And Halloween is one of the high points. I love walking my grandkids around their neighborhood as we go trick-or-treating, and try my best not to eat too much of their candy.
Most years I even try to dress up for the occasion, although having a beard does somewhat limit my options. My go-to costume recently has been none other than Bob Ross!
Another favorite thing I have done is to create Halloween-themed educational activities with Google tools including:
🎃 Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides
👻 Halloween Rebus Stories with Emojis and Google Docs
🦇 Halloween Drag and Drop Poetry with Google Drawings
💀 Skittles and Google Sheets Math Activities
For convenience I decided to pull all of them together in one blog post. See below for details on each activity and links to the resources and templates.
🎃 Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides
In this Google Slides activity:
- Students get a blank pumpkin and slides full of eyes, mouths, arms, feet, and more.
- They copy and paste the items onto their pumpkin to create their own Jack-O-Lantern.
- If they want they can add their own items, shapes, and images as well.
- When done, they write about their Jack-O-Lantern and share their creation.
- Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides - Blog post link

👻 Rebus Stories with Google Docs Emojis
In this Google Docs activity:
- Students write a "Rebus Story" which is a combination of words and pictures.
- In the document they are provided with a collection of Halloween-themed emojis.
- As they write their story they can copy and paste the emojis into their story.
- If they need different ones, they can add new ones from the "Insert" then "Emoji" menus.
- When done they can share their creation.
- Create Halloween Rebus Stories with Emojis and Google Docs - Blog post link
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🦇 Drag and Drop Poetry with Google Drawings
In this Google Drawings activity:
- Students create a drag-and-drop poem.
- On the left side of the canvas there are 100 common words.
- On the right side of the canvas there are 88 Halloween-themed words.
- Students can drag and drop the words onto the canvas to create their poem.
- If needed they can add their own words.
- When done they can share their poetry creation.
- Halloween Drag and Drop Poetry with Google Drawings - Blog post link

💀 Skittles and Google Sheets Math Activities
In this Google Sheets activity:
- Students use Skittles to practice math skills including estimating, counting, comparing, adding, dividing, and graphing.
- Students have a bag of Skittle and the spreadsheet takes them step-by-step through the math activities.
- The sheet checks their work as they go by using conditional formatting to color the answer red if they are incorrect and green if the answer is right.
- Skittles and Google Sheets Math Activities - Blog post link

🏁 Conclusion
If you do any of these activities I would love to hear how they go and see some of your students' creations. I welcome any suggestions for improvement or extensions to make these activities even better!
Post by Eric Curts
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