10 Halloween themed lesson plans

Halloween is right around the corner, and what could be a more fun theme for your fall lesson plans? There are so many different ways to work Halloween into virtually every subject – pumpkins are perfect for science and nature projects; monsters add an element of fun to your creative writing projects, and concepts for interesting art projects are unlimited. Here are ten fun lessons to help you think outside the box for creative ways to work the theme into unexpected lessons. Paint pumpkins into little globes for a geography lesson. assemble a paper skeleton, or get help from your friendly neighborhood monster to learn money sorting skills. Your students will have fun and learn when things are just a little bit spooky in class!

Check out more fall fun with these roundups:

Bat Crafts and Learning Activities

Pumpkin Learning Activities

Fall Learning Activities

Apple Learning Activities

Check out these Halloween Activity Books we found on Amazon to keep the kids busy this Halloween season. The perfect grab and go books for outings, car trips and lazy afternoons.

“How to” writing and Non-fiction activities – The Lesson Plan Diva

Fall Science – Investigating Pumpkins – MPM Ideas

Día de los Muertos Calavera Collage – Modern Art 4 Kids

Eeeek Spiders! – Mrs. Petite’s Teaching Passion

Ghost Hunt: A Writing Activity with Prepositions! – Inspire Me ASAP!

Money Sorting Monsters – Halloween Coin Sorting Game! – MPM Ideas

The Skeletal System – Pinay Homeschooler

Pumpkin Geography – NEA

My Monster ~ An Informative Writing Project & Craftivity – Teachers Pay Teachers

Pumpkin Life Cycle Sequencing Activity – Printable and Lesson Plan – Printables A to Z

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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