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.

Part of our family tradition is to make fall peanut butter shaped cookies.

and pumpkin shaped pizza.

B loves helping in the kitchen, especially when they're special treats.

Another fun activity we tried was putting glow sticks/rings from the dollar store, in at bath time and we let the fun begin.

Some fun Halloween books to enjoy, sorry some of the images are blurry...

Happy Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins

 B has been asking to carve our pumpkins for over a week since we went to the pumpkin patch to pick them out, but we had to wait for Daddy to come home from a business trip. So this evening we spent carving our pumpkins... love making holiday traditions with this little guy!

Scooping

B did not like cleaning the pumpkins out. 'It's yucky!'

So while Daddy worked on the bigger pumpkins, B got to decorate his own small one with felt stickers. He made an owl and was very proud of his little pumpkin.

Our finished Jack-o-lantern...B said he needed a square nose, ears & eyebrows.

This was another attempt at a free hand design, that ended badly. Especially since the carving knife broke midway through. :(   So we gave B some paint and let him finish it off. Maybe it's just a mom's vision, but I can make out a witch on a spooky Halloween night.

 Happy Halloween from our family!