Not being in the classroom this year has definitely been different. Knowing there is a “bigger” holiday coming up that many teachers and students across the country will be celebrating has me feeling a bit out-of-sorts. While I love my new position, I miss these fun activities in the classroom! {Although I’m not sure I’m going to miss the headache that often comes at the end of some of these days! 😉 }
Anyway, I was going through some old pictures and found some misc Halloween ideas I’ve done in the past – some academic, some just for fun. Please read on because I’m sure there’s something you can use with your students K-6 or even your kiddos at home!
Create jack-o-lanterns! But don’t let your students off too easy! Before they actually start carving, make them earn that fun activity. 🙂
- Any age group can make a quick estimation of how many seeds will be in each pumpkin when they are all done.
- Older students can then find the mean, median, mode, and range of these seeds after all pumpkins have been emptied out.
- Your youngest learners may benefit from counting all of the seeds – whether from one pumpkin or from many!
- Paint or dye your pumpkin seeds and turn them into an art project!
- Let your older students practice their cooking skills. You may even be able to try a few different recipes and vote which one is the favorite!
- Use the seeds as bingo covers. What teacher doesn’t have some random Bingo games around? {Really, you don’t?! No problem, here’s a link to all the FREE ones on TpT! 🙂 }
- Use the seeds to graph various data. Perhaps graph what each person’s Halloween costume will be or their favorite Halloween animal or simply graph a basic, every day topic!
- Plant a pumpkin seed so your students can watch a new pumpkin start its life!
Now that you’ve done one (or maybe many!) of these ideas, go have fun carving that pumpkin! (Check out this cookie cutter idea if carving sounds like a bit too much work!)
Another favorite activity of mine (particularly when I taught ELL students – although many students can use the fluency practice!) was Readers’ Theater. Here’s a few links to ones you may find worthwhile:
And not entirely Halloween related, but nonfiction fun! Frog or Toad?
How about a game of Halloween Concentration? Click on the version that seems most appropriate for your child or students.
Here’s my Halloween FREEBIE that is in my TpT store! Click here or on the picture to get your copy. (With over 25,000 downloads – I’m pretty proud of this product!)
If that’s not enough, click here to see all of my blog posts that have something to do with Halloween. (There are a LOT of great freebies from other bloggers!)
AND – make sure to check out my Halloween Pinterest board here. There are over 100 posts and I regularly add new items, especially now that the season is upon us. 🙂
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Looking for even more Halloween greatness? Check out these other awesome blog posts!
- Halloween Making Words FREEBIE (Grades 2-6)
- FREE Differentiated Halloween Vocabulary Magic Square Puzzle (Grades K-6)
- FREE Halloween Character Traits activity (Grades 2-6)
- “BOO” your colleagues FREE printable (ALL staff! 🙂 )
- Frankenstein art
- Jack-O-Lantern art
- Halloween Basic Math Fact Cat Puzzles (Grades 1-4)
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