Tot School Halloween Party

Today was our Halloween party and the kids looked so cute in their costumes!

"I found it!"

 We played “Find Your Pumpkin” for name recognition and the kids were so excited about the pumpkin hunt that they just grabbed the first pumpkin they came upon without even looking at the names. We had fun hiding them again and finding them.

I was curious about what the girls were staring at as they sat in the wagon.  Apparently they found an earthworm during their pumpkin hunt!

Our arts and craft activities today were an egg carton spider, paper plate pumpkin mask, and paper bag scarecrow.

We sang the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” song, “Ten Little Scarecrows”, and listened to a CD of silly songs.

For snack we enjoyed apple cider, pumpkin muffins, and mummy dogs.

Our stories today were "Halloween Day",  "Harriet's Halloween Candy", and "10 Trick or Treaters: A Halloween Counting Book".

#7 Pink Pp

Oh the girly fun we had today!  We had just two little ladies and we enjoyed an awesome pink princess party! 

  We sang songs about the color pink and the number 7 and read “Pinkalicious”, “Milo Armadillo”, and “Double Pink”.  The girls got to play with tents and pillows and we boogied to Lauri Berkner’s songs “I’m Gonna Catch You” and “We are the Dinosaurs”.   

We made pink princess tiaras with sparkle glue, a pink toilet paper roll pig, and practiced counting while we glued seven puffy pearls into their shells.  For snack the girls enjoyed pink gogurt, strawberry milk, and pink cookies.   

 

Finally, the girls enjoyed some free play with the Little people schoolset.

#6 Purple Ee

Today the kids built towers with Lego blocks.  They did a great job sharing and both earned stickers as a reward.  They built a tower together then decided to each work on their own masterpieces.

Then they decided to have a dance party with their bears.  Don't they look adorable cuddled up in the chair?

For snack we had purple pudding, grape jello, purple grapes, grape jelly on toast, purple eggs, and grape juice to go with our color theme.  For our table time they painted six purple eggs and we learned about position/place by putting the eggs in, on, under, and above the basket. We colored a page with letter E words and practiced drawing lines to trace the letter E.    Our books today were “Harold and the Purple Crayon”, “Purplicious”,“Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse”, and “Six Sleepy Sheep”.  The kids enjoyed rolling some fun shapes out of purple playdough.


We went outside to enjoy the beautiful weather and they painted the wall with water, played with the sand table, mower, rocking horse and slide.

#5 Orange Ff

We had to cancel last week because so many of our kids were sick.  Then two of our little ones were out of town on vacation this week so we just had two kids for tot school today.  It was a small class, but this week was super fun, so that made up for it!  We started with lacing beads and laminated cutouts and made necklaces.  One toddler (yes, it was my child) had to have a time out because she threw a bead which hit her friend.  It was a rough start, but things got much better after that.  We sorted the beads by color and stacked them on straws.   

  Then we moved on to our arts and crafts activities.  We counted five paper goldfish and glued them into a fishbowl on an orange paper.  Then we did a coloring sheet for the letter F and named several things that started with F.  Last we cut out our Bible verse for the day: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16.  We taped the verse together and this was the first time it was taller than the kids.  They had some giggles over the giant verse.  It was cute.   

  Snacks were next and they were a fun variety of orange edibles:  orange bell pepper, cheddar cheese, baby carrots, goldfish crackers, and orange juice.  We started singing “Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree” and doing the hand motions while we were at the table after snacktime.  The kids loved it when the “crocodile” tried to “snap” their fingers.

  We sat on the couch to read some fun stories today and the kids enjoyed them so much they wanted to read them again, along with some other alphabet books we hadn't read yet.  Our stories were “Five Little Monkeys” by Eileen Christelow, “Orange Pear Apple Bear” by Emily Gravett, “My F Soundbox” by Jane Belk Moncure, and “Mathilda and the Orange Balloon” by Randall De Seve. It was a wonderful day!