My Jack-O-Lantern Mosaic Mask

[20 Minutes]

Your child will jump for joy with this jolly jack-o-lantern mask you can make together!

You'll need:

• paper plate • orange and black construction paper • paste or glue • scissors (ADULT USE ONLY) • Popsicle stick

What to do:

1. Invite your child to tear orange construction paper into small pieces.
2. Help him spread paste or glue on a paper plate.
3. Invite your child to place the orange paper pieces on the plate.
4. Cut basic shapes - triangles, long rectangles, squares, and circles out of black construction paper.
5. Encourage your child to help make a jack-o-lantern face using these shapes.
6. Challenge him to glue these onto the orange paper covered plate.
7. Carefully cut out eye holes.
8. Add a Popsicle stick with tape for a handle.

How to use:

1. Suggest your child dress in orange clothes and use this mask to pretend to be a jack-o-lantern.
2. Invite your child to hold this mask to his face as you dramatize and dance to this song. (Tune: "Did You Ever See a Lassie?"):

   I am the great orange pumpkin, orange pumpkin, orange pumpkin.
   I am the great orange pumpkin. Come dance with me.
   For your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends.
   I am the great orange pumpkin on Halloween night.

Let's Talk: Ideas to Explore Together.

• Let's make a jack-o-lantern mask.
• Here is a circle. Can you find the other circle?
• Shall we use the circles for the jack-o-lantern's eyes? Show me where you would like to put the eyes.

Useful information:

While you are having fun together, this activity helps your child develop small muscle skills and language skills.