construction paper: green, black, and white
Black & White crayon
Glue
Frankenstein preschool project
 I had them cut  their own hair

Frankenstein Preschool art

I cut 3 sides of the green paper 7x7 and had the kids cut the last side on their own by following a black straight line.
As for the eyes. I cut them myself ( my kids are not able to cut circles yet).

Awesome trick one of my co-workers taught me was, stack a few sheets of paper, staple them so they stay in place and cut away. You can do this with anything you are trying cut multiples in :)

The rest of the activity was a step by step craft. I had them glue the green square to their white matted paper.


Then glue their hair on to their green square, that they had cut out earlier that morning.

  
Then pick the shape of eye they liked, round, oval, crescent and then glue it under the hair. Many of them drew pupils on their eyeballs. 


After everything was glued on, we talked about the different ways we could make our Frankenstein.
Mouth: happy, mad, sad, silly... 
Eyebrows:  one, pointy, wiggly, at a slant, two separate 

Then I had them use their imagination and make their own.



Those "E's" are stitches                            Those round objects are teeth

Have you done a Frankenstein craft with your preschoolers? There are so many more creative ways to make a Frankenstein. When deciding which one to do, take into account the level of your kids :) That it can be a little challenging, but not impossible; this will make it so much more fun for them :)  

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween: Ghost fine-motor activity

Assessing each child's skill level
 
 
I scramble each year for open house to find activities the children have done, that could show the parents where their child's skill was in the beginning of the year. I'm thinking ahead and will have this activity in their open house binder.
 
 
I cut out the ghost by making a simple template myself then drew 3 different lines

 
I had them write their name then cut the lines. After they were done, they were free to decorate their ghost as much or as little as they liked.
 
I wrote the date and will keep it as a reference for their cutting skills as well as their ability to print their name.