| With more and more Halloween celebrations taking | | | | nutty, soft, and hard. |
| place in the classroom, at home parties, or at | | | | 10. Look through newspaper ads and see what you |
| community events, here are some cross-curricular | | | | would buy if you had $20. If your children are old |
| Halloween activities for you to enjoy. | | | | enough, have them calculate the tax for your area. |
| 1. Read a Halloween poem or song and find rhyming | | | | 11. Review following directions, measurement, health, |
| words, similes, metaphors, nouns, verbs, | | | | and safety by making Halloween cupcakes, a cake, |
| onomatopoeia, and so on. | | | | or cookies. Use Halloween-related cutters, food |
| 2. Find Halloween-related words in the dictionary by | | | | coloring for frosting, and small candies as decorations. |
| using guide words. Divide them into syllables, write | | | | Of course, adults should supervise children. |
| the accent mark, tell the part of speech, give the | | | | 12. Use a pumpkin for the following activities:a. Cut |
| definition, add suffixes...whatever skills you want to | | | | out the stem, take out the seeds, and carve out the |
| review. | | | | pulp (refrigerate it). Have children draw a face for a |
| 3. Research the origin of Halloween and its symbols. | | | | jack-o-lantern and cut it out.b. Roast the pumpkin |
| Write a report and include a bibliography. | | | | seeds and have store-bought seeds on hand. Let |
| 4. Brainstorm a list of Halloween words and create | | | | children eat both and compare the taste, texture, |
| your own crossword, kriss-kross, or word search | | | | and color.c. Heat the pulp until it is soft and use it to |
| puzzles. | | | | make your own pumpkin pie! (NOTE: One recipe |
| 5. Write a Halloween story or a short play. Perform | | | | usually makes three regular pies.) Make sure to save |
| the play and tape it! | | | | pieces for the principal and others in your school. Tell |
| 6. Tape the class singing Halloween songs and play | | | | children to remember the taste so they can compare |
| them on October 31. | | | | it to a store-bought pumpkin pie.d. Make sure to take |
| 7. See how many 3-letter words you can make out | | | | pictures of each step. Have children write a caption |
| of 'Halloween.' | | | | for each one and make a book. |
| 8. Cut out Halloween pictures from different print | | | | 13. Foster multi-cultural awareness by having candies |
| media to make cards or a collage. | | | | from different countries. |
| 9. Give everyone some colored M&M's and have | | | | I hope these ideas are useful and inspire your own |
| children graph them. Alternately, have children classify | | | | creative thinking. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! |
| the candy they bring to school and graph the | | | | And remember...Reading is FUNdamental! |
| different kinds. Possible categories are chocolatey, | | | | |