Pumpkin Craft - Pumpkin Lanterns and Jack-o-lantern Lanterns

Pumpkin Fall or Halloween Fun! Let your kiddos create a pumpkin lantern. The pumpkin lantern is a great alternative Halloween craft. The added bonus is the final result makes a great fall seasonal display and a simple, print and go craft.

This fall craft includes two different lantern patterns. One lantern includes a fall pumpkin. The second pattern includes a jack-o-lantern. Each lantern requires only printing one black and white page.

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Candy Corn Craft

Candy Corn Counting: Create a Candy corn monster craft this fall or Halloween in your classroom or use this craftivity as a math center to help your students learn to use objects to count from 1-20.

 There are two versions included. For the first version, you will cut the craft out and use colored paper. Use different colored paper for different colors of candy corn math monsters.

 For the second print and go version, print one copy that doesn't require any cutting. I have even included candy corn graphics for you or you can add a bag of candy corn on your own.

You can find this item in my teaching resources store {HERE}

Halloween Teaching Activities: Lots of Fun Halloween Activities for Kids

Boo! It's that time of year when we can get by calling our kiddos little goblins. Welcome to the Halloween season. I don't know about you, but for me Halloween is a season that lasts for the entire month of October. I think it adds a little bit of magic and fun into the classroom. I wanted to share with you some of my latest Halloween teaching resources that are sure to be a Halloween hit in the classroom and homeschool classroom.

 First up is my Halloween fraction game. I wanted to create a fun way to learn about comparing fractions (and meet Common Core standards) so this fraction game board was the answer. This fraction board game has all you need to let your students learn about fractions and have fun.

First, get your students to create their candy bag fraction books. These books represent fractions and the students cut around the lines for each fraction. I added a candy bag to the book to tie into the theme for the game. For each of the fraction task cards, the children must decide which candy bag has the most candy. They can use their fraction book as a manipulative to help them with an answer.

This game includes 90 fraction game cards, costumed kids game pawns, directions, the fraction book, and an answer sheet. This works well as a Halloween math center .

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 Of course you always need to add in a bit of science during Halloween. What about a craft too? I'm so excited about my life cycle of a pumpkin craftivity. It lets students learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin while they create a pumpkin craft. This craft is super any time of they year that you're studying plants.

Let's add in a bit of Halloween writing. These Halloween writing prompts are also a Halloween classroom decoration and they meet the Common Core writing a narrative standard. Each of the 40 prompts create a scenario where the students will write an imaginative narrative. Plus, use them as pencil toppers and you've got a nice little inexpensive Halloween present for your students. Yeah!

I also love my Clip It games. They are so great for recognizing numbers and counting. Plus they are super for fine motor skills. With my Halloween games, students use clothespins and clip the correct answer on each card. Just cut the cards apart and follow the rules for the game in the set. I have two Halloween themed sets.

 If you know anything about the Common Core standards and math, you know about ten frames. I thought I'd make learning about ten frames a little more fun and I added Jack-o-lanterns to the frame. These are my Halloween ten frames. Fun!

Who doesn't love candy corn. Here's my numbers 1-20 candy corn math clip it game too.

Thanks for taking a peek at my Halloween teaching resource round up. Please visit my TeacherPayTeachers teaching shop {Here} to learn more or visit my TeachersNotebook Shop {Here}.

I have to share one more Halloween goodie! Look what I got to eat after school today! {Aren't you Jealous.} Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!!!

And I almost forgot.... check out my classroom Halloween decor. This candy corn bunting is just too cute.

Thanks a bunch,
Robin

Eek! My Favorite Halloween Classroom Freebies

We're celebrating the Halloween season with class this week! We're having a ball with my Halloween Story Starters,  Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Craft, and my super hilarious and fun Spider Hat.

I also decided to sweeten the pot and add a few more Halloween resources, and I'm excited to share my super sweet and FREE finds with you!  

 

Here's what else we're working on. Please visit the blogs from these ladies and you'll find a link to the products or their TpT stores where you can download the free Halloween classroom freebies. Just look for a link like this one. (You can use this one to visit my store too.)





I think this group of resources works well for grades 2-3. They cover other grades too, so check them all out.

• Early Finishers Halloween at Teaching in the Early Years  (I'm so hooked on this. I'm going to need to get the ENTIRE set.)

• Spin a Spooktacular Poem at Bunting Books, and Bainbridge

•  Pumpkin Report by Simply Kinder

• Who Wore What A Fun Halloween Logic Activity by Common Core Math Ideas

• Halloween Magic Squares by Hojo's Teaching Adventure

•  Chomping Nouns by Dragon's Den Curriculum

Enjoy!
Robin Sellers @ Sweet Tea Classroom

Printable Fraction Book {Halloween Themed}

This fraction book has been so useful to help the kiddos compare fractions. With Halloween coming up, I realized that a great way to compare fractions is to use the concept of a candy bag. Students can use this fraction book and compare fractions to decide which fraction would be more.

Plus, they learn so much about fractions when they write the fraction on the top of each sheet and then on each strip. To learn more, please go {Here}.

Halloween Writing Prompts Make Super Halloween Classroom Gifts

I love Halloween writing prompts, don't you? I can think of no other time of year when it's better to add a bit of creative writing to the curriculum than at Halloween. It's this time of the year when students can write about magic, monsters, and really any other imaginary thing they wish. In fact, they get encouraged to be creative and come up with creative stories.

Story Starters

I love using story starters during Halloween too. A story starter is a great tool to get students writing using creative ideas. A story starter provides a prompts that creates a scenario that, well, starts the story. Then students have a free license to finish the story any way they wish.

I got a bit crafty with my story starters this year and decided that they would also make perfect Halloween gifts for students. I took my story starters, added great graphics, put them on pencils, and slid on a super scary little plastic spider. It's like my own little trick or treating adventure for students. They can choose their own story starter and even use their new Halloween pencil and write away through the Halloween season.

You can purchase my black and white Halloween Story Starters {HERE} and the color version {HERE}.


Yeah!!