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5 Little Pumpkins
Cute for pre-schoolers. Let your kids paint the styrofoam balls orange. Then have the ...
Type: Craft: 8057

5 Little Pumpkins Song/Fingerplay
Cut out a fence with the brown paper and cut out pumpkins with orange paper. Glue the ...
Type: Music/Song: 8537

Bat Bells
Punch a small hole in the bottom of the black cup (easily found at party stores in th ...
Type: Craft: 7466



Bat Pencil
Glue the 3/4" pom pom to the 1" pom pom to make the bat's head and body, cut out win ...
Type: Craft: 7467

Batty Pencils
Glue the pom pom to the eraser of the pencil - push it down well so it is secured. Ta ...
Type: Craft: 8540

Boredom Buster
Put everything in this box and take it out on special occasions. I have a box like th ...
Type: Craft: 7478

Candy Corn Bingo
Program a bingo form with whatever skill is appropriate for your grade level (letters ...
Type: Game: 7968

Candy Corn Estimate Game
Fill a clear jar or container with candy corn. At the party, have each child guess ho ...
Type: Game: 8535

Cat Cookies
Spread the frosting on the cookie. Place the two green M&M's on as the eyes. Place th ...
Type: Recipe: 8301

Cheese Cloth Ghosts
Dip cheese cloth in watered down glue (three parts glue to one part water). Drape cl ...
Type: Craft: 7504

Cheese Pumpkins
Use the scissors to cut one of the pieces of cheese into a large circle. That will b ...
Type: Recipe: 8305

Clay Pot Pumpkin Containers
Paint the pot and the drainage plate pumpkin orange. Take drainage plate turn upside ...
Type: Craft: 7514

Cookie Spiders
split the cookies and put three lengths of red rope licorice across the frosting, let ...
Type: Recipe: 8328

Cool Spider Treats
Frost upside-down cupcakes with COOL WHIP Whipped Topping. Sprinkle with chocolate ...
Type: Recipe: 8329

Ding Dong Spiders
This isn't the healthiest snack, but the kids love to make them as much as the love t ...
Type: Recipe: 8335

Ever-changing Pumpkin Faces
Choose a real pumpkin for the classroom and place it where the children can reach it. ...
Type: Activity: 7167

Eyeball Potion
USING a small ice cream scoop, place 2 scoops whipped topping into each of 10 dessert ...
Type: Recipe: 8350

Finger Ghosts
1. Have each child outline his/her hand with the marker on a white sheet of paper. 2 ...
Type: Craft: 7578

Footprint Bat
Dip a child's foot into the black paint and press onto paper. Then dip the other foo ...
Type: Other: 8167

Fun With Scissors
Give children paper in several colors cut to moderate size for easy handling. Each ch ...
Type: Activity: 7199

Ghost Cookies
Place Nutter Butter cookie on mat. Spread marshmallow creme on the top of the cookie ...
Type: Other: 8170

Ghost cookies 2
Take a Nutter Butter cookie and spread marshmallow cream on the top then add three ch ...
Type: Recipe: 8373

Ghost Footprints!
Paint the bottom of child's foot with white paint, including the toes. Press onto pa ...
Type: Craft: 7610

Ghost Hands
fill clear gloves:first with candy corn (one in each finger,white point to the bottom ...
Type: Craft: 8374

Ghost in the Graveyard
Pour cold milk into large bowl, add pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk two minutes. ...
Type: Recipe: 8375

Ghost Sandwiches
Use a cookie cutter to cut out ghost shapes from white bread, meats and cheeses. Put ...
Type: Recipe: 8376

Ghost Treat
Take kleenex and place over the lolly pop to form a ghost. Cut a piece of yarn long ...
Type: Craft: 7611

Ghosts with a Jingle
Cut a ghost shape in the white foam tray. Punch the eyes in the ghost with a hole pu ...
Type: Craft: 7613

Gluey Ghost Necklace
Squeeze about 2 tablespoons of glue onto a piece of wax paper. Pick the wax paper up ...
Type: Craft: 7621

Halloween Bulletin Board
For our toddler room at a daycare center, we spread spider web over orange paper on a ...
Type: Activity: 7218
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