Halloween: Day Three

Spooky Bats and Skeletons, Oh My!

Read some Halloween books with bats, skeletons, and other spooky Halloween themes.


Example:
Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans...by Amy Sklanksky
(poems)

Halloween Wish
wish I may,
wish I might

See
a skeleton
tonight,

Walking tall
with bones
of white,

Dancing in
the pale
moonlight.

Wish i may,
wish I might

Have my wish
come true
tonight.

Sing Dem Bones, doing the actions of pointing to the different body parts.

Skeleton Art:
Spooky Skeleton Crafts
(toilet paper roll skeleton, cotton-swab skeleton, pasta skeleton, paper skeleton mobile, and more.)
Pipe Cleaner Skeleton

Make one of these Skeletons and attach the following poem:

Skeleton
Skull
mandible
sternum,
radius
clavicle
fibula.
Ribs
Scapula
pelvis.
Maxilla
humerus
tibia.

Two hundred six bones
make up me.
The same make up you,
but mine you can see!!!


Talk about how each of use has a skeleton under our skin. Make this X-ray craft of the rib cage:


Play:

Mr. Skeleton Where's Your Bone

One child (Mr. Skeleton) stands in the middle of the circle of children with eyes closed. With 24 children, I'd suggest having 3 or 4 Mr. Skeletons at a time in the middle of the circle with 3 or 4 bones passed out. Let the skeletons take turns guessing.

The children chant:

Mr Skeleton where's your bone?
Somebody stole it from your home.
Guess who? Maybe you!
Maybe a ghost from Kalamazoo
Now Mr. Skeleton find your bone!

While they are chanting the leader hands a "bone" (a pencil would work or you could cut a bone shape from cardboard) to one of the children. All the kids put their hands behind their backs and then Mr. Skeleton opens his eyes. He guesses who has the bone (you can either give three guesses and then he has to be Mr. Skeleton again if he guesses wrong or you can let them guess until they succeed). The person who had the bone becomes the new Mr. Skeleton.

BATS:

Show a picture of a bat. Bats are winged mammals that live in caves, sleeping during the day. They come out at night to hunt for food.

The Bat by Amy Sklansky

Upside down
hangs the bat

There's really nothing
wrong with that!

Have children flap wings like bats and move around the room as you chant:

Zip Zap Zoom
Bat flies across the moon.
Bib Bap Boom
Humming a silent tune.
Flip Flap Floom
Bat dives through evening air.
Dip Dap Doom
To land right in your hair!

Bat Art:

B is for Bats

Bat Trapezoid

Hand Print Bat or Here




More Bat Crafts at DLTK


Snacks:
Talk about how some bats eat fruit and nectar. Have pieces of fruit for children to eat, just like bats. Have cups of different types of fruit juice for the nectar.