Our last post touched on how we pull a group of children together to make a community. Well, last week we were lucky enough to unite under the banner of Halloween!
We surprised the Frogs with a classroom-gone-batty.
Our loft was transformed into a 'Bat cave' using mosquito netting recycled from our now defunct playground gazebo. The Frogs took turns spatter painting the netting earlier in the week, then we teachers hot glued fabric bats all over it. We also used some recycled TP tubes that the Frogs had painted black to make a garland of flying bats to string across the classroom ceiling.
We had a variety of pumpkin related projects available. The Frogs used paint sticks to embellish our smaller pumpkins, and we opened up a couple of our larger ones, just to see what was inside. Squishing around in pumpkin guts proved to be less enticing than it sounds, once the Frogs heard about what was across the hallway...
CHICKENS!!!!!
...Chickens with a thing for toy vehicles, no less!
One of the families in the Polliwog room surprised the kids with a visit from three of their super tolerant, (and very well house-trained) pet chickens!!! Man, there's no topping live farm animals for party entertainment!!!
After the chickens packed up and headed back to their coop, we got ready for snack. Of course, it is a long standing Frog room tradition to make the kids really work for their snacks on Halloween! First, they had to break their pretzels out of a bat-shaped pinata, then they had to go on a treasure hunt around the community room in search of apples. All in all, the day was a great success!
And now, we will leave you with a couple of before and after videos of our Halloween sensory table project.
Here's the Before;
...and here's the After;
Enjoy!
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