Celebrating Halloween in early childhood settings can be enriching, but it’s important to weigh the benefits and challenges thoughtfully. Here's a breakdown to help guide your decision:
Here’s a playful set of questions you can use during group time to explore children’s understanding of Halloween. These are designed to spark curiosity, storytelling, and cultural reflection, while keeping things warm and inclusive.
Halloween is more than costumes and candy; it's a cultural moment that invites play, storytelling, and community connection. But beneath the surface, it also offers a rich opportunity for reflection. What are we celebrating, and how does it shape our values, identities, and relationships? Here’s a thoughtful set of critical reflection questions for families considering whether to celebrate Halloween, designed to support values-based decision-making, emotional safety, and inclusive dialogue.
Celebrating Halloween in early childhood settings in Australia can be a fun and enriching experience. The following article provides the Pros and Cons Of Celebrating Halloween, Learning Goals For Halloween A Theme, Halloween Activities For Toddlers and Preschoolers, Linking Halloween To The EYLF and more.
On the 31st of October, it is Halloween. The following provides Halloween Templates, free Printables and Activities that will help you celebrate Halloween at your service and can be implemented into the curriculum for children.
With Halloween, just a couple of days away here is a list of our free Printables and Activities that you can download for free to use with children on Monday 31st October to celebrate Halloween. Haloween Theme printables include Pre Writing, Counting Numbers, Cutting Activities, Shapes Activities, Colours Activities, Colouring Pages and more!
The Halloween Songs and Rhymes Posters are great to display within the learning environment for Halloween! These are easy and catchy songs to teach children based on a Halloween theme. These songs include action and counting songs which can be used during group time or during transitions.
Halloween Tracing helps the children in their development of prewriting skills by encouraging them to trace pictures. By tracing pictures children trace over different lines and shapes while creating the picture which will give them the confidence to write letters and numbers.
Five Day Care employees from Hamilton, Mississippi, America, were criminally charged with child abuse after a viral video from earlier this month, shows a daycare worker scaring children with a Halloween mask.
The Witches Brew Bubble Counting encourages children to identify the number on the cauldron and add the matching number of bubbles on top of the cauldron. These can be laminated and also used with play dough. This is great for children beginning to recognise numbers and also for counting and one-to-one correspondence.
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