Halloween Story Starters? Paint Activities?

[Russ Hockenbury]

I recently did a Halloween episode of my Good Computer Kids web series, called "I Was A Preteen CAPSYbara" that I plan on showing the last couple weeks of October to my 3rd through 5th graders.

 

Good Computer Kids - I Was a Preteen CAPSYbara

 

After that however, I am looking for a decent Halloween activity to do with them. We have done jack-o-lanterns in Paint in the past, but I am looking for something a little more intricate this year. Ideas?

 

 

 

 

[Jodi Helms]

I am working on the kids making a comic out of a picture of a pumpkin they searched for and download from the internet.  My fourth grade students will be doing this toward the end of the month.  I like this because they get quite a bit of talking in, and they have to use their imagination.  I am not done with it yet, but I will upload an example.  I am using a program called Comic Life, but I am sure you could use just about anything. Let me know if you can't see it. I will try to put it in a different format and send it that way.  

[Elaine Doolittle]

How about having the kids create a Jack o'Lantern in Excel? See this post for the basic idea. You could even have the fifth graders write the directions for the third graders to follow.

[Elaine Doolittle]

Another idea might be to try doing animations on a Halloween topic. I used this site with my second graders and was amazed at the animations they came up with (no assigned topic). I'm sure even the fifth graders would enjoy this.

[Russ Hockenbury]

Wow, I use abcya.com all the time and had never stumbled across the animation part. That's awesome!

[Elizabeth Thompson]

Thanks for the abcya animation clue. It is easy to use and really neat.  I can't wait to use it.

[Elaine Doolittle]

I subscribe to Barbara Feldman's Surfing the Net with Kids newsletter and this week's topic is Halloween Writing Prompts.