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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Halloween Centers and Activities

I do not have an extended list of ideas yet because I do not typically do holiday centers too much time before the actual Holiday. I am sure I will as I gather more ideas and create more lessons and activities. For now this is my list of activities I do or have done in the past.

Literacy Activities:
Halloween Alphabet Cards - match upper and lower case letters
Halloween Bingo - practicing beginning sounds with Halloween pictures (created by Kaelynn W.)
Costume Sentence - students copy my sentence "I am a ______ for Halloween!" They write it in a little lined pumpkin. The pumpkin gets cut out by a parent volunteer. Pictures are taken of each student in his/her costume. Then I put it all in a book so the kids can enjoy and read all year long!
Halloween Compound Words Game- I found this as a free download on TeachersPayTeachers - used for my higher reading Kindergartners as a fun introduction.
Pumpkin Life Cycle Cards - sequencing practice (found somewhere years ago)
Reading of Halloween Books

Math Activities:
Pumpkin Seed Counting - The student puts his/her right hand in a pumpkin and pulls out seeds. They count the seeds and right the number (with assistance) on the right hand on their paper. Then they repeat with their left hand and record number.
Pumpkin Measuring - I have 5 pumpkins labeled 1-5. The students put the pumpkins in order of the smallest to the fastest around. They then measure around the pumpkins with sewing tape measurers and record on the laminated pages. They put the pumpkins in the correct order if any are wrong. Erase and leave for someone else!

Other Fun Activities/Centers:
Witch Broom Limbo
Pumpkin Bowling (little pumpkin rolled to knock over bowling pins or empty 2 liter bottles)
Pin the Pumpkin Face On the Pumpkin - A large pumpkin with velcro is hung up. Students try to pin the face parts on while being blind folded.

That's the beginning list - to be added to!

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