Topic: Halloween Activities

  • The Runaway Pumpkin Literacy and Activity Pack for Halloween Activities

    The Runaway Pumpkin Literacy and Activity Pack for Halloween Activities

    The Runaway Pumpkin is one of my favorite Halloween books to read to the class. During Halloween week, I read a new Halloween themed book each day. For that week during centers, we do fun literacy activities related to each book. What a fun way to celebrate and learn about Halloween!

    The Runaway Pumpkin is a delightful book that describes the journey of a runaway giant pumpkin as it bumps and thumps its way through the Baxter farm, only to end up as a family feast that night.

    This unit includes several literacy activities related to the story that highlight:

    ✔ Character Traits (Granny and Little Lil)

    ✔ The Setting

    ✔ The Plot

    ✔ The Plot Thickens (sequencing activity)

    ✔ Problem, Solution, and Theme

    ✔ Find all the Action Verbs

    ✔ Pumpkin Adjectives

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Runaway Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt

    ✔ Pumpkin Poem compare and contrast

    ✔ Write your own Personal Narrative Runaway Pumpkin Story

    ✔ Writing Rubric

    ✔ Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Activity

    ✔ Quiz and Answer Key

    These activities work well for reading groups, centers, or as extended activities after reading the book.

  • Halloween Activities Pack

    Halloween Activities Pack

    With this activity pack, students will love learning all about Halloween! These would be fun activities to set up for upper elementary in place of a class party.

    For many years, people have dressed up as ghosts, witches, vampires, and other creatures on Halloween. Believe it or not, folks thought if they looked scary, they would frighten away the spirits that were roaming the Earth on All Hallows Eve.

    Students will learn all about Halloween including:
    ✔ History of Halloween
    ✔ Trick-or-Treating
    ✔ Jack-o-Lanterns
    ✔ Those Batty Bats
    ✔ Spooky Spiders
    ✔ Magical Witches
    ✔ Black Cats
    ✔ Illustrate a Poem: From a Tiny Seed
    ✔ Plus there are two case studies where students will meet
    ✔ Bitty Boo (a microbat) and Wendy Witch

    This packet includes many interactive activities including:
    ✔ Reading passages
    ✔ Scavenger Hunt Organizers
    ✔ Halloween Photo Posters
    ✔ Meet Wendy Witch
    ✔ Meet Bitty Boo Bat
    ✔ Fact or Fiction Activity
    ✔ Halloween Unscramble
    ✔ Halloween Fun
    ✔ Halloween Facts
    ✔ How to Carve a Scarecrow (3 versions)
    ✔ Halloween Writing Prompts
    ✔ Roll and Write a Halloween Story
    ✔ Plus a 5-page Flip Book

    There are two main activities:

    Reading:
    First, read the History of Halloween as a whole group activity. Work on completing the Halloween History Organizer with the class. By doing one together, you will have set the expectations for them for each article.

    At each station or center place copies of the article (passage) and the related scavenger hunt organizers for each student. Also, one copy of the Symbols of Halloween Poster is helpful for students to connect to the information.

    You could have students work in groups or partners to read and answer the questions for each topic. Then they can color the scene on each article/passage. Some teachers like to use these as an “Around the Room Scavenger Hunt” activity to get students up and out of their seats. Simply use a clipboard for their organizers.

    Activities:
    The scavenger hunt organizers are set up to follow along with the articles. Students can act as Halloween detectives to find the information and answer the questions.

    There are several fun activities for students including:
    ✔ Halloween: Fact or Fiction Activity
    ✔ Halloween Acrostic Chart
    ✔ Halloween Writing Prompts
    ✔ Plus there’s a 5 page Halloween Flip Book

    Happy Halloween!