Bring a Halloween theme across the curriculum into English-Language Arts Instruction. During preschool, children are beginning to learn about the sounds that letters make. Teach children about the letter P during this theme. On a sheet of paper, place an uppercase and a lowercase P. Purchase pumpkin seeds from a grocery store, or have kids help you scrape them out of pumpkins and dry them out. Review the letter P with your students, including words that begin with the letter. Using paintbrushes, help your students paint glue onto the letters, following the formation of the letters to practice printing the letters. Have them place the pumpkin seeds on the glue.
Preschool children will have fun learning Halloween-themed math with these two ideas. From construction paper, create a variety of Halloween-related images---for example, ghosts, witches, pumpkins and black cats.
For the first math activity, mix the images together, and place them in a pile in the center of a table. Have children sort through them, placing ghosts in one pile, witches in another and so on. Sorting is an important pre-math skill that children should begin to understand in preschool, and this activity will help them to do so.
Patterning is another important pre-math skill that children should learn during preschool. Have kids make patterns using the same Halloween images you created for the first math activity. Examples of patterns include ghost, witch, ghost; black cat, black cat, pumpkin, black cat, black cat and so on.
This is a fun Halloween art project that children can create with their footprints. Provide students with pieces of black construction paper. Have them place their feet on the construction paper. Use a piece of white chalk to trace their feet on the construction paper. Do this as many times as children would like, creating as few or as many ghosts as they'd like for their pictures. Allow children to use the white chalk to color in their ghosts and add other Halloween-related images. Let them glue googly eyes to their ghosts.
This game will provide your students with some fun Halloween entertainment. From orange felt, cut out a circle and glue it to a piece of oak tag. From black felt, cut out three triangles. To the top of the orange felt circle, glue two of the black triangles so that they resemble eyes. Also from black felt, cut out a jagged jack-o-lantern smile and glue that to the orange circle. One at a time, children will try to place the third black felt triangle---the nose---on to the jack-o-lantern. Place a blindfold on one child at a time, spin him in two circles and point him in the direction of the jack-o-lantern. Children will have fun seeing where they placed the nose.