Halloween Sing-a-Long

OK, so after the tricksy costume post of yesterday, I thought I would give my mommy (and daddy and friends of children) readers some treats in the way of fun Halloween songs to sing with your kids. I teach music at a preschool on Monday mornings, and tested these out on children just today. They loved them, and perhaps your kids will, too. Here are 2 songs for your singing pleasure:

(to the tune of I'm a little Teapot)
I'm a little Pumpkin, orange and round (hold arms out in front, making a round pumpkin shape)
Here is my stem (hand in a fist on top of head)
There is the ground (point to ground)
When I get all cut up (make slashing motions with hand)
Don't you shout (waggle your finger)
Just open me up (pull that stem off of your head... i've left it there the whole time and done the other motions with my left hand)
and scoop me out (use one arm to make pumpkin shape, other hand to scoop)

The Hooky Spooky (to the tune of the Hokey Pokey, of course)
I always start by holding an imaginary pumpkin in front of me, and telling the kids to put the pumpkin on their head. It helps to get the pumpkin on your head if you make a fun little popping sound to fit it on. As always. ;) Then, we are ready to sing...
You put your pumpkin head in
You put your pumpkin head out
You put your pumpkin head in and shake it all about
You do the Hooky Spooky and you turn yourself around
Then give a little shout "BOO!"
(as you can imagine, the boo is the their favorite part!Then I tell them that witches often have long, scary fingernails, and we wave our hands about menacingly before...)
You put your witchy nails in
You put your witchy nails out
You put your witchy nails in
And you wiggle them about
You do the Hooky Spooky and you turn yourself around
Then give a little shout "BOO!"
(hold arms out straight in front of you)
You put your zombie arms in
You put your zombie arms out
You put your zombie arms in
And you shake them all about
You do the Hooky Spooky and you turn yourself around
Then give a little shout "BOO!"
(encourage kids to try floating like a ghost, and then...)
You put your Ghost Self in
You put your Ghost Self out
You put your Ghost Self in
And you float all about
You do the Hooky Spooky and you turn yourself around
Then give a little shout "BOO!"


Enjoy! And, as an added bonus, my favorite Halloween book to read with kids is The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afriad of Anything It's a great book to get the kids involved, they can be the wiggle wiggle of the pants and the shake shake of the shirt and the clomp clomp of the shoes... they love to build up and do all the sounds. Very fun.