Halloween Fun

Halloween is coming up and the students get so excited for it!!  This is when I love doing little Halloween games that are fun and the students can play over and over.  I use erasers and plastic spiders from the Dollar Store.  Here are some of the games we like to play in my class:

Zero Wins

Player A takes 10 pumpkin erasers and places them on the pumpkin and Player B takes 10 ghost erasers and places them on the ghost. Each player, in turn, spins the spinner and does what it says.  For example, if Player A spins “get 2”, Player A must take 2 ghost erasers and put them with their pumpkin erasers.  If Player B spins “lose 3”, Player B gives 3 of the ghost erasers to Player A.  The first player to end up with zero erasers wins.




Spider's Web

Taking turns, each player flicks the paper clip on the spinner and whatever number the paper clip lands on, the player takes that many spiders off the spider web.  Once all the spiders are off the web, each player counts how many spiders they each have and the winner is the player who has the most spiders.



Ghosts and Pumpkins

One player picks to be pumpkins (Player A) and one player picks to be ghosts (Player B).  Taking turns, each player flicks the paper clip on the spinner and if the spinner lands on the object they have chosen, they may take that many of the object.  For example, Player A spins and it lands on 2 pumpkins .  Player A then takes 2 pumpkins .  If Player A spins and it lands on 2 ghosts, Player A loses a turn.  The first player to collect all their objects wins.  



Candy Corn and Spiders

One player picks to be candy corn (Player A) and one player picks to be spiders (Player B).  Taking turns, each player flicks the paper clip on the spinner and if the spinner lands on the object they have chosen, they may take that many of the object.  For example, Player A spins and it lands on 2 candy corn.  Player A then takes 2 candy corn.  If Player A spins and it lands on 2 spiders, Player A loses a turn.  The first player to collect all their objects wins.  





I also love to make class books - ones that we can read together and ones the students make the pages and I put the books together.  



And the kids love creating emergent readers they can read to their book buddies and take home to read to mom and dad. 


So I have put together a Halloween package that includes the following:

This product includes the following:
- Zero Wins board game (colour & black and white boards)
- Pumpkin board game (colour & black and white boards) and spinners
- Ghost and Pumpkin board game (colour & black and white boards) and spinners
- Spider Web board game and spinners
- Candy Corn and Spider board game (colour & black and white boards) and spinners
- On Halloween Class book  (2 different borders on student pages and 4 different cover pages with fun Halloween font)
                - On Halloween ___________ will be ________________
- Colour & Black and white whole page pumpkin for making different pumpkin faces
- Various pumpkin faces to cut out (white background and orange background)
- I Love Halloween Class Book (1 cover and 2 different student pages)
                - I love _____________________
- I Love Halloween emergent reader (students trace words and finish the sentences and add their own drawings)
- What Is Scary? Class Book (cover and student page & emergent reader pages)
                A ______________ is scary.
- What Is Scary? emergent reader (students trace words and finish the sentences and add their own drawings)
- What Is Scary? emergent reader (students trace words and colour the pictures provided)
- Witch, Witch, What Do You See? class book (cover and student pages & emergent reader pages)
- Witch, Witch, What Do You See? emergent reader (students trace words and colour the pictures provided)
- On Halloween Night Class Book (cover and student page & emergent reader pages)
                - On Halloween night I saw  _____________________
-On Halloween Night emergent reader (students trace words and add their own drawings)
-On Halloween Night emergent reader (students trace words and colour the pictures provided)

You can find this package in my TpT store at the following link:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Fun-Package

Enjoy!

Kemble

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