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Whether your family likes to
trick-or-treat,
carve a pumpkin or just
play dress-ups,
Halloween books are fun. Many children love scary stories. Their hearts beat
faster, their eyes get bigger and the adrenaline pumps, but they know that they
are in control. The book can be closed at any time and the story always ends to
find them safe at home. They know that monsters aren’t real but they can get
that delicious shivery feeling all the same. But, if your child doesn’t like
that spooky feeling, there are lots of fun Halloween stories for them, too. Try
some of these:
Bunting, Eve – Scary, Scary Halloween
Enderly, Judith – Six Creepy Sheep
 Kroll,
Steven – The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
London, Jonathan – Froggy’s Halloween
Pilkey, Dav – The Hallo-Wiener
Silverman, Erica – Big Pumpkin
Williams, Linda – The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Zolotow, Charlotte – A Tiger Called Thomas
Check the library
catalog for these titles and other Halloween favorites.
5
Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting
on a gate,
The first one said, “My, it’s getting late.” (hold up a finger for each pumpkin)
The second one said, “There’s a chill in the air.”
The third one said, “But, we don’t care.”
The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run.”
And the fifth one said, “Its Halloween fun.”
OOOOOOOOOO went the wind.
And OUT went the light. (clap and loudly say out)
And 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
 Bobby
Had a Small Black Cat
(sung to the tune of Mary
Had a Little Lamb)
Bobby had a small black cat,
Small black cat, small black cat.
Bobby had a small black cat,
Its coat was black as coal.
(sing additional verses the same as Mary Had a Little Lamb)
On
Halloween
(Make a jack o’lantern out
of construction paper or a paper plate & glue it to a large craft stick to act
out this poem.)
To scare some folks on Halloween, I’ll tell you what I’ll do.
I’ll hide behind this pumpkin face, and then I’ll holler….. BOO!
Crafts for Preschoolers
Paint your pumpkin instead of
carving it. If you use washable markers the face can be wiped off with a damp
cloth & painted over and over. Or make a pumpkin by covering a roll of toilet
tissue with green tissue paper and add cut out features. Or stuff a bag with
newspaper & add a silly face with paint, markers or cut outs.
Use the library’s
Ellison Dies – bookmark cat, ghost, moon, owl,
pumpkin, pop-up card ghost, several masks, complete list at:
http://www.pclibs.org/ellison_acu.htm
Make coffee filter bats by painting
the filter black & gathering it to clip in the middle with a clothes pin.
Make foot print (or handprint)
ghosts by painting the sole of your child’s foot white and then letting them
step onto dark construction paper. His toes are the bottom of the ghost. (Hold
fingers together if using his hand. Finger tips are the bottom of the ghost.)
Add eyes and a mouth. (Trace around their hands or feet if you would rather not
use paint!)
For more ideas go to:
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/halloween.html
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