

Table Time

Skill Check
This activity focuses on letter recognition and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
Trace pumpkin shape on orange paper and let the child cut out
Spell the name on the pumpkin with help of child
Divide pumpkin into parts by letters of name
Have the child cut out pieces and past them onto black paper in correct order to spell name
Floortime Play
Activity: Pumpkin Patch
Materials:
You can do a variety of things here! You can either buy fake or real mini pumpkins or make them out of paper. If you buy pumpkins make sure to also get gourds!

Skill Check
Set up a pretend pumpkin patch! If you bought pumpkins and gourds, explore and label the textures, shapes, and colors with your child. If you made pumpkins – explore and label the pumpkins by labeling the size, color, and shape.
Growing My Skills
To expand on this activity, make this a pretend play activity and actually pretend that you are going to the pumpkin patch! You can have your child be the worker at the pumpkin patch or the person who is buying the pumpkins. Make some fake money for your child to “pay” with. In the materials section, there’s some little visuals for your “pumpkin patch.” During the play, focus on back and forth interactions and being able to maintain the play theme!
Relaxation Time

Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child engage and explore in their environment, while also exploring all senses they have been learning/talking about throughout the week.
Growing My Skills
Gather materials
Ask your child about their senses (where is your nose, mouth, ears, hands/fingers, etc.)
Ask your child if they can smell anything (model sniffing with your nose) ask your child if they can hear anything (model touching/listening with your ear, etc.)
Helping your child process and engage in their environment can help them become more present and learn new things!
Asking them questions like; what do you see? and making comments to point out objects like, I see ___!
While pointing at that object, or stopping to take a closer look at something your child seems interested in can help them feel more connected while also introducing them to new things!
Creative Time
Activity: Pumpkin Paper Plate Craft
Materials:
Paper plate
Paint
Black paper cut out into different eyes and mouths for emotions
Glue sticks

Skill Check
The goal of this activity is all about building your child’s creativity and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
Gather materials
Cut out different mouths and eyes for emotions (happy, sad, mad, silly, angry)
Have your child choose which eyes/mouth they want their pumpkin to have
Help your child glue on/decorate their paper plate into a pumpkin
Movement Time
Activity: Monster and Skeleton Walks
Materials:
Safe area or room to play in- in case we lose our balance!

Skill Check
The goal of this week is to focus on grading of force to do big monster stomps or have quiet skeleton feet!
Growing My Skills
Monster walks: walking forward while taking big, heavy, and loud stomping steps
Skeleton walks: walking forward with very quiet and light steps
They may need help by you demonstrating the difference between the two first or doing it with them
Give them verbal reminders for, “Big stomps! Let me hear your monster feet!” vs. “Quiet feet! Don’t let me hear your skeleton steps!”
Mealtime
Activity: Cooking with pumpkin seeds
Materials:
1.5 cups pumpkin seeds
3 Tablespoons of butter melted
pinch of salt
oven
baking sheet

Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to use leftover pumpkin seeds from carving for a healthy snacking alternative.
Language Time
Activity: Halloween vocabulary & crafts
Materials:
Pumpkin craft
orange and green tissue paper
white paper
black marker to draw pumpkin & glue













Skill Check
The goal of this week is to target receptive and expressive language skills through Halloween and pumpkin based activities. Create various Halloween crafts to expand their vocabulary.
Expanding Skills
Walk around the neighborhood, point out all the festive decorations like pumpkins, scarecrows, spiders, ghosts, witches, etc.


