We have been having so much fun with Fall homeschool preschool! This is my favorite time of year so I love to theme it
throughout and fuel our lesson plans. This is what we did for our Ghost Unit...
We started off with bead counting. I found the idea on Pinterest, and it originates from
childcareland.com, however I couldn't find a printable for it, so I made my own.
You're welcome to save it and print it for your own ghost learning fun!
I printed this off then laminated it and hole punched it, wrapping the
pipe cleaner (cut in half) to the side for the beads to be counted on.
We Also did A ghost lace card, which was good timing seeing as that morning
I found her shoes unlaced all the way. Learning to lace came in quite handy.
I used the scraps from my bead counting laminate and cut it to shape,
using sharpie for the face and hole punching the edges.
I got the idea from
makeandtakes.com
Next was ghost bead counting. For this I had picked up some ghost beads last Halloween on clearance
at a local craft store, and cut some black cardstock into quarters, drawing haunted houses with white crayon.
Each haunted house had a numeral written with that number of haunting windows for the ghosts to spook from
After treating on some festive Ghost Peeps, I told the story of The Chocolate Chip Ghost.
I've seen a few different takes on it, but my favorite was the one featured on
sandytoesandpopsicles.com She includes her ADORABLE (FREE) printable,
which I printed and laminated. We had so much fun with the story,
she had to retell the story to her daddy when he came home that night.
We then concluded our school time with a fun Ghost craft. They came out SO cute.
A big thanks to
notimeforflashcards.com for inspiring this spooktacular craft!
You can find the (easy!) full step-by-step tutorial there!
Materials needed: Contact paper, white tissue paper/white streamers, black cardstock,
scissors and we used a black sparkle craft cardboard that has a sticky back (these I was given by a friend)
You could use black cardstock, sticky-backed foam, or even some googley eyes!
This activity was great for practicing to use scissors because you don't
have to be exact with where you're cutting so it helps with getting acquainted and comfortable with using them.
After you're done cutting your scraps, you fill in your ghost cut outs that are secure to the contact paper.
Then it's time for the eyes! I love to see where the eyes end up,
I feel like it gives the craft personality and makes the ghosts come to life.
Here's the finished product!
We had a spooky good time!
We had 3 different types of candy corn and I had them ready in their own little bowls.
Each time that we selected one from a bowl we would then color in the appropriate box with the corresponding color,
then we would proceed to tally. At the very end, we calculated our data, and made conclusions based off of the data,
and tasted the data as well!
Another Fall Math activity we did was a dice game. We rolled the dice and found the corresponding number on the parts of the Jack-o-lantern to put it all together. The Jack-o-lantern that I used is from Alana Lee Designs
Here are some other random activites that we've done this fall and loved:
Sequencing a Jack-o-lantern:
(original printable can be found at Little Gene Green Bean)
Halloween Number Dot:
(Original FREE printable can be found on teachers pay teachers)
Last year I was really upset when I went to get out my Halloween decorations and festivities
only to find that I had misplaced the box that had all of my Halloween story books.
So this year I made sure that it was right where it was supposed to be so that we could enjoy them this time!
(And, of course, I had misplaced the box of goodies I had collected LAST year instead!! ...We'll get it right next year!)
One of the books in our Halloween Library is the Plumply Dumply Pumkin by Mary Serfozo.
I found this adorable activity to go along with this story from iheartcraftythings where they go on a pumpkin hunt around the house (great for a rainy day!) and then once all the pumpkins are collected, they are then sorted into appropriately marked buckets indicating plumply or bumply! Seeing as how she had used a pattern she had gotten out of an old magazine to print out her plumply or bumply pumpkins, I found myself putting together my own printable. Hope it can help make things smoother if you're in a fix for awkwardly bumpy pumpkins.
