Get the Crowd Excited! Perfect Performance Ideas for Halloween at Daycare and Kindergarten
Here, we introduce Halloween activities you can enjoy with children! From Halloween dances to paper theater and panel theater, there are plenty of performances that kids can get excited about together.
Stories featuring ghosts and jack-o’-lanterns will have the children thrilled and delighted! By joining voices and moving their bodies, they can immerse themselves in a richly imaginative world.
These activities are perfect for nursery school birthday celebrations and Halloween parties, too.
Create special Halloween memories with the children that you can cherish together.
Exciting! Perfect performance ideas for Halloween at daycare and kindergarten (1–10)
Quiz tournament at the origami theater
This is a quiz event using paper puppets: one side is an origami animal, and the other side has a face drawn in the same color as the animal.
For Halloween, you can switch the animals to ghosts or jack-o’-lanterns to enhance the atmosphere.
Try using Halloween-like colors for the origami, such as orange, purple, and black.
If you make them larger, you can present them in front of a big group of children, making it perfect as entertainment for a Halloween party.
Teachers can also brainstorm together about which motifs to include!
Quiz! Halloween Sketchbook Theater
Don’t actually know it!? Let’s enjoy the event while having fun learning with children about the origins and meaning of Halloween! Some parents and teachers might feel a jolt when asked about the origins of Halloween.
Let’s learn the origins together with the kids using a sketchbook theater.
Knowing the meaning behind the event can spark interest in the world and deepen engagement with the celebration.
This sketchbook theater can be enjoyed by infants through preschoolers, so it’s perfect both as an introduction and as the main feature of a Halloween event!
Theatrical Halloween
Speaking of Halloween, why not put together all those fun elements like dressing up and getting treats and try putting on a play? Dress up as ghosts and witches, and turn the classic tradition of giving and receiving candy into a heartwarming story! You can, of course, create an original tale, or adapt the stories from lots of Halloween-themed picture books for the stage—both are great! It would be wonderful if nursery and kindergarten teachers, as well as parents and guardians, could work together to make a lovely play for the children.
You can also enjoy it as pretend play.
We can’t wait to see the children’s smiles.
Halloween Silhouette Quiz
On Halloween, there’s a culture of dressing up in costumes and decorating rooms—but can you name all the different kinds of ghosts and monsters? For children in preschool classes, it might be easy to answer when looking at illustrations.
But what happens if you turn it into a silhouette quiz? You might find kids who recognize it but can’t recall the name, or ones who puzzle over what shape it is.
It would be great to give hints or share the first letter while keeping the quiz fun and lighthearted.
Halloween Quiz That Even Babies Can Enjoy!
Let’s look for the Halloween friends peeking out and learn their names! When you think of Halloween, there are all kinds of ghosts and motifs, right? This time, here’s an idea to learn the names of those Halloween friends in a quiz format.
It’s a quiz that children from infant to preschool classes can enjoy.
They might also react to the Halloween decorations at school or at home and learn the names! It seems like a great opportunity to deepen children’s learning.
Ghost Ball-Throw Game
This is a strike game where you throw a skull ball at a ghost made out of cardboard.
When the ball hits, the ghost starts to cry.
It’s perfect even for kids who get scared easily! The ghost and skull ball are both easy to make, so it’s highly recommended.
Making several sets helps reduce waiting in line, so why not split the work among the teachers? It’s an ideal idea for teachers planning to set up a game corner on Halloween day.
Laminated Theater: Trick or Treat
Let me introduce a laminated theater for Trick-or-Treat.
For Halloween, there are various costumes prepared, such as a pirate, ninja, clown, and Superman.
We’ll use an Amida lottery to decide which costume the little fox will wear.
After changing into the costume, the fox carries a pumpkin bag and visits the homes of friends like the rabbit and the mouse.
When the magic words “Trick or treat!” are spoken, the transformed friends give wonderful presents.
One of the great things about laminated theater is that you can perform it at the children’s pace.
Please enjoy the interactive back-and-forth with the kids as you put on the show!
