Halloween Fun!

Halloween is always such a fun and playful time of year.  We had a blast with all kinds of games and activities.  Spiders were on the loose in our web basket and sticky spider web with black pom-poms.  We played ghost bowling, found ghost eyeballs (craft google eyes) in flubber, and matched monster eye ball colors to the colored monsters (more google eyes).  We rolled a color dice to help the witch find her hats and worked together to put the tops back on the number candy corn.  The sensory table had Halloween creatures frozen in ice cubes and frozen hands floating in the water.  The hands were made by filling up rubber gloves with colored water and freezing them.  The kids were amazed at how the ice melted and changed the color of the water!  We made monster faces to go along with our story, Go Away Big Green Monster!.

The pumpkin gameboard was a hit with our PM kids.  They rolled an orange dice with pumpkins on it instead of black dots.  Gym was a laughing, giggly time using orange balloons.  The goal was to try and keep them in the air as much as you could.  We also used our parachute to bounce them up and down.  Some went flying, some stuck to the parachute with static electricity.  We acted out our BIG PUMPKIN story by wearing the creature hats.

One of Mrs. D's favorite days before Halloween is our bubbling and fizzing experiments.  There were two tables.  One table was our frothing pumpkin and balloon ghosts.  Inside the pumpkin, we put baking soda, green food coloring, and some dish soap.  Then we added vinegar, and "voila", bubbles flowed out of our pumpkin's mouth!  For the ghost, we put vinegar in the bottom of a 1 liter soda bottle.  Then we put some baking soda into a white balloon (with a ghost face drawn on it) using a funnel and attached it to the soda bottle.  When you lift the balloon up, the baking soda falls into the vinegar.  The reaction of the baking soda and vinegar make bubbles filled with gas.  The air has no where to go, so it fills up the balloon.  The best part...taking the balloon off the soda bottle and letting him fly!!!

At the Witch's Brew table, kids put spoonfuls of baking soda into their little cauldrons from the big cauldron and added a little bit of dish soap (to make it really frothy).  The kids then got to use eye droppers filled with green colored vinegar to their mixture.  You should have heard the squeals of excitement as their cauldron's bubbled over!

Our Halloween Party Day!

We played lots of games in Mrs. D & Ms. McGregor's classrooms.  We thank the families that helped us keep them busy!!  Then we went Trick-or-Treating over in the big Ripley building to get treats from the administrative staff!  Mrs. D was dressed as a Chicka Boom tree and Mrs. Hill was a clown.