October Ideas

Owls
Read: The Owl Became the Moon and Up all Night Counting
Felt Board: Using book as prompt, Animals and counting
Craft: Paperbag Owls Puppets

• Paper lunch bags
• Cupcake liners for eye sockets
• Cut-outs: eyes, beak, ears and fringies for chest
• Have child glue all the bits on to create an owl.

Of course, there was lots and lots of Whooooooooo-ing...

Pumpkins
Read: Pumply Dumply Pumpkin by Serfoza and It's Pumpkin Time by Hall
Craft: Paperbag Pumpkins

• Use those paper lunch bags again - stuff with newspaper and bind them with elastic
• Orange paint and sponge brushes
• Green pipe cleaners for vine

Preschool Daze

Squirrels
Read: The Very Busy Squirrel by Tafuri and Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Hills
Song: Gray Squirrel -- have children clap a beat and sing
Craft: Acorn Collage (from my favoritest of favs blog No Time for Flash Cards)

• In advance, cut and paint a bunch of grocery-size paperbag in various shades of brown and cut-out large acorn shapes from cardstock or copypaper.
• Give each child a large piece of bag and have them rip it up into smaller pieces
• Glue pieces onto a acorn shape.



No Time for Flash Cards

Halloween
Read: Clifford's Halloween by Bridwell and Dragon's Halloween by Pilkey
Song/Felt Board: Five Black Bats counting board
Craft: Ghosts from No Time for Flash Cards

• Need orange and black construction paper, two eyes, and mouth cut-out, cotton balls, white tissue paper.
• See the finished product below.
• The kids LOVED all the layers of this craft. Super fun.

No Time for Flash Cards (again!!!)