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
- 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
- 16 Holiday Projects
Websites
- Ben & Jerry
- Billy Bear’s
- Carving Pumpkins
- Enchanted Learning
- Halloween games, puzzles–clean, easy to understand website and few ads!
- Halloween ghost stories
- Pumpkin Toss
- Signing Halloween–a video
- Skelton Park
- Tagul–see top inset
- 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
- Haunted Hangman
- It Is Halloween
- Landon’s Pumpkins
- Make A Zombie
- MASH: Halloween Edition
- ScrapPad – Halloween Costume Memory Book
- WordSearch Halloween
Can you add any that you love using for Halloween?
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.