Halloween 2022 -- Bedminster Library/Nicole Paolino's class

Song: I am the Great Pumpkin (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)

Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin – from the book by Erica Silverman -- In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together.  I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.

Finger Puppets:  Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Storytelling (props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow): The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Action Song; Scarecrow, Scarecrow Turn Around

Storytelling (puppets or hanging signs): One Dark Night by Edna Mitchell Preston

Action Song: Two Little Ghosts

Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood by David A. Carter

Song: How to Make a Ghost Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Song/Movement: Hookey Spooky (Tune: Hokey Pokey”)

Song/Flannel: Old McDonald had a Haunted House

Action Song: The Witch on Halloween

Close with "Sing" 

skipped: 

Shakey Eggs to “Dem Bones” (track #16 on Spooky Favorites) & Monster Mash (recording unavailable)

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Nicole Paolino's class (Pumpkins/Halloween) (virtual special needs):

Book (K-2): Bear’s Bargain – Frank Asch (also published as Moonbear’s Bargain)  (“have you ever wished you were big, or could fly?”..we tried flying with bear in the book -- clever problem solving).

Song: I am the Great Pumpkin (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)

Participatory Storytelling (Puppets/Props): Big Pumpkin

Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin – from the book by Erica Silverman -- In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together.  I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.

Finger Puppets:  Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Book: Pumpkins: A Story for a Field by Mary Lyn Ray – A splendid modern environmental myth in which a man, saddened by the thought that the field across from his house is about to be sold, sells everything he has, buys seeds, grows pumpkins, and then sends them all around the world (by planes, trucks, ships, and even flying carpets) to get enough money to buy the field and save it.  (10.14 – omitted in kindergarten, did action song “Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate” instead.)

Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood by David A. Carter

Storytelling (props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow): The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Song/Movement: Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around (Scarecrow puppet)

Singable Book: There was an Old Monster by Ed Emberley (prefer If You Are a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca & Ed Emberley) -- great art inspiration idea!

 

Action Song: "Horns, Fangs, Knees and Paws...Eyes and Ears and Tail and Claws" (Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes variation)

Fold Out Prop: 10 Trick or Treaters (tune: “10 Little Indians”)

Book: Pumpkin Heads – Wendell Minor – clever and unusual ways to carve a pumpkin

More pumpkin ideas:https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Pumpkins
More monster ideas: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Monsters