Halloween Craft for Preschoolers

I love Halloween. It is such a fun holiday and the learning opportunities are many. With all that is going on, we really wanted to throw ourselves into making this a very special time for our family. My entire family loves this holiday, but my youngest absolutely adores Halloween, so he was over the moon when I announced our decorating plans were going to be started a little early. He told me that this way, we would get to enjoy the holiday for even longer! We decided we were going to decorate our house from top to bottom! I always loved paper chains and decided this would be a fantastic Halloween craft for preschoolers. It is fun, easy, and simple to prepare.

Materials for Halloween Craft for Preschoolers

Orange construction paper
Black construction paper
Scissors
Glue stick

Learning Opportunities

While sometimes, it is just perfectly okay to enjoy fun activities with our littles, I love teaching them something when they don’t even realize they are learning. This Halloween craft for preschoolers is a great way to throw in a teaching opportunity. Yay! This activity is a great way to decorate your home while also teaching little ones about patterning.

Patterns are a series of things that repeat in a logical sequence. This is a great tool to engage your child in such concepts like how to make hypotheses and understand what comes next. It can help develop their reasoning skills as well.

STEP ONE

To begin our Halloween craft for preschoolers, I precut strips of black and orange paper. Just a tip: a few sheets go a long way. I only used several sheets of construction paper for each colour and our paper chains were huge. We had enough strips to last forever!

STEP TWO

I explained what patterns are, but I know that my little one is quite the visual learner. I decided to begin the chain for him and then prompt him for what he thought would come next. I think that many children learn best this way, especially when they are beginning with a new concept.

STEP 3

Our first pattern was simple: orange, black, orange, black,etc. This concept was easily understood. He was having such a good time letting me know what came next, so this chain ended up being quite long. He had decided early on that he was going to make his chain in this Halloween craft for preschoolers bigger than he was. Patterns and measurement…we were learning so much!

STEP 4

Now that this idea was understood and well-practiced, I wanted to add to our learning and further explore this concept with a more complicated pattern for our Halloween craft for preschoolers. My little guy was on a role and decided that we needed more chains!

For our second pattern, I tried an A-A-B pattern. Even though this was done the same way as the last one, it was a little trickier to understand and took a second example to see what I meant. I told you, he was visual (wink, wink)!

STEP 5

What better way to test understanding than to turn the table on my little and ask him to create his very own pattern! He thought for a moment and after the examples we had been working on, he kept it simple and did a whole chain following black, orange, black, orange. This may not have challenged him as I had imagined but this time, he was determined to make this chain as big as daddy! Daddy is 6 feet, so this was quite the feat!

This Halloween craft for preschoolers was super simple, but so full of learning and fun. I hope everyone has a bootiful time doing this awesome craft.

Happy Halloween!

Joanna is a full-time teacher and part-time mompreneur with a personalized and custom gift shop. She has a passion for writing and loves creating wonderful memories for her 3 beautiful children. As a huge fan of Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus, Joanna lives by her biggest lesson: “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!” You can find her on Facebook.