Halloween
Gathered by Eleanor
MUSEUMS IN THE CLASSROOM PUMPKIN PROJECT:
http://www.chias.org/www/edu/mitc/wkshp/pumpkin/pumpkin.html
Everything you could want for pumpkin
activities in your classroom, including art, games, math, and worksheets.
PUMPKIN MATH, SONGS, PLAYS...
http://www.sillybilly.com/pumkin.html
Perfect for kindergarten classrooms, with
silly songs and fingerplay--the children even get to give their pumpkins a
bath!
PUMPKINS AND MORE!
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/
History, varieties, fun, and facts all make
these pumpkin pages a must stop on your classroom harvest festival menu!
PUMPKIN POTPOURRI:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2221/pumpkin.html
Lots
of October themed activities for the elementary classroom at this site.
BATS 4 KIDS!
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/
A perfect way for your
students to go batty, with your permission! They will find bat facts, pics,
puzzles, quizzes and games. We have a "bat lady" in our county, who
visits classrooms and state parks with her bats and bat-info presentations— the
kids are absolutely fascinated! If you can’t arrange a class bat visit, then
this site will point you to some pretty good presentations that are the next
best thing, and the perfect time of year to investigate!
PRINTSVILLE: HALLOWEEN:
http://www.hp.com/printing_ideas/seasonal_gallery/s_10.html
Hewlett Packard presents a
great site for downloading printable projects and goodies for Halloween. You
will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (available on-site). For Pre/K to Early
Elementary, try the Pumpkin Card: children get to cut out Halloween features
and faces, and paste these onto their pumpkin. For Upper Elementary and early
middle school, students will go for the eye-masks and some of the face-masks.
Older students will get a kick out of some pretty cool iron-on t-shirt
transfers, luminaries and pop-up boxes. Banners, hanging decorations and
labels, all geared to Halloween, can be downloaded here.
EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
LESSON PLAN:
http://star.ucc.nau.edu/FLI/DDLM/G5U2L2.html
This Spanish lesson (grades
5+) on El Dia de Los Muertos includes great worksheets with themed graphics, a
Halloween poem to recite in Spanish, extension activities and a vocabulary
list.
HALLOWEEN TIC-TAC-TOE
TEMPLATES:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/tictac1.html Especially for younger children;
print out the templates for a pumpkin or haunted house game board, and then
create your ghost and pumpkin game pieces.
HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE
MAZE:
http://www.familyeducation.com/printables/piece/ 0,2357,1-9713-245,00.html (Copy
this URL please.)
A fun and spooooky maze for
grades K-3! Print off several copies for your class.
HALLOWEEN SAFETY RULES
AND QUIZ:
http://www.halloweenmagazine.com/teach/game/rule.html
Trick or treaters will want
to review this list of rules to keep children safe on Halloween night. The
rules have been compiled by law enforcement officials, and are followed by a
quiz to test rule knowledge.
HALLOWEEN GAMES &
PARTY IDEAS FOR KIDS,
FAMILIES AND CLASSROOMS:
http://hometown.aol.com/panda34911/KidsParties/
HolidayFunPg11Halloween.html
Moving up to older
elementary children, this site has good mazes, word searches, word scramblers
and jokes. Print them out for your class Halloween party!
HAUNTED HOUSE PAPER
PROJECT:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Halloween/halhouse.htm
This craft project, suitable for grades 4 to
7, allows students to create their own standing haunted house from the
printable templates.
HALLOWEEN MATH!
http://w3.nai.net/~bobsalsa/hallowee.htm
Not standard, not metric,
but Halloween measurements—
Who knew?! Fun and
challenging math exercises, with Halloween tones and graphics, in volume,
velocity, density, mass and "demon-tional analysis"! Have fun! High
school level, from Bob Salsa at Wilton High School.
CHASSE AU TRESOR POUR
HALLOWEEN:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/hchasse.html
An online treasure hunt/webquest for students of French, middle school to high school level.
SALEM WITCH MUSEUM:
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
Click on the 1692 Sites
Tour for a map of witchcraft trials during this infamous historical event. You
will be taken to the different villages where accusations flew rampant and
"witches" were executed here in America. Also click on The Salem
Witch Trials of 1692 for a concise history of these trials.
HALLOWEEN ORIGINS &
CELEBRATIONS
AROUND THE WORLD:
http://www.csulb.edu/~merielle/darkside.html
This article explains the
origins of Halloween in various countries and cultures the world over. Also
click on Darkside Parlour II at page bottom to read about vampires in
literature (Byron, Dryden, etc.) and the treatment of the vampire theme around
the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE:
http://www.realaudio.com/rafiles/npr/ne6o3101.ram
The Cask of Amontillado,
The Raven. . . Poe’s stories are perfect Halloween fare! Listen in on a
RealAudio program from NPR, examining Poe’s writings and exploring his sense of
the macabre.
The
program is from October, 1996--Talk of
the
Nation, and interviews Poe biographer/
actors and Poe museum
curators as it looks at Poe’s rather short life.
THE RAVEN & THE
PURLOINED LETTER:
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/
011594_harp_ITH.html
British actor Basil
Rathbone does an audio reading of The Raven, while actor Anthony Quayle offers
his dramatization of The Purloined Letter.