Halloween Activity Ideas

I have found that the students I work with absolutely love to dress up and do things for Halloween. There are a lot of activities you can do to have fun with someone with disabilities around Halloween time. Doing fun activities based on holidays coming up is a great bonding and is very easy to plan activities around.

Most of the students I work with ages anywhere from 5-18 love to carve and decorate pumpkins. They are very helpful with drawing the design on the front for you to carve. They also like to paint faces on the front of the pumpkins. The pumpkins usually turn out very cute and there is nothing better than the smile on their face because they made something all by themselves. Before decorating them it is usually fun to go to a pumpkin patch and pick out the pumpkins they want to decorate.

There are all kinds of Halloween treats you can make with them. There are some simple treats like rice krispy treat pumpkins, witch hat cookies, or any kind of cupcakes or cookies that you can decorate with Halloween symbols. The rice krispy pumpkins are very easy to make. You make them like rice krispy treats using any generic recipe adding orange food coloring and shaping them into a ball then add a tootsie roll on the top for the stem. The witch hat cookies are also easy to make. Bake any kind of cookies you like, make some puppy chow, get some icing and ice cream cones. Put some puppy chow in the ice cream cones to fill it about ¾ of the way. Put the cones on the cookies and add some icing around the bottom of the cones and ice the cookies and the cones so they are one color. Then decorate them with whatever else to make them look cute. You can put cats, ghosts, pumpkins, or anything that reminds you of Halloween on the cupcakes or cookies. They will just have fun decorating and eating the treats.

A lot of the students still love to dress up in costumes so doing makeup for the costume before they go trick or treating or to a Halloween party is a great and fun idea. If they are a girl it is a lot easier they can have pretty makeup on or have a cute face painted on to match their costume usually. If they are a boy it is still possible to do their makeup you can paint their face to match their costume or put fake blood or cuts on them.