Guest author Jeanette Norman
File Folder Games, Puzzels, and Coloring Sheets are abundant around the web. I have searched high and low for some great resources for everyone. Best of all, they are FREE!!
If you can print in color, this first page has some great pictures for file folder games.
Clipart and Coloring Pages
The Hershey Company
http://www.hersheys.com/trickortreats/downloads/clipart.asp#inner1
Mouse popping out of pumpkin
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/halowen/pumpkn16.gif
Silly Pumpkin
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/halowen/color2.htm
If you have the children dress up, you can pass out awards. Here is one that you can customize.
http://www.kidscerts.com/certs/freehalloweenghostbag.pdf
Activities
101 Things to do with a pumpkin
http://www.youthonline.ca/halloween/101pumpkin.shtml
KiddyHouse – This page has a ton of ideas and coloring pages!
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Themes/halloween/halloween.html
PBSKids Halloween Page
http://pbskids.org/halloween/
Leaf Collages
You can make collages from leaves collected on a nature walk or by coloring a leaf coloring sheet.
Leaf Mobile
Mobiles can be made from leaves collected on a nature walk or by coloring a leaf coloring sheet. Take a stick or a straw and tie a few leaves to it. You can make tiers by tying more straws or sticks to the main straw or stick. Then add leaves in various places.
Draw a Ghost
One of my favorite things is to take black construction paper and use white chalk or even the colored ones on the paper.
Safety
This page would be worth printing out and sending home with children.
http://www.sosnet.com/Safety/halloween.tip.html
Halloween Safety Guide
http://www.halloween-safety.com/
Do you have any resources or links you love for this time of the year? Let us know in the forums!
