Pumpkin Themed Activity Trays for Kids

We are halfway through with our pumpkin activities and I'm sharing some of the highlights in this post!  Below are learning activities on pumpkins which are perfect for homeschoolers and those in the classroom.  I made a short description of each activity and added links to the materials that we used for you as reference.  Enjoy!

Halloween Themed Monster Letter and Number Cards

Happy first day of October!!!  I can already smell Halloween in the air!  The boys got their costumes yesterday and they are so excited for Halloween!  Speaking of which, I’m so excited to introduce our Monster Lab Letter and Number Cards. These will be perfect for your Halloween-themed activities for the month of October.  Follow this link and take a look!

Halloween Themed Counting Activities

Are you getting into the Halloween spirit already?  I have some fun counting activities for your kids this Halloween season in case you are celebrating!

Candy Corn Letter and Number Cards

Happy first day of October!!!  I can already smell Halloween in the air!  The boys got their costumes  and are so excited for Halloween!  Speaking of which, I’m so excited to introduce our Candy Corn Letter and Number Cards.  These will be perfect for your Halloween-themed activities for the month of October.  Read on and take a look!

FREE Letter P Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets

We are carving a pumpkin this week so we also worked on our letter P activities!

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin (Preschool Edition)

We are seeing a lot of pumpkins and though we may not be able to visit a pumpkin patch, we brought home a couple of pumpkins for exploration. I would like to share this very beautiful layered puzzle that I purchased in Amazon.  It’s the Life Cycle of a Pumpkin, beautifully crafted and illustrated.  There’s a guide for each layer on the left side so the child will know what comes next.

Halloween Preschool Unit

I’d like to share Vito’s top picks of activities for October.  These are the trays that he would select more often for “play”.    Links to the materials are provided, and feel free to ask questions as well.

Playdough Monster Faces

I managed to create a pitch black playdough and the boys had so much fun making “scary” monster faces with it! 

Introducing the Human Skeleton to Preschoolers

Vito is 34 months old.

It’s that time of the year when my kids get to see a lot of human skeletons hanging everywhere!  No wonder October is the best time to introduce the human skeleton to your kids.  Vito is in the “what’s that” stage and he’s been asking me a lot of questions lately about these “funny” costumes and the hanging bones.  So I gathered a few old and new learning materials for him so I can introduce these amazing body system.

Halloween Themed Early Literacy Preschool Pack

October is such an exciting time for the boys as Halloween is a big celebration here in Ireland.  With this, I am so excited to share with you our Halloween Early Literacy printable pack which we will be using for the entire month of October.  I designed this material specifically for Vito and suitable for ages 2.5 to 4years old.  Come take a look!

HALLOWEEN and THANKSGIVING Learning Materials

Visit my Sellfy store for some fantastic learning materials this Halloween and Thanksgiving season!  Click on the images below for the download link.

Halloween Activities for Toddlers and {Learn & Play Link Up}

Halloween is just around the corner and we’re having the “feel” at home by working on some “halloweeny” activities.  Here’s our working trays for the next few weeks:

TOP:  tonging creep creatures,  scooping black beans into pumpkin bags

MIDDLE:  counting halloween objects using a pumpkin counter, letter matching using alphabet cards (all cards are from HALLOWEEN TODDLER PACK)

BOTTOM:  pouring corn kernels, pumpkin face crafts

Practical Life Activities

Practical life activities are those building and improving skills that are of use in the daily life, like pouring, scooping, transferring etc.  The benefits include hand-eye coordination and concentration.  To know more about practical life activities, visit my post here and here.

Everything that involves the corn kernels and the black beans were a hit!  Both Mavi and Vito played with it for long periods of time and I get to do chores while they’re messing around   To save you a lot of work, always use trays, the bigger the better!

Numbers and Alphabet

As I mentioned earlier, I always integrate a little bit of counting and phonics into our daily activities.  Vito is currently more into counting than the alphabets, so this counting cards that I made for him was a hit!  He loves identifying the objects in the cards and counting them using the pumpkin counters. 

An extra fun phonic game I included is discovering letters from the purse and matching them on the cards.  Similar activity with the Alphabet Sensory Bin except that we’re using a purse this time and used both the upper and lowercase letters.  The wooden letters used here were from Hape Uppercase and Lowercase Puzzle.

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Here are the featured Halloween activities for this week!

 

 

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything from Just Add Speech

Roll a Jack O' Lantern Game from A Little Pinch Perfect

Halloween Craft Pumpkin Mummies from Handson As We Grow

30 Preschool Halloween Crafts from Homeschool Preschool

Pumpkin Suncatcher and Color Mixing from Age of Montessori

 

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FREE Halloween Learning Pack for Toddlers

Our Halloween learning material for toddlers printable is up!  We are using this as of the moment to introduce Vito to Halloween.  Included in the file are:

• Vocabulary words for Halloween
• Upper and lowercase letters
• Number cards for counting activities
• Pumpkin puzzle match

Link here or click the image to download. Enjoy!

Pumpkins!

No, we’re not carving pumpkins this Halloween. First, I don’t have the tools and second, we have no space for them.  So instead we painted pumpkins and stick them on the crystal window of my son as decors!

FREE Halloween Nomenclature and Counting Cards

Hello! To start the week, I'm going to give you FREEbies!

Here are my FREE Halloween Themed Nomenclature Cards... (CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO DOWNLOAD)


... and FREE Halloween Themed Counting Cards (CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO DOWNLOAD) for those who love themed activities!

Pumpkin and Skeleton Nomenclature Cards for Halloween

As promised, here are the additional products that will give your Halloween themed activities more interesting!  Click the images for the links.

The Pumpkin:  11 Parts of the Pumpkin in nomenclature cards and definition booklet.

The Human Skeleton:  16 Parts of the Human Skeleton in nomenclature cards and definition booklet.

Enjoy!

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Bat, Owl and Spider Nomenclature Cards

Happy October 1st everyone!  It's the Halloween month and my son is just too excited for this year's trick or treating!

Have you started doing Halloween themed activities yet?  Well to spice your month, I've come up with these nomenclatures cards perfect for studying these animals that are popular during this time of the year :)  Just click on the images below for the file's link.

The Bat: 14 Parts of the Bat in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

The Owl:  18 Parts of the Owl in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

 

The Spider:  8 Parts of the Spider in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

 

More to come this week:  Human Skeleton and Pumpkin.  Have to visit a Euro shop to get my miniatures :)  Excited!

And for more downloads of learning materials, come and visit The Pinay Homeschooler Shop and Downloads.

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween 2011

Growing up, we never had Halloween celebrations in the Philippines.  And when we moved here, I couldn’t resist not to comply with their traditions.    So to introduce the spirit of Halloween to my son, here’s a few of activities which we did last week.  Promise that I will be more prepared next year.

Making pumpkin faces.  I got the inspiration from here.  Too bad we didn’t have a real pumpkin(out of stock)  it would have been more fun.

         

Numbers and counters and sorting using Halloween foam stickers which I got with a whooping 50% off.

         

Lots of playdoh fun making monsters and this idea comes from Pink and Green Mama.

We also participated in our community’s Haunted Forest Walk which was held  last Sunday (October 30) at MP. It was a family event and the boy was so happy to see lots of kids in costume.  There was a long queue, but the line was moving so after around 15 minutes we entered the haunted forest.

                         

And these are some of the sights my son enjoyed and recognized.

Hansel and Gretel’s bad witch.  Farmers with pumpkin head... when he saw this he shouted “Pumpkin patch!”.

          

The spooky train which he didn’t find spooky at all. In fact he wanted to ride on it.  And the giant eyeball, which he admires!

         

These bird skulls were the only thing that scared him.  Look at how tight he hugged his Daddy!

On the left is a read giant spider with a man’s head.  It crawls down from tree, thus the blurry picture.  On the right is a Snow White’s stepmom mirror.

                        

Then the next day we went Trick or Treat in our neighborhood.  My boy had so much fun! He enjoyed meeting friends and receiving candies from our super nice neighbors. 

                        

We went with these nice girls.  They like Mavi so much.  They kept on laughing at him whenever he says “Happy Halloween” or “Thank You” and telling me that my son is so loud hahaha.

Post ‘trick or treat’ at home. I have to keep most these candies as we’re not allowing him to eat too much sweets.

Indeed a memorable Halloween for my boy.  Till next time!