Spiders and Bats, Oh My!

We've been reading all about Halloween and some of the spooky decorations that are put up as part of the celebrating the holiday.

Today we decided to made some spooky spiders and batty bats.

We took a plate and a coffee filter that Kyle painted purple to make the spider. After cutting the coffee filter into a body, we cut legs out of the plate. We glued the legs on the body and drew eyes onto the head.



Our bat:
Kyle painted a piece of paper with brown paint. I cut out a head and a body from that paper and Kyle glued them onto another piece of construction paper. We also made brown handprints and cut those out for the wings.

Pumpkins

Read 5 Little Pumpkins or do the fingerplay:

5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The 1st one said, "Oh, my! It's getting late!"
The 2nd one said, "I'm ready for some fun."
The 3rd one said, "Let's run and run and run."
The 4th one said, "There are witches in the air."
The 5th one said, "But, we don't care!"
Then, WHOOOOOOSH went the wind, and out went the light.
And 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Use plates or coffee filters or paper from the fall colors painting activity to make pumpkins. Cut out circles and green stems. Glue on the stems. We made 5 pumpkins to go along with the fingerplay.


Paper Bag Pumpkins: Paint brown paper sacks orange; let dry. Cut a few inches off the top and stuff with paper scraps. Gather top and tie with green pipe cleaner. Draw on a jack-o'-lantern face, if desired. Add to your pumpkin patch.

Fall Colors

Read a book about fall and how the leaves on the trees start to change colors and fall off the branches.

Talk about some of the colors we start to see in the fall.

Mix paints to make these colors--red + yellow = orange, throw in some brown, too. (We are starting to run out of paint colors, so Kyle just HAD to use some blue, white, and purple after we made our fall colors.)




Many of these items we painted on can be used for other autumnal crafts!

Airplanes: Day Five

Field Trip

If your area has a air and space museum, visit it. Plan to attend an air show and try to tour historic planes. Travel to your nearest airport...preferably a small one...and watch the planes land and take-off. If you can, meet a pilot and tour his plane. Or, find a hot air balloon festival to attend.