When children are done with their rough drafts and have made
all of their corrections they can then have the final paper which would look
like the one featured. For those students who finish early they can decorate
their work with the bat or they can create and color the ones that they draw.
Another creative way to get children to write and have
fun creating and coloring something would be with this activity. The children
use a dice and roll to what their monster would look like then they would have
to recreate them. In order to spice up this activity it would be best to have
children write about the average day of a monster or what their monster likes
to do.
A worksheet to go with the monster activity or any other Halloween
story would be like the one below.
This worksheet can be used for students during the revision
phase of their stories, or once they are done and they can share them with other
students in the class. The worksheet shows the basic outline to follow through
a story, not only that but for the children it gives them a guideline and keeps
their story from going off track, because we all know children can go on and on
and have their stories go in all sorts of directions!
A different activity to do with the children would be to
help decorate a door or a bulletin board in the class like the one below.
Having children make scared faces or faces that they think go
with a haunted house can be an activity that leads to a creative writing
activity as follows:
They not only have to focus on the features of a haunted
house, but they can create a story describing a haunted house that they visited
or their characters visited or if they like them or not. The last worksheet can
help students compare their writing and make sure they have the important
elements of a haunted house like spider webs, and creaky floors!
For the younger students an activity to help group words
together, with the use of a spider, can be done in the classroom or sent home
for students to work on at home for their weekly word list.
Even though spiders are typically only thought about during
Halloween, this activity can be useful throughout any part of the year. It
helps students recognize the pattern and helps with grouping and spelling.
Most of these activities can be displayed throughout the classroom
or on a bulletin board. These activities can make a classroom very decorative
and festive!
