Fun Fall (Halloween) Centers

     On Halloween day we had some really fun, cool centers!  I gave up trying to teach on Halloween because it is just absolutely useless! LOL!!!  There was still learning involved, but in a fun, playful way.  I had some great moms come in and help and boy, did it help them run smoothly!

Cooking Center- We made Pumpkin Pizzas and Spider Cookies

They chose which items they wanted on their pizza to make a face.

We did not eat the pizzas during the center because they had to be cooked.  We had our spider cookies and pizzas for lunch.  I completely forgot to take a picture of the spider cookies!

Candy Corn Math-  In this center they made the front of their Candy Corn book.  

They measured how long their pencil was with candy corn, weighed them, and guessed how many were in a jar.  

Art Center- We made spider hats

The completed hat- so cute!

Science Center- We made slime!  This was definitely the winner!  I found the recipe for the slime  here.  It is super easy and not really messy at all.  We did have to add a little more Borax (about a teaspoon more) to the recipe.  They were even able to take the slime home with them!

Today was a really fun day!  They look great in their spider hats!

To cap the day off, we had a Mystery Reader come and read Miss Spider's Tea Party!

   

Candy Corn Math

    We did this activity yesterday.  They LOVED it!  I think part of the excitement was that we did it on the floor!  It's the little things! :)

Candy Corn Math Book- All of their answers are recorded inside their book.

Estimation-  The green jar is our estimation jar.  I put candy corn in the jar, and they estimated how many were in the jar.  We wrote them down before we counted the candy corn.

                                                                                    

There was a lot of discussion on how much candy corn was actually in the jar!

Recording their answers in their books.

We counted the candy corn.  There were 25 pieces in the jar.  I had one that estimated 23!  He got to eat a candy corn!

We guessed how many candy corns long a pencil is.  Our pencil is 7 candy corn pieces long.

We put 10 candy corns on the balance scale.  Then we guessed how many pennies our 10 candy corns weighed.  

We tasted a candy corn to see whether we liked it or not.  We graphed our answers.  Everyone liked candy corn!

We did the graph today because we ran out of time yesterday.  They thought it was really funny that we ran out of room on the graph! :0  Tomorrow I will put up pictures from the pumpkin centers that we did today! FUN! FUN! FUN!