Get ready to be spooked with our range of Halloween-themed activities planned for this October half-term. Our Juniors will have a blast creating glitter tattoos, spooky playdough, ghost paintings, hair-raising Halloween witch masks and hats, flying bats, spider webs and terrifyingly tasty treats. As well as the thoughtfully planned timetable of activities for ages 3-6 years, each day, children have the choice to take part in a variety of sports and physical activities like basketball, football, skipping, bouldering and bench ball, as well as a wide selection of arts and crafts materials to choose from. Every day, our Juniors will also have the chance to enhance their creative, sensory, and physical skills with a variety of tuff trays filled with ice, sand, water, and mud. They’ll build dens, conjure up mystical potions with natural resources found on our daily park trip, and more. They will also enjoy lots of free-time in between scheduled activities where they can play board games, colouring, Lego competitions, group games, dress ups, junk modelling and more.
On Monday, we will delve into autumn with natural sensory play with tuff trays and mixed media gluing and sticking activities to practice our fine motor skills. We will make autumn cheerio pictures, do some leaf painting and play i-Spy games. We will make hedgehog salt dough ornaments with twigs and leaf shortbread biscuits. Finally we will make spiders with pipe cleaners and beads, and visit the local park (weather permitting) for some fun on the playground.
On Tuesday, there will be some slimy spaghetti sensory play and spooky nail painting and glitter tattoos. We will be going on an autumn scavenger hunt in the park, we will paint ghost paintings, make tissue paper wreathes and scary monsters from paper plates. There will be lots of group games with music and movement to enjoy together.
On Wednesday, we will play with spooky jelly and enjoy some pumpkin carving. We will make a large ghost together for our afternoon game called ‘Feed the Ghost’. We will make witch and wizard hats for Halloween and walk to Grenfell Park to collect leaves, acorns, twigs and conkers to use in our artwork. We will design a pumpkin with oranges and cucumbers and have tons of fun dressing up with our friends.
On Thursday, we will start the day making funny bones skeleton pictures using cotton buds, learning about the parts of the body. After a trip to the local park to play on the play equipment and enjoy some group activities, we will make flying bats, try out the spider web walking challenge and decorate giant doors for trick or treating with the Discovery group. We will enjoy some sensory play with icy fingers and pumpkin seeds before we get ready to dance the afternoon away at the end of club party. We will have a DJ for children to request their favourite songs.
On Friday, we will celebrate Diwali by making lanterns and painting henna and glitter tattoos. We will make firework pictures and breadstick sparklers before heading to the cinema to see the latest and greatest children’s film.