This October 31st, take the opportunity to celebrate all things spooky with our top Halloween classroom tips.

1. Halloween classroom tips for teachers

2. Something wicked this way
comes...
Halloween provides the perfect opportunity to dress up the
classroom and engage students in new games and activities.
This October 31st, take the opportunity to celebrate all things
spooky with our top Halloween classroom tips.

3. Get dressed up...
There’s no better time of the year to encourage fancy dress
than at Halloween. With the 31st falling on a Monday this year,
students will have all weekend to plan their costumes. You may
want to give your students a theme to work around to help
make it a bit more educational, such as ‘Historical Heroes and
Heroines’ or ‘Literary Villains’.
Don’t limit the fancy dress to outfits - you can dress up the
classroom too. Plan an arts and crafts afternoon carving
pumpkins, cutting out hanging bats and ghosts and making
slime.
Younger children can make pumpkin stamps out of halved
apples and some orange paint or colour in printouts of
witches, goblins and ghouls.

4. Prepare activities...
Halloween can tie in nicely with your science lessons, particularly if
you’re teaching human anatomy (where students can make fake
blood) or chemistry (where dry ice can make a splash).
For younger children getting to grips with numbers and
measurements, pumpkins can be used to help teach weight and
size. Have students guess how big and heavy they think a pumpkin
is and teach them how they can find out an accurate answer.
If you’re a supply teacher and on standby for the days surrounding
Halloween, ensure you’ve got a few appropriately themed games
and activities in your resource kit just in case you get called in over
this period.

5. Make it educational...
While Halloween’s history is often forgotten in the
excitements of dressing up and collecting sweets, its origins
date back centuries. Take the opportunity to teach students
about Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival said to have
influenced Halloween, and All Saints’ Day, a day designated to
honour martyrs and saints.
For older students, use Halloween as a tool to help teach
literary concepts such as plot structure, foreshadowing, genre
and setting. Make it interesting for your students by
introducing spooky stories and films such as Casper, The
Witches, Coraline and Hocus Pocus.
Halloween haikus could also be a fun and creative way to help
hone writing skills. You could also encourage students to
incorporate Halloween themes into their creative writing,
using suspense and drama to enhance their stories.

6. SEND tips...
If you’re a SEND teacher looking for ways to celebrate Halloween
with your students, there are plenty of ways you can help ensure
everyone is included.
SEND students may feel uncomfortable with loud, lively parties, so
ensure you have plenty of quieter activities planned, such as
reading stories in a comfortable corner of the classroom or
drawing spooky characters.

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