Cue the crazy! Halloween is such an exciting time but as a teacher it can be a daunting week. Below are my top 10 Halloween activities to keep things engaging for students in the classroom:
10. Halloween Themed Call & Responses
Sometimes, things get a little loud around Halloween ;) Get your students to quickly focus their attention on you with these fun halloween themed call & responses.
9. Construct a Haunted House
Everyone loves a hands-on-projects! This activity includes math and arts-n-crafts in one engaging package. Kids will solve addition and subtraction problems to earn pumpkins (currency) which they can then spend on construction materials to build their haunted houses.
8. Crime Scene Inferencing Activity
Terrify the students with an elaborate crime scene in the classroom! Kids will have to use the evidence from the crime scene, their thoughts and background knowledge to infer and draw conclusions about what happened at the crime scene.
7. Grammar House of Horror
Is there anything more terrifying than poor grammar? In this activity students will practice identifying tricky homophones, sentence types and subjects/predicates.
6. Magic Math Potions
Channel your inner potion master, decorate the classroom like a Harry Potter dungeon and have students create their own magical math potions! Students will conceal their potion ingredient amounts with math. Variables, order of operations, or subtraction— choose your poison ;)
5. Spin-a-Spooky-Story
Decorate the classroom like an enchanted forest and invite students to bring in their favorite lawn chair! Spin some spooky stories around a fake little camp fire! Set the mood with dim lights, black lights and some haunted forest music!
4. Bat-sketball
A mix of math, bats, and basketball sounds like a great lesson! In this activity, students will solve subtraction problems for a chance to play bat-sketball and earn points.
3. Monster Multiplication
Ready for a multiplication monster mash party? Students will practice their multiplication skills while getting to play pin the witch’s hat on the monster.
2. Build-a-Word-Problem Halloween Themed
Word problems can be tricky so breaking down the structure of certain types of word problems can be incredibly helpful for students. Once they have mastered the structure, students can build their own Halloween themed word problems and share them with their friends.
1. Halloween Stations
Keep the chaos in check on Halloween this year by rotating students through 6 engaging stations!
