A Halloween Party without Candy???

A Halloween Party without Candy???

 

Last night, my friend and I put together a Halloween Party for our children that emphasized games instead of candy!

It was a HUGE success!

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Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Pumpkins

Finger Play Fun Day:  5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence



 

Halloween is on its way!

Today is Finger Play Fun Day and we will be sharing 5 Little Pumpkins.

 

My students have been enjoying this finger play all month long.  I made 5 jack-o-lantern finger puppets to add to the fun!

 

There are different variations for this finger play but here is my favorite!

 



Here are the words I like the best:

5 Little Pumpkins

5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "Oh my its getting late."
The second one said, "I hear a noise."
The third one said, "It's only some boys."
The fourth one said, "Let's run. Let's run."
The fifth one said, It's Halloween fun."

Then oooooo went the wind and out went the lights.
And away rolled the pumpkins on Halloween night.





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Carolyn, at Wise Owl Factory, made an awesome skip counting Power Point with Pumpkins!  Count by ones, twos, threes, fives,
and tens!  The children might watch silently the first time through and then count aloud while watching the second time!

Free Power Point Skip Counting


Happy Halloween!

Finger Play Fun Day: The Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Great Big Hairy Spider

We Sing About a Variety of Spiders in the Popular Children's Song

 

We are continuing with our Halloween theme this month for Finger Play Fun Day.  Today's song is the very popular children's song - The Itsy Bitsy Spider.  But in our version, a few other spiders come to visit too.

We have the Great Big Hairy Spider,

the Very Fast Spider and

the Very Slow Spider!

Children enjoy songs that they know but with a little twist.  These variations help develop a bigger vocabulary, including opposites such as fast and slow, itsy bitsy and great big.  I encourage you to be creative and make your own pairs of opposites!



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Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory, has made a Free Itsy Bitsy Spider printable plus a great book review and worksheets to go with Gail Gibbon's book Spiders.

This book has a lot of fascinating facts about spiders that will interest you and your child!

 

Free Printable for The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Free Spider PDF from Wise Owl Factory

 

Free Opposites PDF

Enjoy!

Finger Play Fun Day: Oh Once I Had a Pumpkin!

 

Pumpkin and Jack-o-Lantern Finger Play for Halloween

   

Fall has arrived and Halloween is just around the corner!

Today's finger play "Oh, Once I Had a Pumpkin," is a wonderful song about turning a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern. 

To make the song even more fun, I made a simple pumpkin out of orange felt.  I also cut out 3 black triangles for 2 eyes and a nose and a funny mouth with teeth cut out. 

I have been singing this in all of my classes for the last few weeks and the children love helping me make the jack-o-lantern.  They take turns putting on the eyes, nose and mouth and then laugh at the funny face they made! 

I hope you all enjoy this song!





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Carolyn, from Wise Owl Factory has a great Free Pumpkin Writing PDF with prompts for writing about pumpkins.  Be sure to check them out!  She also made a free power point presentation with the same pumpkin worksheets!

Free Pumpkin Writing PDF

 

 Free Pumpkin Power Point


Happy Halloween!