Lots of choking hazards, so children under 3 AND children of any age still putting items in their mouth, are only allowed to play under direct, strict supervision.
Learning activities:
- Sorting by orange/black/white
- Sorting by pumpkins/skulls/bats
- Sorting by item
- Counting to 5/10/20+
- Matching bugs
- Stick puppets
- Retelling "5 Little Pumpkins"
- Role playing "Witches Brew"
- Retelling "5 Little Skeletons"
- Make a skeleton
- Patterning
- Scoop/pour/transferring
What's in it?
- Main fill is black and white beans
- Qtips for bones
- Orange/black/white pom poms
- 2 bags of bugs (Dollar Tree)
- Skull/pumpkin/bat erasers (Dollar Tree)
- Gold pipe cleaners
- Mini caldrons (Dollar Tree)
- Stick puppets, Frankenstein and pumpkin
- White cloth pieces
- Bats (Dollar Tree)
- Orange/black/white feathers
- Stick ghost puppets
- Bag of plastic eyeballs (Dollar Tree)
- Bag of plastic skulls (Dollar Tree)
- Packing peanuts for ghosts or bones
- Large styrofoam pumpkins
Mr. R: "The beans are his bones and muscles."
A favorite activity of the 2 year olds.
I found that they really liked just tearing apart the packing peanuts. Still a great fine motor activity and since they are free..."Go for it!"
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