Busy Hallowe'en Week

We have had an amazing week at StrongStart. So many more children than normal came in to play.

We spread pumpkin butter on pumpkin pancakes for snack this week.


We carved a pumpkin to check out what was inside.
















Then we made our own pumpkin showing on one side what the innards look like.











We made puffy ghosts using white glue and shaving cream. The paper was folded then opened, a blob of the puffy paint was put on one side then the paper refolded. The children smoothed down the paper (squishing the puffy paint inside). When they opened their paper they saw two ghosts. They added wiggly eyes.



We painted tuna cans to look like jack o'lanterns.








We shaved a pumpkin.












There was lots of hammering
being done to carve another
pumpkin.








Red lentils and black beans in with bats and jack o'lanterns in the sensory table.






And earth worms to find when digging in the sand box.






To top it off we had fun singing "Knock, Knock, Trick or Treat" from Super Simple Songs



Hope everyone has a safe and fun Hallowe'en.

Welcome

Ah my first day of blogging - it's taken me awhile to get started but here I'm ready to go.

I'm hoping to share how I plan and what I plan for my program. Also I'll tell you how it went or didn't go.

So here goes...

For the next couple of weeks we'll be focusing on "what comes from eggs". We didn't have a lot of time to do Easter type crafts or activities (we were busy with being pirates and searching for treasure), so I thought this would be a good way to extend 'egg' activities.

Today for craft we did paper marbling, using shaving cream and food colouring. The kids and parents enjoyed it - although for different reasons. The adults' reasons were obvious - it's messy and they were happy not to do it at home. The children loved the feel of the shaving cream and using the squeegee to take the shaving cream off the paper. Both adult and child alike appreciated how the paper eggs looked when they were done.

Materials you'll need are:

a tray to spread the shaving cream on
food colouring
eye droppers
something to stir the colour (we used a fork)
squeegee
paper



1. Spray shaving cream into small tray.

2. Use eye dropper to sprinkle the food colour on top.

3. Place your paper shape on the tray.

4. Gently push down on the paper. You'll see the dye stain the paper.

5. Lift the paper away from the shaving cream.

6. Place on to another tray (makes clean up easier), shaving cream side up.

7. Use squeegee to scrape all the shaving cream off the paper.

You'll be left with a beautiful marble-like design.
This craft is definitely a hit and we have a whole bulletin board full of marbled eggs to show for it.