02/10/2025
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🧛🏽♀️🎃🕷️
swipe through or see below some activity ideas for practitioners and for at home for those who celebrate the spookiest month of the year
Sensory and Science
PUMPKIN INVESTIGATION
🎃exploring inside the pumpkin, scooping out the seeds, feeling the different textures
🎃counting the seeds
🎃testing the seeds to see if they float or sink
POTION LAB
🧪gather jars and fill with various things, such as; baking soda, vinegar, food colouring, glitter and natural items (leaves and herbs) mix and observe the fizzing or colour changing reactions
SHADOW AND LIGHT PLAY
🔦using torches and halloween cut outs (bats, ghosts, pumpkins, witches and
cats, etc) create shadows behind the cut outs onto a wall
Fine Motor and Problem Solving
SPIDER WEB SEARCH
🕸️Use twine, tape or string to stretch across the tuff tray lor tub if you're at home), in a spider web design
🕸️hide spooky and autumnal objects underneath the web shape
🕸️using large tweezers, the children will pick out the objects
PUMPKIN HAMMERING
🎃stick long 'hammerable items into the top of a pumpkin
🎃children can use sticks or wooden spoons / poles to hammer and bang the objects down into the pumpkin
Nature and Creativity
NATURE WANDS
🪄children go on a nature walk and collect as many sticks and autumnal items they can find
🪄then using the sticks and the items, they create their own 'magic wand'
LEAF GHOSTS
👻children go on a leaf hunt, finding the biggest and most ghost like shaped leaves
👻when you're home, together paint the leaves white and add spooky ghost faces
Imaginative Play
SPOOKY STORY BASKET / SPOONS
📖using props or painted wooden spoons to act out some spooky favourites or use the props and spoons to read along with the story
DRESSING UP
🧝🏽♀️the halloween classic - fancy dress! universally fun and can pretend to be whatever you like, spooky or not
