The Ghosts in the Cellar by Jacques Duquennoy Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O’Connell The Snow Ghosts by Leo Landry
Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about ghosts, but also with books about haunted houses and monsters. Keep in mind the gentle nature of your preschool students. Only put out books that are age appropriate and lacking in violence or fear inducing illustrations or text. Always assure your preschool students that things like ghosts, haunted houses and monster are not real, but just myths intended for fun.
Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Marshmallows fall in with the color for this ghost theme: white. Your preschool students can also pretend that the marshmallows are little ghosties.
Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Letter: G/g
Number: 4
Shape: rectangle. You can have your preschool students cut ghost shapes from white rectangles.
Color: white
Fine Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Give each of your preschool students a sheet of black construction paper and a white crayon. Have them outline a ghost shape on the paper and then color it in with the white crayon. They can complete the picture by gluing on a pair of googly eyes.
A variation of this art project is to have your preschool students draw four ghosts to correspond with the focus on the number 4 in this ghost theme.
Gross Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
With some spooky background music playing, let your preschool students don white sheets and then “float” around the classroom. You can also play games like The Hokey Pokey with the sheets on.
Art Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Ghostly footprints: Have your preschool students take off their shoes and socks. Paint the bottoms of their feet with white paint. Have them press their painted feet on a sheet of black construction paper. When the paint dries, let them glue googly eyes on their ghosts.
Songs/Fingerplays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Three great ghost rhymes for preschoolers can be found here. My favorite is Hungry Ghosts. Hungry Ghosts would also make a great flannel board story with it’s colorful ghosts!
Pre-math Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
Give each of your preschool students a sheet of black construction paper on which you have written the numbers 1 through 4 going down the page. Set out several small, white ghost cut outs. Have your preschool students glue the corresponding number of ghosts alongside each number.
Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ghosts
For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters G and g lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 4.
For older students, provide an example of the letters G and g and the number 4. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.
