Collect some acorns and allow preschoolers to paint the bottoms orange and the tops brown. Then help them draw on faces with black markers. You can make a jack-o-lantern from the cups of an egg carton. Cut out two cups and set with bottoms together and tape. Let preschoolers paint them orange, then poke a hole in the top and insert a green chenille stem. Show preschoolers how to curl the stem around their fingers. Cut out eyes, mouth and nose from black tissue paper and glue to a plastic jar. Take torn pieces of orange tissue paper and cover the remainder of the outside of the jar. Place a light-stick inside the jar.
When doing ghost crafts, stick with the cute variety. Make a hanging ghost by making a hole in the bottom of a white trash bag and inserting a hanger. Attach a fishing line or string to hanger to hang the ghost. Draw two ghost faces on white construction paper and staple them to each other over the top of the hanger. Cut strips a few inches apart up the length of the garbage bag up to the hanger. Make glue ghosts. On a dinner plate or plastic paper plate make an outline of a ghost with glue. Then let the child fill in the ghost with a thick layer of glue. Allow child to place two googly eyes on ghost's face. Allow to dry overnight and have an adult remove it from the plastic or plate with a razor edge or knife edge. For extra zing, sprinkle with silver glitter while wet. Punch a hole in the top and put in a string and hang.
Cut out black foam bat wings and bat body. Have the child glue wings to the body and glue on googly eyes or eyes from red or yellow construction paper. Punch a hole, thread a string and hang. For a spider use an egg-carton cups and have the preschoolers paint them black. Poke four holes on each side of the cup and allow the preschoolers to run four black pipe cleaners through the holes, then shape them into spider legs.
1) Halloween charades is played by writing out Halloween-themed objects or characters such as a pumpkin, Dracula, Frankenstein, spiders, and ghosts on slips of paper. Place the slips of paper in a ghost-shaped or pumpkin-shaped paper puppet or similar object for teams to pick from. Play like regular charades.
2) Have a skeleton scavenger hunt. Make a simple skeleton with several large pieces. Make two identical skeletons. Each set of skeleton bones should be hidden in different rooms or different areas. Divide into two teams and let them find the hidden bones and assemble them into a full skeleton at a central location. The first team to complete the skeleton correctly wins.
3) Have a traditional relay race with a Halloween twist. Each team has a broom and a small pumpkin to get over the finish line. Divide into two teams and have children race pushing the pumpkin with the broom, then turning back and passing to the next kid on their team. The first team to have each player get the pumpkin over the finish line wins.