Hello everyone I am new to the site so bare with me. I am room mother this year for my son who is in the 1st grade and I need help on what to do. Such as games, the school dosent want candy so I have to find an alternaticve method. This is for halloween and valintines. Main focus is Halloween right now any advice that some one can give that would be greatly appreciated. C.
I am also a room mother for the 1st time . in my daughters class we are going to play "hot pumpkin" we are going to use one of the little pumpkins and pass it around just like hot potato.
family fun.com is a great place to find ideas.
Hey C.! I used to plan activities on a daily basis at a preschool and loved creative activities. How about cutting out bats from black construction paper,give them some googly eyes to glue on there,glitter, anything really to personalize it, and have them hang it in the classroom. Or pumpkin cutouts with triangles for the eyes or any shape really and have them decorate that,a witches hat, you can go onto the computer and just google halloween activities for children. I hope you have fun! Also, try Kraftfoods.com they have a lot of recipes for halloween goodies that might be fun for the kids to brew up!
try oriental trading company
Well, there is alwaysthe famous pumpkin painting contest, or the bobbing for apples, maybe even scare crows out of hey??
Not sure about Valentines, I will have to get back to you on that one!!
For Halloween you could make Apple Jack necklaces. Apple Jacks are orange and green and if you let the kids string them together they get a cool treat and a craft.
Hello! I love being a room mom and I have been for 3 years with both of my children, 7 and 5 yr old. We have played some really fun games and they are pretty easy to prepare. I found all of my games online; you just have to look through a bunch of sites to find the good ones.
First game is a ring toss. Sounds silly, but depending on the age it can be so exciting. You take empty soda 2 liter bottles and take the label off, I used 3. I printed out a Halloween pictures, (ghost, witch, Frankenstein...whatever you want.) I colored the pictures, and glued them on the bottles with spray adhesive. I filled the bottles with water so they would stand up and taped a line on the floor for kids to stand behind. The kids tried to "ring a monster" with a plain wooden embroidery hoop, and it is so fun!
You can also use these liter bottles empty and do a pumpkin bowling. Use 5-6 2-liter bottles though and use a little pumpkin as a bowling ball. It can't go very fast (and explode) because it's little and it's fun to watch because it doesn't go straight. I've never laughed so hard watching my daughter, and the rest of her class trying to "will" the pumpkin to go in a straight line.
Other games like pin the nose on the pumpkin, (or any other variation like a witch and a hat, etc.) Halloween bingo, monster mash "dance and freeze", and a bean bag toss into trick or treat buckets can be fun. We have also decorated goodie bags, made a ghost windsock or play-doh spider for crafts. As for "treats" goodies like straws, pencils or things like that are fun. You can get clear plastic gloves and put a hot tamale or candy corn in the end of the fingers and fill the rest with popcorn. It's called a witches hand. Please feel free to e-mail me if you need any more details about a specific game or craft. I hope this gives you some ideas! Have fun!!
you should definitely do a quick search online for halloween activities. there are tons of fun crafts that get the kids involved and they will have something to take home with them when done with it.
and like the other mom said, check the dollar store for fun cheap prizes. also walmart. my son is having a halloween birthday and i found things like stickers, finger puppets, and other goodies in the walmart halloween party section. also if you want to give something edible but no candy, what about animal crackers or pretzels? i also found those in small packages made for trick or treating.
Hi C.,
I am a preschool teacher and for Halloween for my students im not big on the candy thing either so I went to the dollar store or another good place is Oriental Trading Co and got some small toys like yo-yos, balls, stickers, tatoos, as well and pencils things like that. Im still going to give them alittle candy but atleast not the overlaod that the kids usually get at this time of year. As for games just try looking online you can find tons of games and activities to do for the holidays. Hope this helps!
Welcome! One of my faves for Halloween is freezing a non powdered latex glove filled with water or punch, juice. Peel the glove away and put it in a bowl of punch. The fingers usually break off and you have ice cubes! Frozen grapes are an odd taste and texture. Pin the nose on the pumkin is always fun for the little guys! make up ribbons for the best/most creative/fancy costume and let the kids vote on classmates' dress. Roasted pumpkins seeds are a great snack for fall. Let them take turns in telling the class a scarey story, true or made up.
I have a good suggestion for halloween. If you have any clip art and computer make up a Halloween Bingo Game. Write Spook at the top and past pictures in the body of the game. Then make the cards like S-Pumpkin and so on. It's kind of an easy game and fun for that age group. You are doing a good thing. Keep it up.
Well I found these cute little crafty things at wal-mart for about 6 bucs? it makes like 30 each bats, pumkins, ghosts, or candy corns. They are fun to make with the kids and the kids love em!!
I think anything crafty will be fun in general and maybe you can get some paper bags and make them into costumes...just have the kids paint them or glue things on them and but out a hole for the head and two for the arms...those are fun too!
I have cute eyeball erasers and also plastic rings are fun AND SUGAR FREE!!!
at my son's school we always do a craft like getting the little pumpkins (donated by a local grocery store!) and decorating them with foam shapes, glitter, paint, etc. and then at valentines we decorate valentines for mom and/or dad. i usually get packages of the white paper doylies (spelling?) which are really cheap to buy and red and pink construction paper from the copy room and let the kids use that and the glitter, paint and foam shapes from before to decorate. we also play bingo with orange/black jellybeans or sweethearts (i know candy but we ask them not to eat it since they're using it for bingo and they usually listen!) but let the winners have prizes like pencils, stretchy toys, bouncy balls, etc. themed with the holiday. good luck!
Instead of giving out candy you can go to SAMS/Costco and get the huge bag of Playdough. All the kids loved getting that, and didn't miss the candy at all. I also try to find cute little toys, stickers or holiday pencils that the kids will like. It's also pretty inexpensive, so that is a bonus! As far as games go there are so many to chose from, you can try this website http://www.childfun.com/modules.php?name=News&file=ar...
They have a ton of ideas that I think would be a ton of fun. Happy Halloween!
