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I took the plunge to be in charge of my sons kindergarten Halloween party. What am I nuts?
What are some easy and inexpensive projects he can do with his class?
Thanks for the tips...
Melissa
Maybe they could each get a ghost or a monster to decorate? I'm thinking that you make a ghost-shape on white, sturdy paper (or a monstershape) and bring crayons, glitter, paint, stickers etc. for the kids to decorate them with.
I print out pumpkin shapes and face shapes and have them cut them out to make jack-o-lanterns.
Also, two smallish pumpkins, they end up one on top of the other. On one you glue yarn and pumpkin seeds, then staple the two together at the top. So when you open it up you can see the inside of the pumpkin.
A messy, though really cute craft is to have the kids take off a shoe/sock, press their foot into white paint and then press it onto black paper. When turned upside down, it looks like a ghost. They could decorate the ghost any way they want to. I saw this on Barney, lol. You would have to put down a lot of protective paper and have somewhere for them to wash off their foot though. Not something I think you want to get in to, but hey, the kids would like it (well at least the boys would, lol).
I made "Boo Tubes" with my daugters second grade class. You take the empty toilet paper rolls and wrap them in tissue paper that has been stamped on. I used the spider wheel as a decoration. I let them fill it with a treat and then wrapped the paper around the roll and tied each end with colorful ribbons.
take a piece of orange construnction paper, fold in half, have them cut slits about an inch apart, but not all the way to the end (start on the fold.) then you open and put in a circle or a lantern. cut out and glue on triangle eyes, nose, mouth out of black paper, punch holes for yarn to hang it and you have a jack-o-lanturn. I uploaded pictures of a pumpkin one we did, and a black cat. My 3 year old was able to make last year, and my 5 year old loved it. Simple supplies too, a piece of yarn, one piece orange paper, half sheet of black paper, glue, and scissors.
Here are some ideas I have done with my first grade class over the years:
--mummy wrap with toilet paper
--pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern~ I simply draw a huge jackolantern on the board and use small post it notes with their names on them for the nose, a blindfold and you are good to go!
--eyeball race--get chocolate balls that are wrapped in foil and look like an eyeball, separate into 3-4 teams--each team gets an eyeball on a spoon-and you have a relay--if you drop the eyeball--you go back and start over
--decorate already baked sugar cookies
--dirt in a cup--it is just crushed oreos, choco pudding and gummy worms coming out of it.
If you do a google search for "kindergarten halloween games" you should be able to find more. I would also ask the teacher how much time you have to actually play the games.
Halloween Crafts for 5 year olds
they loved it and it was easy. you could also get green gift bags and cut out eyes, nose, mouth and bolts. they could glue them on to make a frankenstein bag. have fun 
