Spiders, Bats, and Pumpkins, Day Ten

It’s Cooking Friday! Today, make “bat salad.” Many bats are herbivores and eat mostly fruit. Read a book that discusses this fact, then have your students make a fruit salad. Provide soft fruits, such as bananas, kiwi, orange sections, and strawberries. Have your students use plastic knives to cut the fruit into chunks. You can either assemble the fruit into one large salad, or you can put each fruit into its own bowl and allow the students to choose the fruit that they want to put in their own salad.

For fine motor, make a Halloween necklace or bracelet. If your licensing allows, you could use Oreo Os and the orange pieces from Apple Jacks cereal; if not, use medium-to-small orange, white, and black beads. Thread them onto pipe cleaners or stiff lacing material. You can use visuals to let your students choose whether they prefer to make a bracelet of a necklace. Everyone gets to wear their jewelry home!