Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers
Playful projects, ponderable puzzles, and printable pranks.
By Chris Dunmire | Posted 10/28/18 | Updated 1/25/22
"Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development..." —Margo Georgiadis
Dear Teachers,
October is a creatively glorious month in the classroom, as it ushers in the analogous holiday season spanning through the New Year. The end of October begins with Halloween, November brings Thanksgiving, December counts down to Christmas, and New Year's Day kicks off a brand new year filled with possibilities.
During these festive months, a printer, card stock, colored construction paper, markers, crayons, scissors, and glue are the tools a child's (and adult's!) imagination can use for endless creative fun.
Let my Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers help inspire some of this creative fun. This book contains an assortment of playful projects, ponderable puzzles, and printable pranks you can use in the classroom during the Halloween season to inspire and amuse your students for creative writing, expressive art, and other classroom projects.
Use these playful printables at your discretion, and feel free to incorporate them into your lesson plans as introductory prompts into more complex assignments.
Happy creating!
Spooky Table of Contents
Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom | 5
Introduction to Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers
How to Draw a Pumpkin Cartoony Lesson | 6
Easy Cartoony Drawing Lesson
Vumpire Teeth Cutout | 7-8
Witty Wordplay with a Baseball Twist
Halloween Word Search Puzzle | 9
Traditional Find-a-Word Puzzle
Happy Jack Coloring Page | 10
Crayon Creativity
Pumpkin Patch Kit Cutouts | 11
Novelty Joke Transdermal Application
Punkin Coloring Page | 12
Happy Jack's Wilder Cousin
Scare-rots Carrot Seed Packet Cutout | 13
Novelty Joke Seed Packet
Halloween Ornaments Coloring Page | 14
Halloween is the Beginning of Christmas
Jack-o'-lantern Cutouts | 15
Playful Ornaments and Gift Tags
Pumpkin Poetry and Story Book Cutouts | 16-20
Halloween Writing Prompt & Book Making Project
The World's Hardest Halloween Puzzle | 21
Unsolvable, No-Find-a-Word Puzzle (IMPORTANT: No Words are Hidden in the Grid. This is a TRICK puzzle!)
October 28, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, contact
Chris Dunmire
Creativity Portal
www.creativity-portal.com
Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers
Chris Dunmire
(October 28, 2018) — Creativity Portal founder Chris Dunmire is giving elementary school teachers a treat for Halloween this week.
She's giving away free copies of her new printable activity book, Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers. The 21-page book contains a celebratory assortment of playful projects, ponderable puzzles, and printable pranks to use in the classroom during Halloween week to inspire creative thinking, art, and writing in students.
"Halloween is such a fun holiday brimming with creative energy." Dunmire says. "Teachers can use the excitement kids have for the season when developing lesson plans. A printer, card stock, colored construction paper, markers, crayons, scissors, and glue are the tools a child's (and adult's!) imagination can use for endless creative and educational fun."
Dunmire is offering a free download of Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers this week through Halloween day on Wednesday, October 31, 2018, through the Creativity Portal Web site.
Dunmire is a long-time artist, writer, and humorist who founded the award-winning Creativity Portal Web site in 2000.
Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers
Chris Dunmire
Printable PDF e-book
Available October 28, 2018
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