Families searching for a cute preschool Halloween video about celebrating this October holiday can try out the Barney's Halloween Party DVD. In this family-friendly fall video for preschoolers, Barney and his friends explain Halloween customs, sing about fall, model how to prepare for a Halloween celebration, and demonstrate how to trick or treat safely.
Educational Video About Halloween for Preschoolers
While designed to be entertaining for (very) young children, this educational video about Halloween is also full of information about Halloween traditions and kids fall activities. Barney and the children talk about what trick or treating is and, while visiting Farmer Dooley, explain produce stands, orchards, the many uses of apples, and the many sizes and shapes of pumpkins. The children's singing can be annoying, but the information itself is useful for the young audience to know and presented in an easy-to-understand manner.
Preschoolers watching this Barney video will learn not only what trick or treating is, but how to go trick or treating safely. While the other characters are attending the Halloween celebration in the school gym, B.J. and Baby Bop go trick or treating and teach Halloween safety tips like bringing a grown-up along, walking only on the sidewalk, bringing a flashlight, and only going to the houses of people they know.
Barney Video About Kids Halloween Crafts
This Halloween Barney video also explains how to make several creative kids Halloween crafts. Barney and his friends must make decorations for the big Halloween party. After choosing pumpkins from the pumpkin patch, they demonstrate several creative and safe ways to decorate pumpkins, from painting them to gluing on construction paper face parts. Other crafts presented by the children in this Barney Halloween special range from making ghosts with white paint footprints, tracing hands to make paper spiders, and using a brown paper bag to make spooky owl puppets. Preschoolers can copy these artistic activities or use them as a starting point for making up their own Halloween decoration ideas.
Preschool Halloween Video About Halloween Party Activities
The finale of this Barney DVD shows fun Halloween party activities. Young kids watching will learn all about what they might do at a Halloween celebration and the kinds of treats they might be served at one. From a costume parade and a Halloween dance party to carnival games and a candy-filled piñata, Barney and friends show exactly how to celebrate in an exciting but safe way.
The extras that come with this Barney DVD can serve as fun Halloween party activities themselves. Children can play interactive games in which they locate different numbers of various types of crops, match up the parts of different Halloween costumes, or make different Jack-o-Lantern faces on a pumpkin. There is also a Barney's Halloween Party Read Along option, where viewers can have the story read to them by Barney the purple dinosaur or read it to themselves.
Barney's Halloween Party Review
Barney's Halloween Party will teach children lessons about the value of cooperation and teamwork from watching how well the kids in the video work together to plan the celebration. Preschoolers will also see how nice sharing is from how B.J. shares her time to help Baby Bop trick or treat and how everyone shares their treats with B.J. when all she receives is celery.
Adults who find Barney the purple dinosaur annoying or are easily irritated by choruses of children singing will probably want to rent, rather than buy, this Barney video. That said, this fall video for preschoolers does contain interesting information about fall celebrations, and children will definitely enjoy trying out the Halloween crafts to make their own handmade spooky decorations.
Parents looking for other cute, educational Halloween videos for children may like Sesame Street A Magical Halloween Adventure or Dora the Explorer: Dora's Halloween.
Renee Carver - Renée Carver has an Elementary Education degree and over ten years of experience writing and editing children's educational products.
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