Halloween {Ghost} Day

  

• Read “Ghosts in the House!” by Kazuno Kohara
  1. Love this book! This is one of my new favorite Halloween books. Most ghost books are a little creepy, but this one is fun and cute. My kids and I loved the artwork.
  2. A little girl (who is not just a girl, but a witch!) moves into a new house. There are ghosts living there, but she knows just what to do. She simply catches the ghosts, washes them, hangs them on the clothesline to dry and uses them for curtains and blankets and a tablecloth.
• Read “Bedtime for Boo” by Mickie Matheis
  1. Another cute (not creepy) Halloween ghost book. We enjoyed this one.
  2. Little Boo goes out for his first night of haunting and comes home not sleepy one bit. His Mama ghost tells him to listen to the sounds all around until he falls asleep. Cute.

• Cotton Ball Ghost Puppets … I handed these to the kids to play with as we read our stories. They lasted for a little while
  1. Simply poke a wooden skewer into a cotton ball (and fluff up a bit).
  2. Add sticky googly eyes.

• Preschool Journal Page
  1. Practice writing Gg and “Ghost” … my 4-year-old wasn’t in the mood for writing which is fine. I encourage it, but don’t push it. He enjoyed the stickers.
  2. Draw a ghost!
  3. Put ghost stickers all over page

• Invisible Ghost Painting
  1. Use a white crayon to draw Gg and ghosts all over white cardstock.
  2. Use a Do-A-Dot marker to “catch” the ghosts and Gs. 
  3. My kids never get tired of doing these.

 

• Ghost art and narration … I love doing these! They always turn out so cute.
  1. Have the kids retell the story “Ghosts in the House” in their own words.
  2. Type their story word for word and print it out on orange paper.
  3. Have the kids draw a black Halloween scene on the orange paper.
  4. Cut a ghost shape out of vellum. Glue on top of your Halloween scene to look just like the artwork in the book

 

• Make ghost windsocks
  1. Cut out two black circle eyes and an black oval mouth.
  2. Glue to a piece of white cardstock.
  3. Slip the page into a clear page protector.
  4. Cut a white garbage bag into strips.
  5. Tape to the bottom of the ghost face.
  6. Roll into a tube and hang!

• Oreo ghost treats … we’re using our imaginations on these … they were sure yummy! 
  1. Melt white candy melts.
  2. Dip Oreos in the candy melts
  3. Add candy eyes (or two chocolate chip eyes!)
  4. Let dry on wax paper.

Simple Ghost Windsock

We started off G week with Ghost activities to get in the Halloween spirit!

 

• Simple Ghost Windsock
  1. Cut out 2 black circles and 1 black oval.
  2. Glue them to the center of a white piece of paper.
  3. Insert your ghost face into a clear plastic page protector (holes side up)                                                                                   
  4. Cut a white garbage bag into strips (leave folded, cut, then open up).
  5. Tape 5-6 white strips to the back of the ghost.
  6. Roll the page protector into a tube and tape.
  7. Tie string to the holes and hang outside.

(These actually look a little creepy to me. I think I need to work on making a cuter scary ghost face!)

 

• Ghost Streamers
  1. Use those extra garbage bag strips, tie a few together and let the kids run out in the wind!
• Vienna Fingers Ghost Treats
  1. Need 1 pkg. Vienna Finger Cookies, white chocolate melting chips, mini chocolate chips.
  2. Melt your white chocolate (30 seconds in microwave, stir, then 15 sec. intervals, stirring in between until melted.)
  3. Dip cookies in melted white chocolate & lay on wax paper.
  4. Add 2 chocolate chip cookie eyes!

Ghosts

• Make glue ghosts
  1. Draw a simple ghost & put a piece of wax paper on top.
  2. Fill the outline with glue.
  3. Add googly eyes & let dry.
  4. You can peel the glue ghost right up after it dries.
• Make sucker ghosts
  1. Cover a sucker with a piece of tissue paper (or kleenex).
  2. Tie a ribbon around the bottom and add eyes
• Dress up like ghosts
• Go on a ghost hunt
  1. Paint toilet paper tubes white (or roll up white paper).
  2. Cut out 2 ghost shapes & hide them.
  3. Use the TP tubes to make ghost noises (ooooooooohH!) until you find the ghosts

• Make handprint ghosts
  1. Paint your palm & fingers with white paint.
  2. Make a handprint on black paper. Add eyes & a mouth.
• Make ghost windsocks
  1. Cut out 2 circle eyes and 1 circle mouth from black paper (if your preschooler can do it, great!)
  2. Glue the eyes and mouth to the middle of a white piece of paper.
  3. Insert the ghost face into a clear plastic page protector.
  4. Roll it into a tube and tape along the edge to hold a cylinder shape.
  5. Cut a white garbage bag into strips & attach to the bottom of the tube.
  6. Loop a string through the page protector holes and hang it up outside!

• Another Ghost Windsock
  1. Use a white garbage bag.
  2. Stuff crumbled newspaper in one corner and tie off for the head.
  3. Draw a face!
• Invisible Ghost Painting
  1. Draw ghosts on white paper with white crayons.
  2. Let the kids paint with a dark watercolor (or diluted poster paints) and the ghosts will magically appear!

treat idea: Nutter Butter Ghosts

1. Melt a bowl of white chocolate chips
2. Dip Nutter Butter cookies into the white chocolate
3. Lay on wax paper.
4. Add 2 chocolate chip eyes before the white chocolate dries.