Special Days- Pumpkin Patch and Our Day in the Dark

We had two special days this week! Tuesday we went to the pumpkin patch and had a wonderful time looking at all different kinds of pumpkins. We bought our own small pumpkin, and took those back to paint and decorate before bringing them home on Thursday and Friday.

Our other big day was Our Day in the Dark! We have been learning about nocturnal animals, and Friday we turned off the lights and did our activities in the dark. 

We had slime on a light box:

Shining fall creatures and nature shapes on another light box:

Reading books about nocturnal animals in our tent:

Some of us had glowing clothes and flashlights, and we all wore glow necklaces:

Our sensory bin had a bunch of glow sticks added to help us stir the brew of Halloween beans, rice, pumpkins and bats:

Light bright letters and patterns:

Our water beads glowed under the backlight, and were gobbled by monster finger puppets:

Writing and drawing with fluorescent highlighters by blacklight makes everything shine:

When we were finished, we turned on the lights and used some frosting, pretzel sticks, candy corn and marshmallows to build our little campfire snacks.

It was a busy fun week!