Halloween Party!

  On the 28th and 29th each group had a Halloween Party!  We read "Where's my Mummy?" during Circle Time.  The Tuesday kidlets thought it was pretty funny that the mummy had met all these scary creatures while looking for his mummy, but was scared of mouse!  We learned a new song called "Five Little Pumpkins", and both groups had fun acting out the actions with the song.  We then found some other Halloween songs on Youtube, and spent some time dancing to get rid of all our excess energy that we had.

On Tuesday, we two princesses, a monkey, and Scooby Doo!

We had a lot of Spider-Man's come on Wednesday! The Hulk even came, but didn't want to be in the picture.

       For our craft, the children were able to choose a coloured piece of construction paper and stick foam Halloween stickers on it.  It always amazes me at how different their pictures are!  Some stacked their stickers, some placed them wherever there was room, and one little guy made quite the picture with his stickers!

   After our craft, we got to play with pumpkin guts!  The kids had so much fun squishing the pumpkin inside the bags.  That was, until they squished it so hard, and accidentally popped the bag!  They had quite the surprise on their face to discover pumpkin guts on their hands!

   Next we made a ghost!  We took poured some vinegar into a bottle, then added some baking soda into a white balloon.  Then we put the balloon on the bottle, and dumped the baking soda inside!  The kids had such a hoot!  Both groups wanted to do it 3 times!  On the third time, we wanted to try and blow up the ghost so big that he would pop.  But, instead of popping him we ended up filling him with the baking soda and vinegar foam.  Which was okay, because that meant he was able to hang out around preschool for the remainder of the day.

   The best part of our Halloween Party was the mystery bags!  I had filled brown paper bags with monster teeth (popcorn seeds), witches fingers (carrot sticks), eyeballs (peeled grapes), and brains (cooked speghetti that I even dyed pink for added effect).  The children weren't allowed to look in the bags, they were just told of the gross thing hidden inside and encouraged to reach in and touch it.  The Tuesday group had such fun!  They touched everything, even the brains!  The Wednesday group, not so much.  They touched the monster teeth, witches fingers, and eyeballs.  Jack was the first to touch the eyeballs, and his reaction was full of excitement, grossness, and curiousity!  I wish I had been able to catch it on camera! I don't think he was expecting to touch something slimy inside the bag!  No one wanted to touch the brains though!  Even after I had shown them what the brains really were, they didn't want to touch them!