Monster Draw!

Since today was Halloween...and the kids were hyped up on candy from their classroom parties, and we had a Halloween parade at the end of the day, I ended up forgoing my planned lessons with my 2nd graders and teaching them how to play the dice roll drawing games I have for free time.  In lieu of Halloween, I went with the Monster Draw that I found on Pinterest!  After the students drew their first monster, they had to either do a second Monster or add a background!  This kept them busy all class, on task, and working in groups! (Here is a second Monster Draw sheet!)

I think this one is my favorite!

Happy Halloween!

The district I work at is very lucky because we are still allowed to celebrate Halloween, Christmas, etc. Every Halloween the Elementary grade levels have a parade of costumes in our big gym and all their family comes to watch. I went as "Arachna-Woman"! Or spider woman to the little kids!

Paper Mache Haunted Houses!

This last Tuesday and Thursday during After School, I had the kids make haunted houses!  I bought these paper mache houses from Nasco, I believe.  I pulled out all my scrapbook type paper, paint, pipe cleaners, pom poms, and fake spider webs and let the kids go to town!  They turned out AWESOME!  And, to top it all off...I have about 5 students left who wanted to work a 3rd day on them to add fences and such...I LOVE it when students tell me they WANT to work an extra day to add more details!

I LOVE the huge spider on this little house!

The kids even used hot glue guns without any accidents!  I'd say that's an achievement!

Afterwards, I had three houses left, so I brought them home and invited a fellow art teacher and friend over for a craft night and we decorated our houses with scrap booking paper!

I plan on adding some foam bats and possibly some pipe cleaner spiders...

The kids really enjoyed this so at Christmas time I will do this project again, but we will turn them into ginger bread houses!