Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students.
Here are ideas for you for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, apps:
Projects
- ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset)
- Lesson Plan: Halloween letter for grades 2-5
- Make a Holiday Card
- A Holiday Card (with Publisher)
- A Holiday flier
Books
Websites
- Ben & Jerry
- Billy Bear’s
- Carving Pumpkins
- Enchanted Learning
- Halloween games, puzzles–clean, easy to understand website and few ads!
- Halloween ghost stories
- Meddybemps Spooky
- Pumpkin Toss
- Signing Halloween–a video
- Skelton Park
- The Kidz Page
Apps
- Ace Math Halloween Games Free Lite
- Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents magazine
- Halloween Card Creator – Free
- Halloween counting & words games-
- Halloween eBook
- Halloween Voice Transformer
- Halloween WordSearch
- It Is Halloween
- Landon’s Pumpkins
- Make A Zombie
- MASH: Halloween Edition
- ScrapPad – Halloween Costume Memory Book
- WordSearch Halloween
Costume
Did you forget to dress up? Or avoid it too long? I have you covered. Print out this sheet and pin it to your shirt (or download this doc–Halloween costume):
Can you add any that you love using for Halloween?
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
I was trying to access your 11 Webtools to make Images talk but keep getting a 404 message. Maybe you could reset the links. Thanks for all that you share – it certainly makes my life easier and validates the projects that I do on my own.
Hi Ellen
Don’t know what happened there. Here’s the link: https://askatechteacher.com/2016/10/14/11-webtools-that-make-images-talk/. It seems to be working. Let me know if you have any other problems.