Parade

• Hold a costume parade on Halloween day or the Friday before. Invite children to bring their costumes to school, and invite parents to come watch. In the afternoon, have all children dress up and walk either through the school halls or around the outside of the school. Create a class float by dressing up a wagon with signs, and put a CD player of Halloween music in it to play as you parade around. Bring in some dollar store hats and props for children who don't bring a costume.
  
  

Trick-or-Treating Practice

• Talk with students about how to be safe on Halloween night. Talk about staying with adults and how to be safe in your costume by wearing reflective tape and avoiding masks with poor visibility. Create books about Halloween safety. Older children can write and illustrate a story about what to do on Halloween night, while younger children can put on a skit or simply draw pictures about safety. Finally, do a role-playing exercise. Divide students into trick-or-treaters, parents and people passing out candy. Have children act out safe and unsafe behaviors so they can learn the difference.
  
  

Measuring Pumpkins

• Use pumpkins to teach and reinforce lessons about numbers and measurements. Bring in a variety of gourds and pumpkins. For younger children, first ask them to count the pumpkins, then sort them based on shape or arrange them in height order. Older children can measure the circumferences and weights of the pumpkins, then graph the results. When the lessons are done, give the children markers and ask them to draw a math equation or spelling word onto the pumpkin. Help children carve these shapes out to make jack-o'-lanterns.
  
  

Macaroni Skeletons

• Show the class drawings or models of a human skeleton. Younger children might be frightened by anything too realistic, so line drawings will work better for students under 7 or 8. Pass out black paper and bowls filled with several varieties of dry pasta. Let children examine the skeleton drawings, then create their own by gluing the pasta onto the paper. Students can create either one part of the body or an entire skeleton.