Miller Academy: Halloween

We've spend a few weeks learning about Autumn or Fall and all the things that occur during this season. This week we've added in Halloween activities, to keep in the 'spirit' of things.

Making flannel board jack-o-lanterns.

Pumpkin size sorting.

This was a fun and tasty game. You place a candycorn on each number (1-12), roll the dice and match the number. Then eat the candycorn that was on the rolled number. B loved this game, mostly because he got to eat candy. ;)

B had a lot of fun with this too. It's simply using a hammer and some nails to make holes in a pumpkin. I was going to give him dots to aim for, but instead just let him nail where he wanted. I was hoping that the holes would be big enough to let light out, but they weren't. I've heard you can use a drill to do this too. We may try that another year.

We played with playdoh and halloween cookie cutters. He also had a little help making a fall tree.

Our skeleton friend...so he's really hard to see, but isn't he cute! This project turned out to be more work for mommy than B. It's definately an older child's activity. However, while I was cutting everything out, B was asking all kinds of questions about bones and where all of those were on his body. Patterns for this cute guy can be found here.

We played 'hide and seek' for Little Ghost, while enphasising colors.

Little Ghost, Little Ghost

Where are you at?

Little Ghost, Little Ghost

What color is your house?

(knock on door) Little Ghost are you in the (red) house?

Then move the house to see who's hiding underneath. We hide other Halloween items, like a bat, jackolantern, & pumpkin under the other houses, so there was always some kind of surprise.