Early Childhood Education-"Encouraging children to eat Bananas"

Need a healthy snack idea to serve to your preschoolers or children?
Weather its for Halloween or just a snack.

Directions:

1. Cut the bananas in half; widthwise. Push a Popsicle stick into each half through the cut end, then cover each pop with plastic wrap and freeze until firm (about 3 hours).

2. Place a 1.5-ounce piece of white chocolate candy in a microwave-safe bowl and cook on high until melted (it generally takes about 1 minute). With a butter knife, spread the melted white chocolate on the frozen banana halves.

Set the pops on a waxed-paper-covered dish. Press on candies or currants for eyes and mouths and return the pops to the freezer until ready to serve.

Early Childhood Education-"Worms in dirt "

A creative science and sensory lesson to make with your children at daycare or preschool.

Ingredients:

• Softened Chocolate Ice Cream or chocolate pudding
• Chocolate Cookie Crumb/crushed oreos
• Gummy Worms
• Plastic clear cups
  

Preparation:

Fill 9 ounce plastic cups about 3/4 of the way full with softened chocolate ice cream or chocolate pudding. Top with about 1/4 inch of chocolate cookie crumbs. Place gummy worms in the "dirt" and eat!

Early Childhood Education-"Halloween Crafts"

Halloween is around the corner, this is a great activity to make with your children at preschool, daycare. You can incorporate sensory, math and science concepts into this lesson.

Materials Needed:

• Exam gloves
• Loose cotton
  
• Black Marker
• Tree branches, twigs
• Tombstone shaped cookies
• clear plastic cups
• Glue gun

Instructions:

Have your children fill a glove with cotton, the fingers, thumb and half of the hand. Tie a knot on the open end. Have the children draw faces on the finger tips, using a black marker.

Caretaker/Teacher: Hot glue the tree branches to the inside bottom and side of the plastic cup. Hot glue the ghosties to the inside base of the plastic cup using the knot as the touch point for the glue. Add some cotton in front and in back of the glove so that it spills over the edge, creating a fog image.

Early Childhood Education-"Halloween HandPrint Spiders "

This is a perfect art activity for children to do at daycare or preschool in time for Halloween. It's also a great sensory project, using fine motor skills!

Materials:

Black paper
Wiggle eyes
Black wool or pipe cleaner
Glue, Scissors

Instructions:

Draw around both hands with fingers spread out and thumbs tight against index fingers.

Cut out the hands and glue them together so that the palms form the spider’s body and the fingers it’s legs.

Glue on the wiggle eyes. Make a small hole through the center of the body. Thread the wool through the hole and tie into a knot.

Hang these spooky spiders from doorways to scare people as they come through!

Early Childhood Education-"Halloween Poems-Songs"

Just in time for the Halloween, these are great songs and poems to sing with your children in daycare, preschool or at home.

"The Silly Willy Spider" The silly willy spider Crawled up on _____'s head! It crawled all around Then made a nice soft bed. It wiggled down his/her shoulder And jumped down to the floor Then the silly willy spider Crawled to someone else for more!	"Little Miss Muffet" Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away!
The Spider in the Web (tune: Farmer in the Dell) The spider in the web, The spider in the web Spin, spin, oh watch him spin, The spider in the web. The spider eats a (bug name) The spider eats a _________. Spin, spin, oh watch him spin, The spider in the web.	Tune: I'm a Little Teapot: I'm a little spider watch me spin If you'll be my dinner I'll let you come in Then I'll spin a web to hold you tight And gobble you up in ONE BIG BITE!
There's a Spider on the Wall Tune: Twinkle Little Star There's a spider on the wall If he's careful he won't fall He moves slowly down the wall I can watch him crawl and crawl I wonder if he minds my stare Or does he know and just not care?	Spider, Spider Fingerplay Spider hurrying, (Run fingers back and forth.) Spider scurrying, See her silken thread. (Stretch thread between fingers and thumb.) Spider hurrying, (Run fingers back and forth.) Spider scurrying, See her little web. (Make spiral with fingers.)

Early Childhood Education-"The art of creating Apple Prints in childcare"

This is the season of going back to school for many children; and also the season for apples. This is a great art and sensory activity to do with your children at daycare, preschool or at home.

Materials:
-apples
-paint
-construction paper
-paper plates

Simply cut the apples in half with a knife. Dip the apples in paint and stamp your art.