Halloween activities to boost and enhance your child's development

Halloween fun and activities to boost/enhance your child's development:

Work on auditory processing and following directions:

Fill a plastic pumpkin bucket with small trinkets (plastic spiders, miniature pumpkins, small koosh balls, halloween erasers). Give simple directions such as "get the spider, then the pumpkin" and have your child follow the directions.  Make the tasks more difficult by adding more steps.
To work on fine motor skills have your child remove the items with tongs, or tweezers.

Work on auditory memory:

Make a pretend witches brew.  Take turns saying one thing you would add to the brew.  As the list gets longer, see if you child can still remember all the ingredients.

Compare different candies by finding similarities and differences.  Make piles with the candy and count them.

Try some sensory activities like hiding gummy spiders or worms in jello.  Fill a plastic pumpkin bucket with flour or beans, hide small toys in it and have your child find them.


Try working with recall and sequencing by reading "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything".