EHS Halloween (Safety and Nutrition)

Changes to Environment   

Plastic Trick or Treat Buckets

Flashlight

Reflectors

Dress-Up Clothes, Shoes and Hats

Age Appropriate Costumes, Masks, etc.

Witches Hat

Black Cat Stuffed Animal

Plastic Pumpkins

Orange, Green and/or Black Paper, Paint, Playdough, Felt, etc.

Pumpkin Stamps

Cat Stamps

Child Size Broom

Pumpkin Cookie Cutters

Cat Cookie Cutters

Colorful plastic spiders

Orange, green, and black scrap material, large pom poms, markers, crayons, etc.

Halloween cupcake liners

Halloween plates

Plastic bottles with black or orange water and Halloween confetti (be sure to seal shut)

Water Table: orange water, plastic pumpkins, plastic spiders, etc.

Sensory Table: black sand, green, black, orange crinkle paper, plastic pumpkins, plastic spiders, etc.

Teaching Concepts for Indoor Experiences

​1. Practice Pedestrian Safety (hold guardians hand, stay close, look both ways before crossing the street, wear reflectors, carry flashlight, etc.)

2. Dress up in costumes and pretend play

3. Lay on the floor and have friends line up plastic pumpkins beside you to see how many pumpkins tall you are.

4. Costume graph.

Teaching Concepts for Small Group

1.  Look at pictures of healthy foods and non healthy foods, sort them

2.  Dress up in costumes and pretend play

3.  Glue a face on a pumpkin cut out 

4.  String art (supervised activity, yarn no longer than 12in, dip in paint and use on paper), glue spider on “web” after paint dries

5.  Sort colorful spiders

6.  Glue white pieces of tissue paper on toilet paper roll to make a mummy

7.  Collage of healthy foods and non healthy foods, draw line to divide the two

8.  Glue orange scrap material on a pre-cut construction paper pumpkin

9.  Glue black strips of paper on a black circle of paper to make spider

10.  Paint or color(with markers) puzzle pieces different colors then place sticker eyes on to make a monster 

11. Tape the mummy. (using a pre-cut outline of a body allow children to use strips of masking tape and place on pre-cut body, add eyes when finished-EHS cannot use googly eyes)

Teaching Concepts for Outdoor Experiences

1. Play hide and seek

2. Witches hat ring toss (place however many small witches hats you want on the ground and let children try to get the rings around the hats)

3. Ring Around the Pumpkins (tune: Ring Around the Rosies)

Ring around the pumpkins

Pocket full of spiders

Boo! Boo!

We all fall down!

The ghosts are in the meadow

Drinking witches brew

Boo! Boo!

We all stand up!

4. Pumpkin Bowling (make bottles that look like ghosts using a white bottle, milk jug, etc. and glue on a ghost face that isn’t scary. Use a plastic pumpkin to knock the ghost bottles over)

5. Pumpkin toss (toss plastic pumpkins in a basket)

6. Jump over broom

7. Crawl to witches hat and put on head

Teaching Concepts for Music Movement Wellness IMIL

1. Horns and Fangs (tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes)

Horns and fangs,

Knees and claws, knees and claws.

Horns and fangs,

Knees and claws, knees and claws.

Eyes and ears and tail and paws.

Horns and fangs,

Knees and claws, knees and claws.

2. Have You Seen the Ghost of Tom?

Have you seen the Ghost of Tom?

Long white bones with no skin on.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh…

Wouldn’t it be chilly with no skin on? (put arms around self)

Have you seen the Ghost of Tom?

Long white bones with the skin all gone?

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh…poor Tom!

Wouldn’t it be chilly with no skin on? (put arms around self)

3. Once I Had A Pumpkin (tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie)

Oh, once I had a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,

Oh, once I had a pumpkin with no face at all.

With no eyes and no nose and no mouth and no teeth,

Oh, once I had a pumpkin with no face at all.

So I made a jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern,

So I made a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face.

With big eyes and a big nose and a big mouth and big teeth,

So I made a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face

4. Sometimes I like to Walk in the Dark (tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)

Sometimes I like to walk in the dark

I like to shout and scream.

I sneak behind somebody I know

Boo! It’s Halloween

5. The Pumpkins are Here  (tune: The Farmer in the Dell).

The pumpkins are here, the pumpkins are there. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are everywhere.

The pumpkins are up; the pumpkins are down. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all around.

The pumpkins are in; the pumpkins are out. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all about.

The pumpkins are low; the pumpkins are high. The pumpkins, the pumpkins all say, “Good-bye”.

(could hold a plastic pumpkin to do the movements with)

6.The witch has an Itch (tune: Farmer in the Dell)

The witch has an itch, The witch has an itch.

Oh where, oh where, oh where does the witch have an itch?

On her tiny little ____, her tiny little ____,

The witch has an itch on her tiny little _____.

(Children fill in body parts like toe, nose, etc.)

7.Boiling Hot!

Boiling hot, boiling hot  (Stir “witch’s soup”)

What will we put in the witch’s pot?

Boiling hot, boiling hot

We’ll put some spiders* in the witch’s pot  (Toss something imaginary in the pretend pot)

* stinky socks, hair, muddy boots, etc. children will be happy to provide suggestions to add to this ghoulish recipe

8. If You’re A Monster

If you’re a monster and you know it, wave your arms,

If you’re a monster and you know it, wave your arms,

If you’re a monster and you know it,

Then your arms will surely show it, *

If you’re a monster and you know it, wave your arms

If you’re a monster and you know it, show your fangs…

If you’re a monster and you know it, stomp your feet…

If you’re a monster and you know it, show your claws…

If you’re a monster and you know it, growl out loud…

9. Bats Are Sleeping (tune: Frere Jacque)

Bats are sleeping. Bats are sleeping.

Upside down, upside down

Waiting for the night to come, waiting for the night to come,

Then they fly around, then they fly around.

10. The Hooky Spooky (tune: The Hokey Pokey)

You put your head in, you put your head out.

You put your head in, and you shake it all about.

You do the hooky spooky & you give a little shout,

That’s what it’s all about.  Booo!

11. Happy Halloween (tune: Oh, My Darling)

Have a happy, have a happy,

have a happy Halloween.

Trick or Treat some, then we’ll eat some

Have a happy Halloween.

Ring the front door, please don’t ask more

Use your manners, say thank you.

Have a happy, have a happy

Have a happy Halloween.

Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays

1. Five Little Goblins

Five little goblins on a Halloween night,

Made a very, very spooky sight.

First one danced on his tippy-tip-toes.

The next one tumbled and bumped his nose.

The next one jumped high up high in the air.

The next one walked like a fuzzy bear.

The next one sang a Halloween song.

Five little goblins played the whole night long!

2. Ten Little Pumpkins

Ten little pumpkins, standing in a row (hold up fingers)

They bow their heads to the children so (bend fingers)

They run to the left, they run to the right (move fingers in each direction)

Then they close their eyes and say goodnight. (put hands together and rest head on them)

Ten little pumpkins sitting in a row.

When they see the moonlight, they wiggle just so.

They wiggle to the left, they wiggle to the right.

Then they close their vines and say night-night!

3. Three Little Witches

One little, two little, three little witches. (Hold up 1,2,3 fingers)

Fly over haystacks, fly over ditches. (Make flying motion with hands)

Fly over moonbeams without any hitches. (Make flying motion with opposite hand.)

Hey, Ho, Halloween Night! (Clap)

One little, two little, three little witches. (Hold up 1,2,3 fingers)

Fly over barb wire and tore there britches. (Make flying motion with one hand, then turn and show your “torn britches”)

Had to go home and get some stitches. (Pretend to sew)

Hey, Ho, Halloween Night! (Clap)

4. Five Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate, (show 5 fingers)

The first one said, (1 finger)

“Oh, my, it’s getting late.” (hands on cheeks)

The second one said, (2 fingers)

“There are witches in the air.” (point up and look up)

The third one said, (3 fingers)

“But we don’t care.” (wag pointer finger)

The fourth one said, (4 fingers)

“Let’s run and run and run.” (move arms like you’re running)

The fifth one said, (5 fingers)

“I’m ready for some fun.” (punch up w/both fists)

“Whooo!” went the wind,

and out went the light, (clap on “out”)

And the five little pumpkins (5 fingers)

rolled out of sight. (roll arms)

5. 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Pumpkins

1 little, 2 little, 3 little pumpkins,

4 little, 5 little, 6 little pumpkins,

7 little, 8 little, 9 little pumpkins,

All for Halloween night.

Let’s get Dad to carve the pumpkin.

Let’s get Mom to carve the pumpkin.

Let’s all go to carve the pumpkin,

All for Halloween night.

Don’t eat the seeds until we cook them.

Don’t eat the seeds until we cook them.

Don’t eat the seeds until we cook them.

Then they’ll taste just right.

Here come the trick-or-treaters

all dressed up now.

Here come the trick-or-treaters

all dressed up now.

Here come the trick-or-treaters

all dressed up now.

Yes, it’s Halloween night!

6. Five Hairy Monsters

Five hairy monsters jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head!

Called for the doctor and the doctor said,

“No more monsters jumping on the bed.”

So on and so forth with..

Four hairy monsters…

Three hairy monsters…

Two hairy monsters…

One hairy monster…

No more monsters jumping on the bed!