Halloween Play

Put shredded paper along with some cut out halloween objects in a bin and get your toddler to find them. Add on painting them to extend the activity.

Use coloured gravel or lentils as a filler and draw pumpkin faces on cups. Add spoons for an easy sensory activity (caution: can be high mess!)

Make oobleck by combining 2 cups of cornflour and 1 cup of water. Put into ice cube trays along with goggly eyes and freeze. Then put in a tray for your toddler to explore!

Add green food colouring to water along with bottle tops (draw on them with permanent marker to make them eye balls) or pouch/yoghurt tops. Then get scooping!

Make spiders from pipe cleaners or bats by colouring farfalle pasta (put acrylic paint and hand sanitiser in a bag and shake). Put in a tray with a filler such as red lentils and rescue the bats.

Cut out a paper plate in the shape of a pumpkin and stick pasta to it using PVA glue. Once dry, paint the pasta in orange and add a stem.

Mix equal parts paint and washing up liquid, then add a splash of water. Use a cardboard roll and stamp bubble paint onto the paper.

Draw an oval onto a piece of card and punch 4 holes either side of it. Add half a pipe cleaner to each hole (knot the back of them) then thread on beads. Perfect for fine motor practice,

Collect some autumn leaves on a walk, then paint white paint on one side and stamp onto black paper. Once dry, add eyes and mouth.

Draw an outline of a ghost on black paper, then stamp white paint on with cotton wool.

Cut out squares of orange paper, then get sticking onto a paper plate. Add on eyes, a mouth and green leaves to finish your pumpkin.

This is a simple one! Put paint onto a paper plate and use a cookie cutter to stamp onto paper.

Make a firework stamper by cutting strips into a cardboard roll and folding them out. Dip in paint and get stamping!

Get 4 pipe cleaners, fold in half and twist together the top part to make the body of the spider. Fold out the legs.

Cut out card in the shape of a pumpkin. Stick down pom poms to decorate.