Halloween has many traditions – jack-o’-lanterns, trick or treating, dressing up in scary costumes – but in our house it’s the jelly messy play which is the one which is most looked forward to by the children.
In previous years we’ve had jelly lucky dip inside a pumpkin and in a cauldron, which the kids squish through (if they dare!) to grab sweets which are hidden at the bottom. This year we are going with a sensory tub full of green and orange jelly with some ghoulish treasures to discover and scoop out.
Whether you are celebrating Halloween, harvest or the coming of autumn, now is the time to do some pumpkin decorating with your children. We didn’t want to make anything too scary but we did want lots of hands-on, creative fun. We bought some small pumpkins, so everyone could have one each, and set up a decorating station with lots of interesting materials the kids could use to customise their pumpkins.
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Are you ready for our Carnival of Messy Play tomorrow? Come and link up a post on any kind of messy play and help us build a fantastic resource of messy play ideas to share. Any type of messy play, old and new posts welcome. Hope you’ll join us tomorrow.
Carving pumpkins is one of our favourite Halloween traditions and I like to involve the girls as much as possible, even if I’m not quite happy to hand over the carving knife just yet. As you can see, they do the scooping and use a pencil to draw their designs on – . . . → Read More: Simple pumpkin designs
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