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Halloween Songs

Did You Ever See a Pumpkin?
(sing to "Did You Ever See a Lassie?")

Did you ever see a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin?
Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all?
With no eyes, and no nose, and no mouth and no teeth(point to each part)
Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all?

So I made a Jack o Lantern, Jack o Lantern, Jack o Lantern.
So I made a Jack o Lantern with a big funny face.
With big eyes, and a big nose, a big mouth and big teeth.
So I made a Jack o Lantern with a big funny face.
** Make a large pumpkin shape and face parts out of felt. While singing the song, use the pieces as a visual aid tool.

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Halloween Surprise
(sing to "Sing a Song of Sixpence")
First you take a pumpkin
Big and round and fat
Then you cut the top off
That will make a hat.
Then you hollow out the nose
and mouth and eyes.
Show it to the children for a Halloween Surprise!

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Five Little Ghosts
Five little ghosts dressed all in white
Were scaring each other on Halloween night.
"Boo" said the first one, "I'll catch you!"
"Wooooo" said the second, "I don't care if you do!"
The third ghost said, "You can't run away from me."
And the fourth one said, "I'll scare everyone I see"
Then the last one said, "I'ts time to disappear.
See you at Halloween time next year!!!"

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Five Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said "My it's getting late"
The second one said "There are witches in the air"
The third one said "We don't care!"
The fourth one said "Let's run and run and run"
The fifth one said "Isn't Halloween fun?"
Then Whoooo(cup hands over mouth when saying this) went the wind
and Out (clap hands once)went the lights
Those five little pumpkins rolled fast out of sight!

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Suggested Reading:
Halloween House by E. Silvermen
Halloween ABC by E. Merriam
Halloween by G. Gibbons
Clifford's Halloween by N. Bridwell
Best Halloween of All by S. Wojciechowski
Aunt Eater's Mystery Halloween by D. Cushman
Arthur's Halloween by M Brown
Wise Owl's Halloween Adventure by R. Kraus
The Halloween Play by Felicia Bond
The Best Halloween Hunt Ever by John Speirs
Pooh's Pumpkin by Isabel Gaines
One Halloween Night by Mark Teague
Whoooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? by Kay Winters
Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach
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Art
Jack-o-Lanterns
Wash out and let dry a gallon milk or water jug with a green cover for each child. Pour orange paint into the jug, replace the cover and let them shake it all up, coating the whole inside. More paint can be added if necessary. Drain any extra. Let dry and decorate the outside with yellow or black foam or paper facial features. (I found that between tempera and Bio-color paints from Discount School Supply, the Bio-colors worked a lot better.) Add green crepe paper and/or green pipe cleaner around the top of the bottle as a vine.

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Witch's Hat
A simple cutting and gluing project for the young ones. Trace several large triangles and rectangles onto black paper with a white crayon. After they each cut out one of each, they can glue it together to make a witch hat.
To add to this, they can also make a broom by cutting out a very narrow black rectangle and a yellow square. Show them how to make "bristles" on the square by cutting almost all the way through from bottom to top. Glue the square onto the long rectangle to make a broom.
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Jack-O-Lanterns
Needed: orange tempera paint, brushes, junk cd's (scratched ones or the free internet ones you get in the mail) black paint, green paper, fish line to hang them. (Or paint only one side and use magnets on the back so they can hang on a fridge)
Have the children paint both sides of the cd with orange paint. Hang to dry. When dry, let them paint another coat if necessary. Paint black facial features onto it and add a green stem. Cute!!!

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Pumpkins

Cut an outline of a pumpkin as shown. Lay on clear contact paper and trim edges. Let the children stick pieces of tissue paper inside their pumpkin. Lay another piece of contact paper on top when finished and again, trim around the edges. These look great hanging in a window.

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Games and Activities

Game for older preschoolers
Cut out several orange pumpkin shapes from construction paper. Before laminating, draw and outline of the eyes, nose and mouth using a light pencil line or a dotted marker line. Cut out black or yellow facial features the exact same as the outlines you drew on the pumpkins. These are the game pieces. Laminate them as well. When ready to play, make a sheet that tells the children if they roll a number 1or a 6, they get a pumpkin, a 2 gets them an eye, a 3 gets them another eye, a 4 gets them a nose, and a 5 gets them a mouth. The child has to roll a 1 or 6 to even start the game. The first one to complete the pumpkin gets a sticker or candy or another small trinket.

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Hide plastic mini spiders and or pumpkins in a sand, rice, or corn table. Or use a plastic wading pool or dishpans if you don't have a commercial water table. The kids love scooping and sifting through the rice to find "treasures". Be sure to keep a small broom and dustpan readily available for them to clean up their own messes.
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Instead of "Doggie, Doggie, Where's your Bone?", play "Spider, Spider, Where's your Web?" Draw a black spider's web on white paper, cut around the outside and laminate for strength. The child that is hiding the web sits on it and the "spider" guesses who has it.
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Scat The Cat Story
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RECIPES

Chocolate Spiders from Yolanda at All Children Great and Small......
We put semi sweet chocolate chips and chow mein noodles(crunchy noodles)in a pot. Melt the chocolate chips then we add the noodles, then place drops of spiders onto a wax paper-covered plate or tray. Let cool in refrigerator.

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