Preschool Halloween Party

We had a relaxed Halloween Party for the kids at Preschool. My first year I felt more stressed about it. There were a few grandparents that I hadn't met until that day and it was one game after the other. I wanted it to be more relaxed where we could have more time in between the activities planned. We had toys out for them to play with. Parents were still invited but most were working, so I only had one show up. 

One of the games we played was "Bop the Ghost". I drew eyes on the balloon and hung it up on our ceiling fan and the kids had a blast bopping it.

My son drew a nice pumpkin for us so we all did Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin.

The kids loved coming in their costumes

We played with Marshmallows and Toothpicks. This wasn't Halloween specific, I just thought it would be fun and tasty.

They painted Witches Hats. 

We made Streamer Ghosts

They finished off with decorating sugar cookies. We all had a great time! 

Happy Halloween!

Spider Week at Preschool

I drew a spider web on white paper and the kids did watercolor paint to see what surprise was on their papers. Idea from here

The younger group made spider hats. They got to cut 8 legs and learn how to bend them. They cut out eyes and glued them on the front. Googly eyes would have been cooler but I didn't have enough. I always love a preschooler in hats. 

Idea from here.

For our Halloween party, the kids got to do marble painting that looks like a spider web. That marble hopped out quite a bit and would roll on the floor, so beware. 

Not pictured, we did crinkle leg spiders for our older group. They learned how to fold back and forth to get that crinkle look. Then the wrote their numbers on each leg. So one leg had a #1 written on each crinkle, the second leg had #2's written on it, ect. I babysat an older child that afternoon, whose sister comes to the preschool, and she wanted to make her own crinkle leg spider after seeing her sisters. 

As always, we have a lot of books from the Library on Spiders for the kids to look through.