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
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- ASCII art
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- Drawing
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- Tagul
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- Word processing
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- Shapes and pieces
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- Letter
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- Drawing
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
- Haunted Hangman
- It Is Halloween
- Landon’s Pumpkins
- Make A Zombie
- MASH: Halloween Edition
- ScrapPad – Halloween Costume Memory Book
- Talking Skeleton
- 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 six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, 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.
