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Counting with a Halloween Craft

September 23, 2013 by Sarah 5 Comments

Halloween craft counting

Is it too soon for a Halloween craft?  Not in our house!  I love Holidays or Celebrations of any kind – and so do my wee ones.  Our monster numbers activity we had been doing led us very nicely to this Halloween Craft.  It is monster counting in a craft form.

halloween craft counting

This Halloween Craft is an excellent learning activity for toddlers and preschoolers.  This craft teaches counting, writing numbers, fine motor skills, and following directions.  All very important skills, and with this Halloween Craft – your wee one will be so absorbed with fun the learning will happen all on it’s own.

I have done two versions of this Halloween Craft before.

The first version is to give wee ones a sheet of visual instructions to follow, like this:

halloween craft counting

Then wee ones complete their Halloween Craft monster by following those instructions.

The second version I chose for my Sammy and it works better, perhaps, for wee learners who would rather give the directions then follow.  Still a very important skill!  For this version of the Halloween craft I provided Sammy with all of the materials so he could complete his monster however he would like.  I provided:

Monster cut out

Glue

googly eyes

many construction paper mouths, noses, and legs

pipe cleaners

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When he was finished his Monster, we wrote a description of that monster.  I had glued all of the body parts we had used on to a sheet of paper.  Sammy then counted how many mouths his monster had and wrote the number beside the picture of the mouth.  He is just beginning to write, so he asked me to do dots for the numbers.  We used black paper with chalk, just as something different.

halloween craft counting

He counted the body part, told me the number, I dotted the number while saying the rhyme, and finally he traced the number while saying the rhyme.

halloween craft counting

This activity could easily be completed time and time again by simply not gluing the body parts.  Sammy loves gluing, so I knew that would make the activity much more engaging for him.

Halloween crafts provide a fun, different way for wee ones to practice foundational skills such as counting, writing, and following directions.

I think Sammy’s Halloween craft counting monster looks very cute.  Once it is dry we will hang it up and it will officially be our first Halloween decoration.

What is your wee ones favourite Halloween Craft?

 

Filed Under: Halloween, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Numbers and Counting, Toddler, Toddlers, Toddlers

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Comments

  1. Mildred Noftle says

    September 23, 2013 at 11:38 pm

    Halloween Monsters… so cute..and Sammy so busy. This How Wee learn is amazing.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      September 27, 2013 at 4:56 pm

      Thank you so much!

      Reply
  2. James Robinson says

    September 25, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    Cute, cute, cute. Looks like your kid had a lot of fun.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      September 27, 2013 at 4:55 pm

      Thank you James – yes he really did have a blast!

      Reply

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  1. Creepy Crawly Spider Legs Counting | How Wee Learn says:
    October 9, 2013 at 11:10 am

    […] on a Spider kick lately, which inspired me to do a spider activity too.  We have done oodles of monster activities, but no spiders yet.  So I decided it was time for some creepy crawly Spider Legs […]

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