MDO Halloween Party

paint the little mini-pumpkins

Spiders: Use black paint to paint the palm and four fingers (no thumbs) of the right hand and place sideways on paper. Do the same for the left hand and place the palm on top of the palm of the other handprint, so the palms overlap to make the body, and the 8 fingers are the legs. Glue on wiggly eyes.

Jack-o-lantern windsock: let kids color orange paper, then glue pre-cut black shapes on for the jack-o-lantern face. glue black streamers to bottom of orange paper, then glue the 2 ends of paper to make a windsock. Punch 2 holes in the top and tie a string to hang it up.

Those are just 2 crafts I did when I taught daycare that I loved, that were super easy! Have fun!

Maybe you can get those little water bottles, emptied of course and put beans in them to make them into little shakers and wrap a piece of construction paper and let them color it! I know kids that age like things that make noise or at dollar tree they have those little ghost bags where all u do is crumble paper and put it in them i did that with my 16 month old and she loved the fact that she could mess with paper and not get in trouble =)

We just had our MDO party for the same age. They played a "game" where they had to toss a bean bag into a bucket and got a little prize. Then they put halloween themed stickers on a coloring page and ate cookies. They told me all about it and it was fun for them!

When Mikey was that age I made hand snack bags. I got the clear plastic gloves for serving food, stuffed the finger ends with candy corn then filled with popcorn. They loved them. They take more time than you think but the kids loved seeing a basket full of hands come in the door that morning.

How fun! I can't think of a good craft for that age that they can do themselves (I assume you won't have a lot of adults around to help)...maybe someone else here can help.

But, on food, here are some thoughts:

Pumpkin muffins (pumpkin cake made into muffins)
apple slices (I serve these w/ peanut butter, but you probably don't want to for allergies)
cinnamon toasts cut into halloween shapes
jell-o jigglers in halloween shapes (orange and lime flavors)

Have fun!!