Halloween

 We've had a pretty busy week getting ready for Halloween.  Next week we will go trick or treating, but we spent this week making decorations.  Mother Goose Time includes a monthly celebration kit in every box.  It was full of fun ideas to celebrate the season.  The kids made paper bag pumpkins.

We were very fortunate that one of the grandparents donated a pumpkin for each child in the class.  They loved decorating them with googly eyes, stickers, and paper shapes.  

 We made orange ooblek using corn starch, water, and food coloring.  Each child got a decorated baby food jar filled with the slime to take home.  

We've been doing lots of pumpkin crafts, like painting pumpkins, making pumpkin life cycle pictures, and making Halloween scenes with foam shapes.  In addition to all the crafts the kids have also played pin the patch on the scarecrow, and read tons of themed books.  They've investigated pumpkin seeds, and even got to taste some.  They've had a pretty fun week, and I can't wait to see all their costumes on Tuesday.

Let's Celebrate Fall

This month Mother Goose Time included a pumpkin patch celebration kit with October's monthly box.  It had so many fun ideas in it, that after 3 hours of crafts, games and songs we still didn't finish everything.

The girls painted paper bags orange.  While they were drying we played games and had a snack.  Once they were dry the girls stuffed them with crinkled scrap paper and added faces and leaves. They had so much fun making these.  Addie even made 2 faces, one for the front and one for the back. 

Th girls loved playing pin the patch on the scarecrow.  They took turns rolling a cube and then would tape the matching shape to the scarecrow poster while blindfolded.  This game was a great way for Elli to practice her matching and colors while having lots of fun.

I made jack-o-lantern snacks for the girls.  They ate the cut off edges while I made the faces.  

We carved pumpkins and the girls helped scoop out the insides.  Elli really didn't like getting slimy so she mostly just played with pumpkin seeds.

The girls used pumpkin seeds on the pumpkin counting cards.  Elli worked on counting and matching the numbered cat cards to the correct pumpkins.  Addie worked on adding using the cards and seeds.

The girls also colored their own scarecrow pictures, which matched the pin the tail on the scarecrow game they played earlier.  Mother Goose Time included another celebration kit for November, which looks like it will be even more fun. 

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