Category: Candy

Halloween Service Project

10/31/2013

Supplies:

baggies
various treats
a giving heart
family in need

The children filled bags full of candy, cereal bars, applesauce, hot cocoa, and other yummy treats to give to a family with 7 children that are unable to go out trick-or-treating.

Estimating: Show children a jar filled with Halloween inspired objects and let them guess how many objects are in the jar. Then have the children help you to count the objects.

Number Writing Practice: Create numbers using candies.

Patterns: Give children materials to create patterns such as AB patterns.

Candy Corn Math

10/29/2013

Painting with Licorice

10/28/2013

Supplies

Licorice
Paint
Paper

Instructions:
Have children use licorice as a paintbrush. Let them be creative with the licorice and how they want to use it as a paintbrush.

Floating Skittles and M & M’s

10/28/2013

Supplies:

Skittles and/or M&Ms
Water
Cups

Instructions: Place Skittles or M&Ms into a cup of water letter side up. Be careful not to shake or stir the water. Watch as the letter slowly starts to float to the top of the water. Not all the letters will make it fully intact!

Skittles Paint

10/28/2013

Supplies:

Skittles
Corn syrup
5 Small containers
Paintbrushes
Your favorite paint paper

Instructions:
Have children sort the Skittles by color into the separate containers. The more Skittles you have the brighter the color (we used 20-25 Skittles per color).

Next, have the children pour corn syrup over the Skittles, covering them completely.

Let the children observe each container and discuss any changes they see. Place the containers in a safe place and let them sit for several hours. Stir each color.

Have the children smell each container and discuss the scents. Use paintbrushes to paint the Skittles paint onto the paint paper.

This paint will be very thick! If you want thinner paint you can thin the paint out by sticking the containers in a warm bath of water (we placed the paint containers into a baking dish with warm water).

The painting will need to dry over night and will look glossy.

Halloween Service Project

Halloween Math Ideas

Candy Corn Math

Painting with Licorice

Floating Skittles and M & M’s

Skittles Paint

Halloween and Pumpkins

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