Muffin Tin Monday {Halloween} & October Songs

Happy Halloween!

{this is the pumpkin we carved last night!}

 

Boy, October just flew by us!  This is my far one of my favorite months and I am little sad to see it go!  But, anywhoo--- here are some of the songs we have been singing during the month of October:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last week we had a preschool Halloween Party.  The kids had lots of fun!

* We played with Pumpkin Pie Playdough

*Read: The Little Old Lady who was not Afraid of Anything by: Linda Williams and we acted out the story with our own story props.  Here is a pictures of all the props put together to make the scarecrow.  This is a fun book if you have not read it before!

 

* We played Halloween Bingo- found here

 

*We also played with Monster Eyes!  It is just water balls and google eyes.

It was a GREAT TIME!

 

----MUFFIN TIN MONDAY----

 

The kids flipped after I made this muffin tin (their first time having lunch out of a muffin tin), it was great!

 

From left to right, top to bottom:

* Ghost Dogs:  Hot dogs with holes for eyes and mouth (hard to see)

* Sprinkly oranges: Mandarin oranges with Halloween sprinkles

* Vanilla pudding and Halloween Marshmallows (dessert)

* Witch fingers: carrots

* Macaroni Pumpkins (see the stems I added to make them look like pumpkins… yeah the kids had a hard time seeing them too!  The green stems are small pieces of fruit roll-up.

 

 

And… I just couldn’t resist adding a pick of my cuties digging in our pumpkins!

The doctor will see you now…

I have some kiddlets at my house that LOVE to pretend!  So, to aid in this love, I created some printable props to make a doctor’s office.  We turned our play kitchen sideways, added a waiting room, a patient room and lots of doctor essentials and VOILA- tons of fun!

Here is the wall in our ‘office’.  A skeleton to look at lots of bones, an emergency sign, an eye chart and a certificate for the doctor.

Our waiting room: with a chair for waiting and books for reading.  Look there are doctor signs as well!

While you are in the waiting room, please sign in and tell where you are hurt.

We stocked our office cabinets with lots of essentials.

A prescription pad and patient checklist for the doctor.

An appointment book to manage all those patient appointments!

Look at the writing going on!

Want to create a Pretend Doctor’s Office in your home or classroom? 

Check out my Pretend Play Doctor’s Office Kit

*It is full of all the printables you see here, plus lots of great ideas to make pretending come to life.

Buy at Teacher’s Notebook

SpOoKy sPoOkY Learning Pack

Ok, ok…it’s not really spooky, just lots of fun!  Check out my newest Halloween inspired learning pack {well, really I created the Spooky Learning Pack several years back, but this one has been totally revamped!}

 

   

 

   

 

Want to learn more, or buy your own? Head on over to…

 

Teacher’s Notebook

 

or, if you prefer…

 

Teachers Pay Teachers

 

Thanks for reading :)

 

Halloween Baggie Game- Free!!

What is a Baggie Game anyway?  Well, I created these games to fit in a ziptop baggie.  This way they are easy to store and easy to take along!  The Pumpkin Baggie Games has three games included and a title square to attach to the front of the baggie. 

How do you use these Baggie Games?  Personally, I have used them with my daughter in waiting rooms and at my great-grandma’s house (where there are not many kids toys).  These games would also make an easy preschool or kindergarten center!  What’s even better??? They are free!

 

{click the pic above to download}

 

 

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5 Little Pumpkins Freebie!

Happy October!  Can ya’ll believe it is already Oct. 11???  Where did September go?!  Anywho… I wanted to share a freebie I created last year.  It is the well known Five Little Pumpkins poem with pumpkin props!

 

Enjoy!