Sample Halloween Classroom Party (Approximately 60 minutes)
- Read a Halloween Book (5 mins)
- 4 Stations All Going Simultaneously (8-10 mins per station)
- Simple Craft
- Mummy Wrapping
- Pin the Spider on the Web
- Halloween Ring Toss
- Freeze Dance to Halloween Music (5-8 mins)
- Read Halloween Book (5 mins)
- All Students should leave with a prize(s)
Halloween/Valentine Party Ideas
The ideas listed below should be modified for younger and older classes.
Bingo • Musical Chairs • Freeze Dance •Jenga • Cup Stacking • Name That Tune (With Buzzers) • Pin The Tail On The Donkey • Spider Or Heart, etc • Decorate A Pumpkin • Make Bracelets with Pipe Cleaners & Beads • Holiday Card Making Station • Bozo Bucket Game • Ring Toss • Slingshot Game • Halloween Pumpkin Egg Hunt • Valentine's Day Egg Hunt • Limbo With Music • Make Knot Pillows For The Classroom • Kindness Board ( each student picks a paper pumpkin/heart with a classmates name pre-written on it and they write something they like/positive about that friend and then tapes it on the board) • Would You Rather Questions • Holiday Trivia Where Teams Face Off With Game Buzzers • Escape Room Activity • Left/ Right Story Group Activity (read a story and kids are in a large circle; each time they hear the word right or left they pass a box they are holding in that direction and at the end they open the box for a surprise) • Guess How Much A Pumpkin Or Heart Decoration Weighs • Guess How Many Candy Corn Or Hearts Are In A Jar (cannot open it as food/candy is NOT allowed) • Make Slime • Plinko Game • Small Baggo Game • Bowling Game • Spider Race (blow spiders with a straw) • Eye Ball or Heart Race (you place an eye ball or heart on a spoon and race without dropping it) • Check Pinterest For Craft Ideas, Baggo Game • Bowling Game & Mystery Boxes (an object is placed inside a box and the kids can only feel it with their hands and guess what it is by touch only).
Mural Paper
There are 2 areas in the school where you may get mural paper, if needed to cover classroom tables or for decorating/craft purposes. One mural paper station is located right outside the Art Room and the other station is in the 5th Grade hallway.
The ideas listed below should be modified for younger and older classes.
Bingo • Musical Chairs • Freeze Dance •Jenga • Cup Stacking • Name That Tune (With Buzzers) • Pin The Tail On The Donkey • Spider Or Heart, etc • Decorate A Pumpkin • Make Bracelets with Pipe Cleaners & Beads • Holiday Card Making Station • Bozo Bucket Game • Ring Toss • Slingshot Game • Halloween Pumpkin Egg Hunt • Valentine's Day Egg Hunt • Limbo With Music • Make Knot Pillows For The Classroom • Kindness Board ( each student picks a paper pumpkin/heart with a classmates name pre-written on it and they write something they like/positive about that friend and then tapes it on the board) • Would You Rather Questions • Holiday Trivia Where Teams Face Off With Game Buzzers • Escape Room Activity • Left/ Right Story Group Activity (read a story and kids are in a large circle; each time they hear the word right or left they pass a box they are holding in that direction and at the end they open the box for a surprise) • Guess How Much A Pumpkin Or Heart Decoration Weighs • Guess How Many Candy Corn Or Hearts Are In A Jar (cannot open it as food/candy is NOT allowed) • Make Slime • Plinko Game • Small Baggo Game • Bowling Game • Spider Race (blow spiders with a straw) • Eye Ball or Heart Race (you place an eye ball or heart on a spoon and race without dropping it) • Check Pinterest For Craft Ideas, Baggo Game • Bowling Game & Mystery Boxes (an object is placed inside a box and the kids can only feel it with their hands and guess what it is by touch only).
Mural Paper
There are 2 areas in the school where you may get mural paper, if needed to cover classroom tables or for decorating/craft purposes. One mural paper station is located right outside the Art Room and the other station is in the 5th Grade hallway.
Sample Valentine's Day Classroom Party
(Approximately 60 minutes)
(Approximately 60 minutes)
- Read a Valentine's Day Book (5 mins)
- 4 Stations All Going Simultaneously (8-10 mins per station)
- Simple Craft
- Limbo
- Bracelet Making Station
- Valentine's Day Card Making Station
- Guess How Many Hearts Are In a Jar (5 mins)
- Name That Tune Game with Buzzers (8-10 mins)
- All Students should leave with a prize(s)
