Description:
Students practice Halloween vocabulary and collect small picture cards to paste onto their haunted house handout. It's fun for them to collect all of the items and decorate their handout. I designed the activity for use in my special needs classes, but it could also be adapted for use in elementary school.
Preparation:
Students will need glue and colored pencils or crayons. The teacher needs to print out the haunted house worksheet and cut out some Halloween pictures (bats, skulls, pumpkins, etc.).
Procedure:
- Practice the Halloween vocabulary words: witch, bat, skull, ghost, cat, spider, pumpkin. (I usually draw them on the board and have the students repeat after me.)
- Practice the phrase for getting picture cards. I recommend "Please give me ~." (Other phrases work, too: "Can I have ~?", "~, please!")
- Distribute the worksheets and let the students get out the materials they will need.
- Decide how many pictures each student can get, and let them begin.
Tips & Advice:
- If the class is distracted easily, you may want to let them get out their materials after they have collected all of their small picture cards.
- Pasting the pictures and coloring the haunted house can take a long time, so I usually use the whole lesson time.
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Thank you! Very simple activity, perfect for my 3rd grade students.
Thats a nice idea!! I like the fact that they can colour in the picture as well.