Weigh a pumpkin and record its weight. Ask the children to guess the pumpkin's weight after carving it to make a jack-o'-lantern. Let them weigh other things on the scale to guide the guessing. Record all guesses. The child whose guess comes closest to the jack-o'-lantern's actual weight wins a treat. Another game lets the children count pumpkins to place in a pumpkin patch you make from green construction paper. Cut out 10 pumpkins from orange construction paper. Write a number on a small slip of paper. The child counts out the number of pumpkins to correspond to the number written on the paper and places them in the pumpkin patch.
Place two piles of candy corn at one end of the room and two plastic trick-or-treat buckets at the other end. Divide your kindergarten children into two teams. Each child spoons up as much candy corn as she can into a small spoon, places the candy into the bucket at the other end of the room and passes the spoon to the next child on her team. The winning team transfers the candy corn to the bucket first.
Play this game with a mobile chalkboard, colored chalk, sponges and a bucket of water. Draw a witch's head or body on the chalkboard. Place several sponges in a bucket of water. Allow the children to stand where they will be able to hit the chalkboard accurately with a wet sponge. Demonstrate how to squeeze out excess water from the sponge and how to throw it at the drawing. Ask the children to take turns throwing the wet sponges at the witch to melt her. When water collects and drips down the chalkboard, the witch appears to melt.
Halloween music adds fun to this circle game. The children sit in a circle and pass or toss a mini pumpkin while the music plays. The child holding the pumpkin when the music stops leaves the circle. The last child remaining wins the game and keeps the pumpkin. Another circle game uses an apple that children try to pass without using their hands. The children sit in a circle with hands behind their backs. One child places the apple under his chin and attempts to pass it to another child's chin without dropping the apple. Children who drop the apple leave the circle until one child --- the winner --- remains.