Halloween Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/holiday/halloween/ Where Play is FUNctional Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:35:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-tfz-icon-copy-copy-32x32.png Halloween Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/holiday/halloween/ 32 32 cutting out bats https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:14:18 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22724 This post may contain affiliate links.A couple of weeks ago, I spontaneously needed to run a preschool group center and had to come up with an activity to have at my table, so I quickly drew a spider that the kids could cut out an glue onto a spider web. I did it with my...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/feed/ 0 Fun October Halloween activities https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-october-halloween-activities/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-october-halloween-activities/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:23:13 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=21396 This post may contain affiliate links.One of my absolute favorite activities, (and the kid’s favorite) is the roll a monster (creature) game. It is also the perfect time of year to play the game as Halloween is right around the corner. We are into October and it is the time of year for fun fall...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-october-halloween-activities/feed/ 0 Fine Motor Skills With Torn Paper Pumpkins https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-skills-torn-paper-pumpkins/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-skills-torn-paper-pumpkins/#respond Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:15:47 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8150 This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a great activity that is worth doing every year. I love having kids tear paper because it really makes them work hard with their fingers and work on those fine motor skills. I have had kids cut out pumpkins and create a jack-o-lantern face on them. Today we...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-skills-torn-paper-pumpkins/feed/ 0 Creature / Monster Drawing and Writing https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/creature-monster-drawing-writing/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/creature-monster-drawing-writing/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:00:48 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8186 This post may contain affiliate links.Lately I have been wanting to do my sentence memory copying activity with the kids that I am working with, and decided to modify it a bit to add monsters / creatures. I have used the monster drawing type of activity that I did in the Roll a Creature game,...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/creature-monster-drawing-writing/feed/ 0 Fun Fine Motor Spider Webs https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-fine-motor-spider-webs/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-fine-motor-spider-webs/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:00:23 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8176 This post may contain affiliate links.I love the look of spider webs, and they are such a beautiful work of art. Here are some spider webs made out of pipe cleaner and popsicle sticks. You place the popsicle sticks (or other pipe cleaners) in cross patterns and duct tape them together. Then you wind the...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-fine-motor-spider-webs/feed/ 2 Spider Craft for Cutting, Folding, gluing, and Writing https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spider-craft-for-cutting-folding-gluing-and-writing/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spider-craft-for-cutting-folding-gluing-and-writing/#comments Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=6437 This post may contain affiliate links.Halloween is coming up soon, so I am having the kids make spiders this week.  The spider bodies require cutting out circles, and the legs require cutting rectangles.  You also have to fold the legs on the marked lines, which is a great activity for visual perception and motor planning....

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spider-craft-for-cutting-folding-gluing-and-writing/feed/ 3 Craft Jack-O-Lantern using pins and face parts for fine motor skills https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/#respond Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=4061 This post may contain affiliate links.I was in a speech therapist’s room this week and she had a foam craft pumpkin with foam jack-o-lantern face parts stuck on using velcro.  This was cute, and I was just going to show pictures of her pumpkin, and then I found some foam face parts at Michaels.  I...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/feed/ 0 Jack-O-Lantern cutting and gluing https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/jack-o-lantern-cutting-and-gluing/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/jack-o-lantern-cutting-and-gluing/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-cutting-and-gluing/ This post may contain affiliate links.Halloween is right around the corner, so here is a pumpkin template to cut out and glue on a piece of paper.  Cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth, and glue them on.  There is a white pumpkin in case you want your students to color it too. I then...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/jack-o-lantern-cutting-and-gluing/feed/ 0 A cute skeleton activity https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/a-cute-skeleton-activity/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/a-cute-skeleton-activity/#respond Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/2011/10/a-cute-skeleton-activity/ This post may contain affiliate links.I found a blog post about printing out a skeleton onto magnet paper and then putting it together onto a magnetic door.  Here is a cute Skelly the Skeleton from the toymaker.com, to print out and use in Halloween activities.  I think that I may print it out and have...

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