These are all Americans
As you know, the attitude towards All Saints Day in Russia is not clear: the State Duma tried to ban it in schools and kindergartens, priests speak out against it, but psychologists, on the contrary, believe that our lives lack bright emotions and carnival, so this holiday is a good one a way to distract yourself and relieve stress.
Every English teacher knows that the topic “Holidays in English-speaking countries” cannot be imagined without a story about Halloween. To celebrate and stay within the framework of the educational program, October 31 can be made a day of immersion in English-speaking culture.
The Phoenix school in the capital did just that this year - the last day before the holidays was declared English language day. The children decorated the school, participated in a costume competition, and learned new words related to the holiday. Unusually scary names of dishes in English awaited them in the dining room. School director Tatyana Esina says that they decided to respond to the children’s request and have fun, especially before the holidays, when none of the children are particularly inclined to study.
Phoenix School walls
It would be a good idea to add elements of regional studies to the holiday program - talk in English about the origin of Halloween, “brew” a magic potion with your students, at the same time repeating the names of fruits and vegetables, watch a themed cartoon or learn a song.
Halloween Scenarios
There are dozens of entertainments for Halloween; we have chosen the most original ones, which differ not only in names, but also in their unique thematic atmosphere and ease of organization.
Ghost Hunt
The game resembles catch-up. From among the guests, they choose someone who wants to become a hunter and blindfold him, while the rest are ghosts. The hunter must catch up with the ghost, as soon as he has done this - the caught one begins to cry pitifully. If the hunter manages to understand who he caught, the heroes change places.
Sinister bag
To play, various “scary” things are put into a small bag: gummy bugs, pumice stones, slime, etc. The child puts his hand into the bag and feels for one of the objects. His task is to tell a scary story involving this object. At the end of the story, the guys guess what it is about.
Trick-and-treat (tricks and treats)
You need to prepare three stacks of cards. Each of which is numbered. The first pile of cards are prize numbers, the second are tasks, the third are predictions. The player draws a card with the prize number, after which he is asked if he wants to compete for it. If the player agrees, then he draws a card with the task, and then completes it. If the player succeeds, he receives both a prize and a prediction, and if not, only a prediction.
Mummy
A draw for the strong-willed. In advance, the room is made into a crypt, where the person who will play the mummy lies down on the sofa. A bowl of yogurt is placed on the mummy's head and a sheet is covered, and the lights in the room are turned off. After this, excursions to the crypt are organized for guests. The presenter talks about the mummy and runs the guest’s hand over parts of the body. When talking about the face and eyes, the presenter sharply lowers the guests' hand into a bowl of yogurt. The main thing here is a good storyteller.
Hit the pumpkin
A bowl with a wide “neck” is cut out of a pumpkin. Line the inside of the pumpkin with baking paper or foil. Guests at a distance of 2-3 meters should throw coins into the pumpkins. If you hit, you get candy for each throw.
Guess the weight of the pumpkin
Guests take turns lifting the pumpkin and writing down the expected weight on a piece of paper. The one who indicates the closest number wins.
Pumpkin bowling
Create bowling pins from empty bottles, weighing them down lightly with sand or grain. Mark the floor where the children will launch the pumpkin into the bowling pins.
Pumpkin Explosion
You will need several dozen balls, into which you put a small prize (or a number to which the prize is assigned) and inflate. All the balls can be attached to a wall or a sheet of foam that is shaped like a pumpkin, and players must use a needle to select a ball and pop it with the needle.
Hungry monster
You need to cut out a monster template from a large sheet of cardboard, making a huge hole in place of the mouth. The children's task is to feed the monster with marbles or balls at a distance of several meters.
Who's worse?
Each participant is given a ball, and guests must draw a scary grimace on the ball with a marker.
Apple bobbin
Water is poured into a basin and a dozen apples are thrown into it. The task of the participants is to pull out more apples from the bowl with their hands behind their backs using their mouths.
Devil's tail
All participants have a thread (rope) tied to their waist, with a pencil attached to the end. The players' task is to put the pencil into the bottle. Whoever is first wins.
Letter from a maniac
The game is suitable for older children who already know how to handle scissors or stationery items. The task is to cut letters from a newspaper (magazine) and compose them into a letter with a terrible message.
Catch the witch
Among all the guests you need to find 2 hunters and 2 witches. The last ones are given bells. The hunters are blindfolded, and the witches run away to the rest of the participants. The hunters' task is to catch the witches and not make mistakes.
Dracula's Meal
Participants are given glasses of red liquid (tomato or cherry juice, for example). The players' task is to drink everything in the glass faster than others. Whoever wins is Dracula, who receives a medal and a cape for the whole evening.
Collect a Halloween Hero
Preschoolers or kindergarten students can easily cope with a competition where they need to quickly assemble a picture from its elements. The game is similar to a regular puzzle.
Guess the ghost
Guests are divided into 2 teams and taken to rooms. They put a white sheet on each person and, one by one, let the opponents into the room. The one who was let in needs to scare the players with the sound “U-oo-oo-oo”, and the opponents must guess the participant by the sound. Whoever can guess more players wins.
Bat
For the competition, you can use either soft toys in the shape of bats or cardboard templates. One player hides them throughout the room, and the other must find the hidden mice using hot and cold clues. Whoever manages to find the most bats wins.
Looking for a couple
Print out some symmetrical Halloween shapes and cut them in half. The players' task is to find their match among the guests.
Scary monster
The game can be played for players of any age. First, participants draw one element, for example, a head. Next, the sheet is folded and passed to another player, who draws the torso. And so on. The result will be a “well, very scary” monster.
Creepy makeup
For the game you will need a lot of cosmetics, with which children will paint the most terrible makeup. After everyone has been painted with funny faces, you can hold a vote for the best makeup.
Third wheel
To play the game, print out a lot of Halloween-themed pictures and a few inappropriate ones. Place the pictures on the table in groups of 3, where 2 suit the theme and one does not. Children must choose the one that is extra.
Competition for teenagers "SELFIE"
The goal of the game is to take the most original scary Halloween-themed selfie. After this, you can arrange an online vote or print out SELFIES of the heroes to decorate the room.
Terrible howl
The idea is simple - make a terrible and eerie howl. Whoever makes it louder and more frightening wins the competition.
Will-o'-the-wisp
All players sit in a circle. One is given a flashlight that is turned on. To the accompaniment of languid, disturbing music, people take turns passing the flashlight to each other. When the music stops, the one with the flashlight is out. The game continues until only one participant remains.
Competitions with sayings
The presenter prepares in advance a number of popular sayings related to evil spirits. He reads out half of the saying, and the children must continue. Here are examples of sayings:
- Not a candle for God, not a damn poker.
- Still waters run deep.
- The devil should go to the wedding, but he's afraid of the priest.
- He's afraid like hell of incense.
- Sell your soul to the devil.
Costume competition
In this case, you don’t have to focus on witches and zombies: let the costumes have any theme, but they will be made in one color - for example, black or orange. You can ask the guys to make them from the same material. Children can make costumes from recycled materials, giving used materials new life.
The culmination of the holiday can be a fashion show, where bats in costumes made from garbage bags or witches in dresses made from plastic bottles will “fly” along the catwalk.
On the eve of October 31, the Samara school “Intelligence Plus” held a costume day “Russian Halloween”. Many children chose costumes of Russian heroes - Ilya Muromtsy and Zmei Gorynych walked along the school corridors.
Arina, the mother of an Intellect student, says that their family celebrates Halloween every year:
“I like this holiday if you make it light and fun, without creepiness. Pumpkins, funny skeletons, bats - very atmospheric.”
Arina and her daughter at a family photo shoot in honor of Halloween
Halloween Experiments
Witch's Potion
Pour 1-2 liters of water into a plate. Next, add 2 tablespoons of starch and mix thoroughly. Then scatter small figures of spiders in a plate and drop iodine into the liquid.
Hungry Vampire
Draw a vampire on a small piece of paper. Take a glass, turn it over and tape the sheet with the vampire to the edge inside. Place the glass on a plate and pour the red liquid underneath. Place a small lit candle inside the glass by the leaf.
Dancing Skeletons
Make small skeletons out of paper, cut them out and glue the bottom part with glue to a table or hard surface. Next, take the ball, rub it on a blanket or wool, and then bring it to the figures.
funny monster
Draw a scary face on a food grade plastic glove. Put a glove on your hand and put on a puppet show.
Craft Halloween Candles
Pour ¾ of water into a transparent glass, on the side of which something thematic has been previously drawn. It is better to tint the water with dye. Next, you need to add vegetable oil there. Cut a circle out of plastic that will be slightly smaller than the diameter of the glass. Make a hole in the middle of the plastic and lower the thread tied to the plastic into it. Dip one end into vegetable oil, and take the other outside and set it on fire.
Bat
Paint the inside of a liter jar with orange paint, and draw a scary face with a black marker. Using wire, attach it to the edge of the can with a hook at the end. Attach a small cut out bat to the hook, so you will have an original craft for the holiday.
Ghost Egg
Place a raw egg in a glass of vinegar for a day. After this, the shell will dissolve and the egg will become elastic and dense. Draw a face on it with a marker, turn off the light and shine it with a flashlight from behind.
Pumpkin on a stick
Take a stick with a sharp end and lubricate it with liquid soap. Next, you need to take a balloon and lubricate the base of the puncture and the opposite place with liquid soap. This way you can easily stick the stick into the balloon and then inflate it. The balloon won't burst, and you'll end up with a pumpkin on a stick. Use an orange ball with a face drawn on it.
The other side of the pumpkin
Not all schools are ready to hold a holiday of “evil spirits”. Vera Bar, teacher-organizer of Moscow school No. 2120, says that this year they didn’t even remember about Halloween - they were preparing for Grandparents’ Day, editing video congratulations.
“In our country we have many of our holidays - bright, beautiful and kind. We have no shortage of them or school activities. That’s why we don’t think about whether to hold Halloween or not - we’d have time to do everything else.”
Many parents believe that it is better to pay more attention to the original Russian holidays, both secular and religious, and not to be influenced by Western culture.
There are also those who adhere to a neutral position.
“I am a believer, but I will not go to the barricades if there is a Halloween party at school. I’ll make costumes for my daughters, carve pumpkins and at the same time tell how this holiday came about and what it means,” says father of three daughters Alexander.
Web and spiders
Our web and spider
A web of twigs and twine held together with hot glue. The spider's legs are made from poplar branches; they have interesting joints, similar to joints. And the body of the spider is made of hot glue. The legs were placed on the parchment and hot glue was poured in layers.
They let each layer dry so that the spider would turn out plump.
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Publication from Elena Selivanova (@daynotes.ru) Oct 26, 2021 at 8:10 PDT
Web for decoration
If you want to decorate your home in an unusual way, this spider web “ornament” will suit you.
How to make a giant web?
Ever cut out snowflakes from napkins? This decor is made using the same principle, only from large black garbage bags. First, the seams of the bag are cut off. Then a square blank is made. It folds into a thin triangle. Squares and rectangles are cut out on it opposite each other.
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When a sufficient number of webs are ready, they can be stapled together and hung like curtains.
Paper web
I'll show you step by step how to construct everything:
- Fold two black sheets like an accordion.
- Fold one of them in half.
- On the side where the edges are, cut out rectangles.
- Make one, then exactly the same pattern and another sheet.
- Connect. Glue or sew.
Such a web can be decorated with a spider.
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Spiders
Let's look at simple and familiar things as materials for crafts. For example, plastic straws and plates can turn into spiders.
- Bend each tube at the bend (where it has an accordion).
- Cut the back of the tube at an angle of 45⁰.
- Glue the tube to the bottom of the plate. You need 4 tubes on one side and the other.
- The craft is ready. All that remains is to glue on the spider's eyes. You can buy them, or you can make them from cardboard or foamiran.
It is better to use black dishes. This way the products will look more colorful.
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Spider webs
Wrap yarn dipped in glue around the inflated balloon.
When the yarn dries, all we have to do is deflate the ball and decorate the craft with small spiders. Read more about this technique at the link - how to make a ball of cobweb from threads
