HALLOWEEN & DAY OF THE DEAD BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity

SAVE OVER 50%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 137-page (+4 PowerPoints) Halloween Megan Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) with your students! 2 reading passages, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key, 6 writing prompts (2 narrative, 2 informative, 2 opinion) with 10 writing papers, Revising & editing checklists, Online research activity, Create-Your-Own Sugar Skull Art Activity with 6 variations (with rubric), 16 Creation Stations (with PowerPoint), 12 STEM Challenges (with PowerPoint), 10 Just for Fun Games/Activities (with answer keys), 27 Minute to Win It Games (with PowerPoint that has timer), Video & Book Links, 3 Coloring Sheets, 1 “What’s Your Candy Personality” Inventory, Teacher Directions, and Supply Request Letter are all included!

***THIS IS A BUNDLE, SO THE SEPARATE ACTIVITIES SOLD ON TPT ARE ALL BUNDLED TOGETHER. THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES A BONUS FILE WHICH IS THE SAME THING, BUT EVERYTHING IS TOGETHER IN ONE FILE. THIS MAY BE EASIER FOR YOU TO ACCESS AND ORGANIZE ***

Table of Contents

• 1-2 Table of Contents
• 3-12 Teacher Directions
• 13 Supply Request Letter

14-44 Reading, Writing, Research

• 15 Video Links: These optional videos can be used to supplement your lesson
• 16 Fiction Reading Passage: Read the scary short story "Sounds in the Night"
• 17-18 Passage Questions & Answer Key
• 19-20 Nonfiction Reading Passage: Read about Day of the Dead and Sugar Skulls
• 21-22 Passage Questions & Answer Key
• 23 Writing Prompts
• 24-25 Narrative Writing Prompts
• 26 Narrative Revising/Editing Checklists & Color-Code Key
• 27-28 Informative Writing Prompts
• 29 Informative Revising/Editing Checklists & Color-Code Key
• 30-31 Opinion Writing Prompts
• 32 Opinion Revising/Editing Checklists & Color-Code Key
• 33-42 Writing Paper
• 43 Research Page: Do online research to compare/contrast Halloween with Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)
• 44 Research Page Answer Key

45-87 Art & Creation Stations

• 46-51 Sugar Skull Art Activity: Students will create their own Sugar Skull using paper or clay that represents themselves, someone special, or a story character.
• 52-53 Sugar Skull Art Supplements
• 54 Sugar Skull Art Rubric
• 55-62 Creation Stations: 16 Creation Station direction cards, all supplements needed, and PowerPoint directions are included!
• 63-87 Creation Station Supplements

88-101 STEM & STEAM Challenges: 12 STEM/STEAM Challenges with directions, supplements, and PowerPoint directions are included!

• Skeleton Bridge
• Flying Witch Challenge
• Spider Web Challenge
• Paper Batplane Challenge
• Flying Ghost Challenge
• Haunted House Challenge
• Pumpkin Chunkin/ Catapult
• Costume Contest
• Extra! Extra! Costume Contest
• Fall Scavenger Hunt
• Fall Fashion Costume Contest
• Self-Portrait Individual Poster

102-108 Minute to Win It Games: 27 Halloween-themed Minute to Win It Games with directions, supply lists, and PowerPoint (with timer!) are included!

109-134 More Dot Activities: These are simply even MORE fun, thematic activities!

• Halloween Crack the Code
• Halloween Alphabet Game
• Halloween Word Mine
• Day of the Dead Word Mine
• Frankenstein Word Mine
• Halloween Mad Lib
• Halloween Hink Pink
• Halloween Word Search
• Halloween Word Scramble
• Sugar Skull Coloring Sheets
• The Starry Night Coloring Sheet
• What’s Your Candy Personality

Attached Minute to Win It PowerPoint

Attached STEM Challenge PowerPoint

Attached Creation Station PowerPoint

Attached The Starry Night 25 Block Collaboration Poster

Attached The Ultimate Halloween Jeopardy-style Party Game

***THIS IS A BUNDLE, SO THE SEPARATE ACTIVITIES SOLD ON TPT ARE ALL BUNDLED TOGETHER. THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES A BONUS FILE WHICH IS THE SAME THING, BUT EVERYTHING IS TOGETHER IN ONE FILE. THIS MAY BE EASIER FOR YOU TO ACCESS AND ORGANIZE ***

Writing Prompt Info

•2 Narrative, 2 Informative, and 2 Opinion Writing Prompts are included.

•For each type of writing, one prompt is related to the fiction passage “Sounds in the Night” and the other is related to the nonfiction passage “Sugar Skulls”.

Writing Prompts are provided in two formats:

•Prompt Choice Board: All prompts on one page

•Prompt With Lines: Students respond to prompts on provided lines

Writing Tools that are included:

•Revising and editing checklists for each type of writing are also included.

•Color-coding Chart: Students color code writing to ensure it has all required elements...and help the teacher with grading!

•10 Writing papers: B&W Pumpkin border, Color pumpkin border, Bones border, Color Halloween dots blank border, Color Halloween dots filled border, Spider web border, Web/Haunted house border, Ghost paper, Ghost shape, Pumpkin shape

Creation Stations

1. Zalloween Zentangle
2. Watercolor Witch Caldron
3. Spooky Sky Value Paintings
4. Mosaics
5. DIY Dot-to-Dot
6. Dots & Squiggles
7. Edible Blood
8. Fake Scars & Blood
9. The Starry Night
10. Edible Webs
11. Spirit Animal
12. Idiom Illustration
13. Create a Corn Maze
14. Pop Art Candy
15. Haunted House Ad
16. Trash to Treasure Mask

STEM/STEAM Challenges

1. Skeleton Bridge
2. Flying Witch Challenge
3. Spider Web Challenge
4. Paper Batplane Challenge
5. Flying Ghost Challenge
6. Haunted House Tower
7. Punkin’ Chunkin’ Catapult
8. Costume Contest
9. Extra! Extra! Costume Contest
10. Fall Scavenger Hunt
11. Fall Fashion Costume Contest
12. Self-Portrait Individual Poster

Minute to Win It Games

1. Candy Corn Stand Up
2. Cookie Stack It Up
3. Eye Got You, Boo
4. Eyeball Bounce
5. Ghost With the Most
6. Candy Sort
7. Don’t Drop the Ghosts
8. Candy Corn Tower
9. Goon Spoon
10. Halloween Scramble
11. Ghosts Floating in the Night
12. Cookie Monster
13. Boo Building
14. Suck It Up
15. Get the Ghost
16. Monster Chomp
17. Mak a Mummy
18. Ghost Busters
19. Chopstick Race
20. Trick or Treat
21. Sticky Face
22. Eyeball Bounce
23. Monster Chomp
24. Noggin Goblins
25. You’re a Star
26. Little Tweezy
27. Pumpkin Ring Toss
28. Ka-Broom!

Just for Fun Sheets

1. Halloween Crack the Code: crack the code to solve the Halloween jokes
2. Halloween Alphabet Game: earn points by thinking of Halloween words
3. HALLOWEEN Word Mine: make words with these letters
4. DAY OF THE DEAD Word Mine: make words with these letters
5. FRANKENSTEIN Word Mine: make words with these letters
6. Halloween Mad Lib: fill in the words to make a silly (or spooky!) story
7. Halloween Hink Pink: solve the Hink Pink phrases
8. Halloween Word Search: two variations are included-one easy; one hard
9. Halloween Word Scramble: unscramble letters and make Halloween words
10. Sugar Skull Coloring Sheets: two versions are included
11. The Starry Night Coloring Page: color this picture by Vincent Van Gogh
12. Candy Personality Test: This fun personality inventory lets you discover what candy is your personality type
13. ATTACHED: The Starry Night Block Collaboration Poster: This enormous poster divides the artwork into 25 full-page sections. Each student colors one page, then you put them together to create a collaborative work of art.

The Ultimate Halloween Party Game

This ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN PARTY GAME has it all! Sure to bring a fresh twist to your Halloween party, this Jeopardy-style digital game includes Halloween-themed Trivia, Mixed Up (scrambled words), Think Fast (like 5 Secord Rule), Who Am I (like 20 questions), Minute to Win It, and Act It Out (like Headbandz). This insanely fun variety of games keeps kids from getting bored with one game, makes every kid happy because they all get to play their favorite, and ensures that kids have a blast!

Ways to Use

•Pick and choose which activities you want to do...or do them all!

•Integrate art into your reading and writing lessons.

•Have a Halloween Celebration Day...or week!

•Set up stations around your room.

•Rotate from room to room to complete one activity in each room.

•Do one activity each day for a week.

•Use for Fun Friday, Morning Meeting, or for your curriculum-based activity.

•Do activities as a whole class.

•Can even be used by a sub!

•Do you teach art? This includes 13 different, easy-to-implement art activities.

•Do you teach gifted? Lots of choices are available to differentiate.

How I Use in My Classroom

I like to work with other teachers in my school and let the students rotate from room to room. We start by watching the videos about Halloween and Day of the Dead and doing the Research Activity to compare/contrast the two holidays in our homerooms. Students then rotate to the following activities for approximately 45 minutes-1 hour each. When finished, they come back to their homeroom to do the Ultimate Halloween Party Game!

•Room 1: Minute to Win It and Writing

•Room 2: Sugar Skulls passage and Art Activity

•Room 3: STEM

•Room 4: Creation Stations

Related Resources

Check out the “Halloween” section of the Megan Memories store for these related resources:

Halloween Resources:

• Halloween Activity Kit
• Halloween STEM Bundle
• Halloween & Day of the Dead ELA Bundle (Read, Write, Research)
• Halloween Creation Stations (great for MakerSpace!)
• Halloween Fun Sheets
• Halloween & Day of the Dead Writing Bundle
• Halloween & Day of the Dead Compare Contrast Research Activity
• Day of the Dead Activity Kit
• Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Art
• Day of the Dead Art Integration
• Halloween Special Effects Makeup (Fake Scars & Edible Blood)
• The ULTIMATE Halloween Party Game!
• Halloween Minute to Win It
• Halloween Zentangle Art Activity
• Halloween Idiom Illustration Activity
• Haunted House Ad & Art
• Halloween Games Bundle
• Halloween MEGA Unit! (137 pages + 4 PowerPoints of Halloween and Day of the Dead engaging reading, writing, research, art, creation, STEM, STEAM, games, worksheets, and activities)

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