Left over Halloween Fun?

It's November already!  Where did the time go!  Just wanted to post about some the fun we had this year in October!  I guess I was having too much fun to have time to post about it all!  I guess this post is a bit like leftover Halloween candy.... Hate to see the end of it!  

We learned about bats and discovered some new cool names for bats which we used to make a simple bat poem.  

The children seemed to really enjoy making the bats and did a really good job!

We had fun making these ghost eye trees with our Big Buddy class.  I found the tree idea on the Family Fun craft website.  I added the spider web stuff to make it look misty and some Halloween wire garlands and some foam ghost stickers to make it spooky!  

Our Big Buddy class also helped us make these covers for our Five Little Pumpkin books!  We also made Five Little Pumpkins on a Gate for a snack.  A take off on Ants on a Log!  We used celery sticks for the gate, five carrot rounds for the pumpkins, and Cheez Whiz for the "glue".  We have peanut allergies at our school so the Cheez Whiz is an alternate choice!  

They read their books with their buddies when they were done making the covers!

We also make five little pumpkin puppets on Halloween with the help of our parents. I hot glued the orange pompoms to the gloves beforehand.  The children just had to glue the fence posts to each finger, leaves on the top of the pompoms, and draw a face on the pompoms using a Sharpie.  

We also made the Mummy Dracula cans again this year!  Always a big hit with my students!  

Check out last year's post about how to make these guys!  Lots of fun! 

We have a door decorating contest each year for Halloween!  The children made count up haunted houses which we used for our entry!  Take a look!

They had a really good time decorating their haunted houses to match their count up story.  

We also made this fun quilt using squares and triangles.  You can find the printables for the haunted house and the bat poem in my Halloween Fun package at Teachers Pay Teachers.  It's free! 

Can't remember where I found this idea but would love to thank that person over and over again!  My guys love making this quilt!  

Hope everyone had as much fun on Halloween as we did!  

Mummy Dracula Cans

Halloween is always a favourite of mine!  So many things to do!

One of my favourite things is the Halloween centre activities we do on Halloween Day! I usually try to run four different stations that the children rotate through in the hour.  One of the most popular is the Mummy/Dracula can.  When I first started to do this craft it was just a mummy pencil holder can made out of a tin can wrapped in strips of white fabric with googly eyes.  That was cool but THEN one of my parents came in and showed me how to turn it into a Dracula can!  TOO COOL!

To make the can into a Dracula can you need a piece of string and a little wet scrap of towel.  

You punch a hole in the bottom of the tin can with a nail.  Then you put a piece of string through the hole and tie a knot.  Let the piece of strip dangle down from the bottom of the can!  Take a small scrap of old towel, get it wet, and squeeze out the excess moisture.  Fold the piece of towel around the string, pinch it tightly and     slide the towel down the length of string.  If you are doing it correctly it will make a sound like Dracula laughing!  The quality of the sound changes depending on the size of the can.  Big cans make low sounds and little cans make squeaky sounds.  Needless to say, the children love it.  I make them promise that they will stop making the sounds when their Moms tell them to!  

We also made spider pops, a five little pumpkin glove puppet, and a spider web.  Lots of fun!

We also made these skeletons that we hung from the ceiling!  The children took them home on Halloween to help decorate their houses. Too spooky!