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OCTOBER
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2

Sing
“Eensy Weensy
Spider”.
(Music/
Dramatics)
3

Make a spider with black play dough and yarn.
(Art)
4

Give your child cardboard shapes to make pictures with.
(Shapes)
5

Give your child old clothes for dress-up.
(Dramatics)
6

Make a blanket tent for your child to play in.
(Imagination)
7

Make banana-pumpkin milkshakes.
(Cooking)
8

Decorate a room with pretend cobwebs for fun.  (Decoration)

9

Columbus Day – Make plastic lid boats for the bathtub.  (Invention)
10

Go for a ride on a bus.  Look for stores.  (Community Awareness)
11

Sing about “The Wheels On The Bus”.
(Music)
12

Look for orange objects in your home.
(Colors)
13

14

Let your child help you gather food for a food bank.
15

Discuss past Halloween’s with your children.  (History)


16

Check out some Halloween books from the library.  (Literacy)
17

18

Pretend to be a cat sneaking around.
(Movement)
19

Tear out ghosts from white paper and add eyes.
(Sm. Muscle Dev.)
20

Let your child
help you sort
the laundry.
(Likes/
Differences)
21

Take your children to a climbing park.
(Lg. Muscle Dev.)
22

Visit a
Pumpkin Patch.
(Science)
23

Carve out some pumpkins together.
(Cooperation)
24

Count pumpkin seeds.
(Math)
25

Bake pumpkin seeds with oil and salt.  (Cooking)
26

Sprinkle salt in a box lid and let your child write words in the salt with her finger.
(Writing)
27

Have a Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Serve Tea.
(Social Skills)
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29

Put stickers on your fingers for finger puppet fun.
(Lang. Dev.)
30

Discuss Halloween safety rules.
(Safety)
31

HALLOWEEN
Take pictures and make a shared memories book. 
(Pre-Reading)