Fall/ Halloween

Because we are a Christian center we don't celebrate "halloween" (well actually we do...we just call it Harvest)
We have a harvest party every year and the children and their parents are invited to come.

Throughout the week we talk about Pumpkins a lot and do some pumpkin projects.
We gut a pumpkin in the sensory table...i find it easier to cut the top off myself and then scoop out the insides before hand and put them back inside the pumpkin to make it easier for the children to "gut" with spoons

We also use hammers and golf tees to practice hand eye coordination and make really cool looking designs

The older children go on a field trip to the pumpkin patch this week and we use their pie pumpkins that they get to decorate at our party.
We go to an awesome pumpkin patch that includes: Pumpkin Picking, Hay Ride, Hay Maze, Story Time and Donuts and Cider!!

The younger children who cannot go on field trips yet have their own pumpkin patch outside. We take them for wagon rides and let them pick out their own pumpkins and even have donuts and cider too!

At our party we decorate pie pumpkins

We make slime!
(Cornstarch + Water with green food coloring)

 We play hook the spiders (using straws and those silly little spider rings)

We also play Mr. Pumpkin Head ( i make holes in the pie pumpkins first)