Halloween Homeschool Fun is a day devoted to candy and costumes in our home.
The kids think it’s grand fun when we get to spend the day playing games, dressing up, and walking door-to-door in our friendly neighbourhood visiting friends, asking for candy, experiencing a neighbor’s magic trick, and being entranced by clever costumes.
This year we won’t be trick or treating. No surprise there. (I’ll especially miss the community spirit.) But we can still find a way to have Halloween Homeschool fun!
So what to do to make this year fun?
Here are some games we incorporate into our fun day:
- We will make pretzel and cheese witches brooms, hot dog mummies or spiders, and orange pumpkins.
- We will enjoy everything orange, cheezies, cheddar, and orange crush with our quiet reading time.
- We’ll make caramel apples (my son has been learning to make candy this year.)
- We’ll play target practice with slimy, googly eyes.
- We’ll create a pumpkin watercolour.
- We will do a candy treasure hunt.
- We will use Halloween writing prompts to create silly stories.
- We will watch the life cycle of a pumpkin.
- We will learn the origins of Halloween and why some people don’t prefer this day.
- We can make a Pumpkin play-do.
- We can use Pumpkin times tables printables.
- Naturally, we will carve a Pumpkin.
- We can watch Goosebumps & Charlie Brown.
- We can attend online spooky science experiments.
If this year has taught us anything, it is flexibility & pivot. We can teach our kids to have fun in new ways.
(Oh, and I bought a whole bunch of candy!)
