26 - 29 October 2020
For October Half Term holiday care we had a theme of 'Tricks and Treats' to capture the excitement and fun of Halloween but in a Covid safe way of course.
We invited ‘Our Kids Social’ to come and host a Halloween Silent Disco (one for each bubble) and we had a week of Halloween inspired crafts, games, edible creations.
Activity plan for the week:
Mon 26th Oct – In the morning we did pumpkin carving and played pin the tail on the cat and in the afternoon created balloon ghosts and had balloon races and guess the creepy voice game.
Tues 27th Oct – Halloween potato printing and a scavenger hunt outdoors for the morning and later we undertook science experiments and made our own potions. We also had ‘Dress the mummy’ game outdoors.
Weds 28th Oct – We made chocolate crispy cakes and played Zombie tig in the morning. In the afternoon we played ‘whats inside the box’ with some Halloween surprises…We also played a blindfold obstacle course (each child had their own blindfold). And we created and told our own spooky stories in outdoors drama to end the day.
Thurs 29th Oct – Edible food art with our Halloween fruit salads and mask making in the morning. Then we had our Halloween Silent Disco in the afternoon from Our Kids Social https://ourkids.social where each bubble will had a 45 minute silent disco with challenges and games played through their own set of headphones. Outdoors we went on a pumpkin hunt and played Halloween charades.
We also decorated the hall and played lots of our games outdoors and we used our gazebos in case of rain so the fun could continue outdoors. Even though we have a theme for the week, children could choose how much of the themed activities they joined in with and there were toys, books, board games and lots of outdoor play equipment available. We split the indoor hall into two so we could have continuous separate safe spaces for the children and any shared equipment was cleaned before each use.