Spooktacular October activities!!!
It's Fall....and it's still 100* here in sunny Southern California. It's hard to get into the season when it still feels like Summer all the way into October, but I am determined to make it feel like fall! I bought some pumpkin spice febreeze, got out the decorations and of course made a trip to the dollar tree to get some fun items for our fall activities!
So I like to go to the dollar tree and see what everyday items I can use in an unconventional way. This trip the cashier scanned chopping mats and she said, "Oh, have you used these? How do they hold up after cutting?" I said, "I'm not sure, I use them as playdough mats, they work GREAT for that!" She looked at me strange. I smiled, little did she know she made my day and I succeeded in my mission.This trip this is what I found and what I used them for:
2 chopping mats for $1 I use these as playdough mats!!! (I use these in my preschool class as well) |
These pumpkin decorating kits are all over the place during the Halloween season, they are essentially Mr. Potato head pieces that you put into a pumpkin to decorate them.....anywhoo...they were a dollar so I grabbed a bunch of different sets (pirate, cat, witch, Frankenstein) I bought these to play with our home made pumpkin spice playdough.
So now I have the playdough mats and fun decorating kits....so now onto the BEST playdough you can ever make!
1 cup flour
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 Tbls. vegetable oil
food coloring
pumpkin spice (optional)
for neon food coloring 8 green + 4 pink = orange |
This was my playdough invitation in my classroom. |
I also found this insta-snow at the dollar tree, my mind started spinning and I thought it would be fun in the sensory bin with plastic spiders.
We made the insta-snow and then added a lot more water to give it a gooey feel. Then we used food coloring to turn it orange then added a few spider rings I bought at the dollar tree. |
Oh yeah.....AWESOME mad scientist goggles....THE DOLLAR TREE!! |
He loved being a mad scientist! |
Here are a few other things I have been doing in my classroom.
Counting Pumpkins (thanks Ms M.) |
On our magnet boards I simply cut out and laminated a few different faces and a pumpkin. I put magnets on the back and the kiddos have been making fun jack-o-lanterns. |
And of course our beloved water beads!!! I had orange water beads and spider rings in the sensory table last week....fun fun fun!!! |
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