Halloween Crafts and Activities
Count down to Halloween
Halloween Craft
Objectives
Children will learn to count down from 10 - 1.
Materials
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Pumpkin and Halloween characters printouts
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Magnets or Velcro pieces
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Scissors
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Laminating sheets
Directions:
Print pumpkins and Halloween characters on heavy printing paper and cut out. Laminate for extra strength. Attach a small magnet or a small Velcro piece to the pumpkin stem. Place and attach the Halloween pictures in a row on a magnet board or felt board. Cover each Halloween character with a pumpkin in order from 10-1.
Instructions:
Explain to children that you will count down to Halloween with these pumpkins and that behind each pumpkin hides a Halloween character. Each day let one child remove a pumpkin to reveal the Halloween character.
Extension:
Let children make a count down to Halloween booklet. Print booklet pages and tape the strips together. Color the characters and pumpkins and fold the booklet accordion style. Cover each Halloween character with a pumpkin. Attach one staple to the top of each pumpkin so that it can be flipped open or torn off easily.
Other Halloween Printables
Halloween Count Down Printables
Halloween Rhyme
Pumpkins
Author Unknown
Pumpkin large
Pumpkin small
Pumpkin short
Pumpkin tall
Pumpkin yellow
Pumpkin green
All are ready for Halloween!
Use this poem to introduce the concepts of large/small, short/tall, and yellow/green. Create a sentence strip for each line of the poem with an accompanying picture. Make a second set of sentence strips, laminate for extra strength, and cut out words. Let children match the cut-out words to the words in the first set of sentence strips.
