Here’s what you’ll need: black construction paper, glue, Q-Tips, a small cutout of your child’s face.

Glue the Q-Tips in the shape of a skeleton.

The finished skeleton.

You’ll need: paper plate, glue, marker, white tissue paper, construction paper.

Cut the tissue paper into strips, draw a face on the plate, cut out pieces for the hat and bow tie.

Glue the white tissue paper onto the back of the paper plate.

Glue on the hat and bow tie.

The finished friendly ghost.

Here’s what you’ll need: black and blue construction paper, scissors, glue, google eyes, scissors and a pencil.

Trace your child’s hands and cut them out.  Normally I try to have Hailey do the cutting, but I knew this would only cause frustration so I did the cutting.  Then glue the hands onto the blue construction paper.

Add eyes.  (By the way, I have no idea why those shoes are on the table!)

The finished bat.

Spider Web:

Here’s what you’ll need- paper plate with slits cut in the sides, tape, 3 pieces of yarn about 3 feet long, and a spider.

Tape the yarn to the back of the plate and then weave the yarn in and out of the slits cut in the plate.  When you get close to the end of the yarn tape it on the back of the plate and start another piece of yarn.  Add the spider on to the last piece of yarn.

The finished spider web.

The Very Busy Spider:

Here’s what you’ll need: paper, gray crayon, marker, stamp pad and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

Use your crayon to make a rubbing of the spider web.

Stamp your finger print onto the paper.  Add some legs.

The finished spider web.

Spider Craft:

Here’s what you’ll need: black paint (or if you don’t have it- do like I did and mix some dark colors together), glue, piece of egg carton, pom pom, pipe cleaner and something to paint with.

Mix the colors together to try to make the paint look black.

Paint the egg carton cup.

Add the pipe cleaner for legs, glue on the eyes and nose.

The finished spider.

Here’s what you’ll need: we used scrapbook paper for his shirt, construction paper for his face, his buttons, his nose and the crows, part of a cardboard box for his hat and stake (we colored the stake black).  The green stuff for the grass is actually a few pieces cut off of a cheerleading pom-pom.  (Although you could just use tissue paper).  His hair is a few little pieces I took off of the top of some Indian corn.

Glue everything together.

Isn’t he the cutest scarecrow you’ve ever seen?  ;)

You’ll need: a cookie sheet (I covered it with aluminum foil to make clean up easier), red and yellow paint, sponge, pumpkin shaped paper.

Mix yellow and red paint together to see what happens.

Then put your pumpkin down on the paint and press.

Our finished pumpkins.  You could add a face to your pumpkin too if you wanted to make a jack-o-lantern.

You’ll need: small styrofoam ball, orange tissue paper, black felt, small black pipe cleaner, glue.

Rip the orange tissue paper into small pieces and then glue them onto the styrofoam ball, covering the whole thing up.

While your child is busy covering the ball up, cut out some pieces from the felt for a face.

Push the pipe cleaner into the top of your pumpkin for a stem.  Add a face to the pumpkin.

The finished pumpkin.

First Hailey colored the cards.

Then she cut them apart.

Then she glued them onto construction paper in the correct order.

The finished pumpkin sequencing cards.

First Hailey colored the pictures.

Then she cut the pages apart.

The cover of the book.

Hailed added a leaf sticker in the box and then glued a flap on to the top of the box.

A leaf sticker on the dog.

Hailey put a leaf sticker under the table and then glued on a tablecloth flap.

Leaf sticker above the cat.

And behind me- open the flap and there is another leaf sticker.

We also practiced some patterns:

Hailey had to match up the items on to the card and then figure out what was supposed to go into the empty box.

Pattern practice with squirrels.

Here’s what you’ll need: tree shape, leave stickers, words to label the parts and glue.

Glue the tree on.

Add leaves to your tree.

Glue on the names of the parts of the tree.

The finished tree.