| A fun school Halloween party begins with exciting | | | | students' heads when they step inside or a small table |
| classroom decorations. The best classroom decoration | | | | with a bowl full of something gooey are a few ideas |
| ideas produce big impact with little effort and expense. | | | | for how to decorate the haunted corner. |
| Table Decorating Ideas | | | | Halloween Activity Table |
| If you are serving food, use a bright orange paper | | | | Set up a table with fun activity choices for your |
| table cloth to cover the tables. The solid paper table | | | | students. Provide mini pumpkins that students can paint |
| cloth gives students the option of drawing Halloween | | | | and then take home. A stack of colorful foam sheets |
| designs on it. Create an easy table centerpiece using | | | | can be used to create Halloween decorations that can |
| an arrangement of Halloween balloons in black, orange | | | | be re-used year after year. Suggest that the students |
| and white. Tie the balloons together and add | | | | cut an oval or rectangular background for their |
| Halloween images, lollipops or plastic spiders to fill out | | | | decoration and then provide Halloween themed |
| the centerpiece. | | | | stencils of cats, pumpkins, bats, owls, moons and |
| Simple Streamer Ghosts | | | | witches that they can trace, cut out and glue to the |
| No school Halloween party is complete without | | | | background to create a Halloween scene. |
| classroom decorations that hang from the ceiling. For a | | | | Edible Classroom Decorations |
| simple classroom decorating idea, start with a white | | | | For a yummy classroom decoration idea, offer a plate |
| rectangle of construction paper and tape 2 ends | | | | of simple muffins that students can decorate with |
| together to make a tube with a fairly large diameter. | | | | tubes of colored icing and then eat! Another edible |
| Then, make long white streamers using crepe paper | | | | activity is the spider pop. Have the students cover |
| streamers or cut up white plastic trash bags. Attach | | | | lollipop tops with squares of black tissue paper. Then, |
| the streamers to the bottom underside of the | | | | show them how to fasten the tissue paper with 4 |
| construction paper tube with tape. Complete the ghost | | | | black pipe cleaners wrapped around once so that 4 |
| by drawing a scary or funny face on one side of the | | | | legs stick out evenly on either side. They can then glue |
| tube. Hang five or more streamer ghosts around the | | | | wiggly eyes in the center of the pipe cleaners to make |
| classroom. | | | | eyes. |
| The Haunted Corner | | | | These fun classroom decoration ideas for a |
| If you have enough classroom space, create a | | | | Halloween party require little more than the classroom |
| haunted corner for younger students to play in during | | | | craft supplies on hand. Add a plate of cut veggies with |
| the Halloween party. The haunted corner can be as | | | | a choice of dips, something to drink and a couple of |
| simple as a lightweight black curtain or piece of fabric | | | | fun games, and you've got the recipe for a smashing |
| hung from ceiling to floor with some spooky items | | | | classroom Halloween party! |
| behind it. Fake spider webs hanging down to brush the | | | | |