I'm somewhat holiday-obsessed, so we start celebrating Halloween early in this household. The Dollar Tree has some pretty awesome Halloween stuff this year, and I picked up three packs of glow-in-the-dark thingies-- bats, rats, and spiders for $1/pack.
I left the creepy critters under our piano lamp all day long so they would soak up the light. I decided to do the hunt in Big Sister's room, so she would be in familiar terrain when clambering around in the pitch black darkness. I gave her a Halloween bucket to collect the spoils, and we were off on the hunt. There was a lot of "hunt hype" during the day leading up to this, so she was super pumped to get going.
She loved this. Unfortunately the critters don't photograph well in the dark, but she had a blast finding and collecting these little guys.
We also had a good opportunity to practice counting and sorting at the end of the hunt-- 12 spiders, 6 bats, and 4 rats. We'll definitely be doing this several more times before October 31.
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