Apple painting to pumpkin bashing: 5 ways to play this Halloween week
Halloween may look a little different this year, but there is no reason we can't have fun with our kids and stay safe! Enjoy some fun family time or set up these activities with close friends and pod mates!
Posted — UpdatedHalloween may look a little different this year, but there is no reason we can’t have fun with our kids and stay safe! Enjoy some fun family time or set up these activities with close friends and pod mates!
Pumpkin Bash
Grab some pumpkins, golf tees and hammers or wooden blocks! Have each person design a face for their pumpkin and make it by hammering the tees into the pumpkin. Take it a step further and paint the tees to add character.
Apple Painting
Provide a large piece of paper. Cut apples in half. Place paint on tray. Dip apples in paint and then stamp them on the paper. Each person can make their own masterpiece or work together on one. An adult can draw a picture to be filled in or a tree to stamp the apples on or you can leave it freeform.
Apple or Pumpkin Smash
Get out you baseball bats! Hang an apple or a pumpkin from a string and take turns hitting it with a bat until it smashes! Do one of each and compare which takes more hits!
Apple Mash
Soften apples in the microwave (cored with peels on or off). Give each child a masher (an actual masher or a spatula or a hammer). Spread the cooled apples on a tray and let the kids mash them up. Have adds-ins for flavor like cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice or berry purée and let them choose which to add. Then finish cooking and enjoy. Up the sensory aspect by allowing tasting throughout the process and letting them use their hands for mashing.
Mask Making
You have to wear them. Why not have fun with it! Grab some solid colored masks and puff or fabric paint and make a mask-tume. Draw some whiskers or a pig nose, some unicorn sparkle? Maybe a killer mustache? It’s good clean fun!
Remember you can always increase safety by increasing distance and wearing masks! Also, children often need a visual reminder so actually marking off areas is helpful for them. You can use spray paint, chalk, rope, cones or hula hoops!.
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