Halloween Lesson Plan Ideas

Who loves Halloween more then the witches and goblins? Kids do, and so it's really fun to create new and exciting lesson plans for them to do. However, it can be hard for you to find a good lesson plan that is age appropriate for kids. I have a few Halloween lesson plans that are great for children that are in elementary school. Being a substitute teacher myself I am always looking for ways to make holidays fun and exciting and these are some I plan on using while I substitute this October.

Halloween Lesson Plan 1:
Halloween Math
Here are a few math problems you can have your school kids solve.

1. If every fourth trick-or -treater is a vampire, and every 6th, robot, how many of each will you see if seventy-five trick -or- treaters come to your door?
2. Determine how much money you will have to spend to satisfy seventy-five trick or treaters. (You decide what they get.) For example if a bag of Kit Kat's are $6.95 and each bag contains 39 pieces how many bags of Kit Kat candy will you have to buy for 75 trick-or-treaters and how much will it cost.
3.This one is for the younger age kids (4-6) years old. At Walmart they have those little tiny pumpkins (or you can use gourds) for sale once they start putting out their Halloween stuff. Get at least 10 of those small pumpkins and create simple math for them to do like 5-4=1 and 2+2=4.

Halloween Lesson Plan 2:
Halloween Music
If you don't already, purchase a Halloween CD at Walmart or any other local store that sells Cd's. Have the kids listen to the music and when the music stops have them freeze in place. Or to make it really interesting, have the kids listen to the songs, one by one. Tell them to write down how many times they hear the word pumpkin, or any other Halloween related word you would like to use. Make sure you know the answer and the ones who get the amount right receives a Halloween candy treat.

Halloween Lesson Plan 3:
Halloween Essays
All kids love to write, no matter what age group they are in so this lesson plan can be used even in the earliest class stage of pre-k and go all the way to high-school. If you are deciding to do this though, for a pre-k or kindergarten class be expected they will not know how to write, but they can draw out what they are trying to say.

Have each kid pick a topic and write out an essay for one or even two of those topics. Do this at the beginning of the month and then throughout October you can read one or two of the stories aloud in class to the other students.

Some topic ideas for this can be:
1. Favorite Costume I Ever Had
2. How Would You Celebrate Halloween Differently
3. Write a Halloween Poem
4. Describe a Neighborhood Street On Halloween Night
5. How Would You Persuade a Local Merchant to Give Money Instead of Candy on Halloween Night.

Halloween Lesson Plan 4:
Pumpkin Face Puppets
Make a stencil for a pumpkin. If you can not find one yourself then go over to http://www.fotosearch.com/UNC106/u19444506/, and print out that pumpkin for your guide. Trace that pumpkin from that stencil onto orange and even yellow construction paper. Hand the papers out to the children and have them cut out the pumpkin. Then have them draw circles for their eyes, and a circle for their mouth. Once their eyes and mouth holes are cut out then they can decorate the pumpkin any way they want to. Give them glitter, beads, strings and any other craft supply you would like for them to use. Once they have decorated the pumpkin the way they wanted then take Popsicle sticks and glue them to the back of the pumpkin face. Have the children look through the holes.

You can take this project one step further and have them separate into groups of three and create a short story line that would include all three pumpkin faces talking. A story suggestion can be, "How The Three Little Pumpkins Lost Their Candy". The responses you will get will absolutely tickle you!