Halloween Activity: Roll a Monster

It's officially October which means children are getting excited about Halloween! We've wanted to share some our favorites Halloween activities and hope you and your children will have some monstrous fun.

Roll a Monster Game and Fine Motor Skills Activity

What you need:
Roll a Monster Game printable
Playdough
Container for the different monster parts 
Various wiggly eyes
Straws
Felt
Pompoms or yarn
Dice
Scissors

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Print the Roll a Monster Game printable and use one copy to label the different container parts. We used a utensil drawer organizer.

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Eyes = Wiggly eyes
Arms = Drinking straw cut into pieces
Hair = pompoms or yarn 
Mouth = Felt cut into different mouth shapes
Feet = Feet from printable or use legos, sticks, etc.

Game Instructions:

Hand out a large piece of playdough to each player. Let the players form the playdough in to a monster shape. Taking turns, each player rolls the dice and places the matching body part on their playdough monster. 

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If the player rolls a body part he/she already has, he/she looses a turn. If the player rolls a six, he/she can choose any body part to place on his/her playdough monster. The player that first completes his/her monster wins the game.

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Create a Monster Fine Motor Skill Activity

Let children use the different parts to create their playdough monsters. Is it scarry or is it nice?

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If You Ever See A Monster
Tune: "Did You Ever See A Lassie"

If you ever see a monster,
A big ugly monster.
If you ever see a monster,
Here's what you do!
Make this face......
And this face.....
And this face.....
And this face.....
If you ever see a monster...
Be sure to shout...BOO!

Same or Different? Find the Same Monsters! 

Print out this fun monsters worksheet to help your children learn the concepts of "same" and "different". 

New Preschool and Kindergarten Monster number tracing pages and printables available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library:

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