Halloween Lesson Plan
Time: 40 mins - 1 hour
Objectives: Talking about Halloween and popular Halloween characters.
Warm Up and Maintenance:
This lesson will start quite differently than usual lessons as we want to get the
atmosphere of Halloween started right from the beginning of class.
1. Setting the atmosphere ideas:
lights - turn off some lights and close curtains to make the room darker.
Place some jack-o-lanterns around the room.
rearrange the furniture
have some eerie music playing in the background
hang decorations around the classroom, such as bats and ghost crafts (if
you do with other classes you can build up the decorations as you do
crafts each lesson)
2. Enter the room and play "Feel in the Boxes"
Before class, we prepare some cardboard boxes. These are going to hide things that
the students have to feel and guess what they are. Of course, being Halloween, the
objects inside the boxes are going to be creepy! We prepare the boxes by cutting a
hole in one side, just large enough to put your arm through. You can even put on a
flap material to cover the hole to stop prying eyes. Inside the boxes we place some
"Halloween" type objects which you can pick up in discount stores, party stores and
supermarkets, such as:
plastic bats, spiders, etc.
goo or slime
jello / jelly shaped as a brain
spider webs
cooked, cold spaghetti noodles (worms)
peeled grapes (eye balls)
fake fur (monster hair)
over cooked rice (maggots)
tofu (can be anything gross)
dried pasta (teeth or bones)
toes (mini hot dogs)
Everyone wait outside the classroom until it is time to go in. Stand at the door and
as each student enters say "Happy Halloween!" and have them reply "Happy
Halloween". Then we allow the students to walk around the classroom feeling inside
the boxes and trying to guess what each object is. This is bound to cause a lot a
screams and laughter but everyone will thoroughly enjoy it and it will be well worth
the effort of setting it up. Finally, everyone will sit down and we will ask what they
think is in each box (e.g. "I think it's worms!") and then take out each item to show
everyone what it really is.
New Learning and Practice:
1. Halloween Match-up
Students need to match pictures with their names. There will be 2 teams. Each team
has 5 minutes. Then we check the task and ask them to repeat these words all
together.
2. What am I?
Students will have practice using descriptive words as well as learning Halloween
vocabulary with this simple game. Simply give one student a card with a
Halloween picture on it (we will use words from the previous game). Then we
give student one to two minutes to describe the picture to the class. The goal is to
get the class to guess the object without telling them what it is. The class member
who first guesses the object correctly gets a point and his team too. Play until
everyone has had a chance to describe an object, and the team with the most points
wins.
3. Scary Stories
We get our students to think creatively with some scary story starters and
Halloween transitions fit for a spooky tale. There will be a competition between
two teams again. Each team gets a card with the beginning of the story. The task is
to create a story, using even scary noise, but each student should tell the sentence.
So the 1 student begins, the 2 continues… Wins the team, which story is the
scariest and has a logical beginning and ending.
4. Halloween Song
Michael Jackson – Thriller
It's close to midnight and
Something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight
that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes
the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as
horror looks you right between the eyes,
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from
the beast about strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer,
thriller tonight
You hear the door slam
and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand
and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope
that this is just imagination
But all the while you hear
the creature creepin' up behind
You're out of time
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance
against the thing with forty eyes
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside of killer,
thriller tonight
Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life
They're out to get you,
there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together
All thru the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen,
I'll make you see
That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more
than any ghost would dare to try
Girl, this is thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight
and share a killer, diller, chiller
Thriller here tonight
Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzy ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
