Happy Halloween!

We had such a spooktacular Halloween week at Desert Blossom! Monday was all about spiders! We read books and sang songs about spiders, worked together as a group to make a giant spider web and marble painted spider webs! Tuesday we were visited by ghosts! We sang the Five Little Ghosts song with our finger play ghost gloves and finger painted ghosts with homemade puffy paint. Wednesday we read more Halloween themed books, sang Halloween is Coming and painted candy corns with pom poms! Thursday friends came in costume to play spider web alphabet toss, pumpkin bowling, exploding pumpkin cano and mummy wrap! Mummy wrap soon turned into a indoor snowstorm to everyones delight! The Friday group did a little experimenting with candy corns. We put some in the microwave, freezer and in water to see what would happen. Our little scientists made some insightful observations! During interest area time kiddos used play dough to made faces on pumpkins, constructed masking tape mummies at the art table, created potions in the witch's brew and explored the jack-o-lantern swishy bags. Outdoor time allowed for learning through play at the fence chalkboard practicing the letter 'E' and hours of pretend play as puppies, kittens, families and even a few marriages and babies! Friends even found time to get a "haircut", create on the whiteboards and relax in the book nook to listen to a story! What a week!