Great Table Decorating Ideas
A brilliant orange paper table cloth works nicely to go over the tables especially if you are serving food. The table cloth is a lot more sanitary than a bare tabletop, which holds a lot of germs and bacteria. One cool thing about using a solid color like orange is that it allows the children to write Halloween related things on it. You can create a simple centerpiece for your table using an arrangement of Halloween balloons in black, orange and white. To add additional detail to the centerpiece you can include Halloween pictures, plastic spiders, and lollipops.
Ghosts Made From Streamers
No classroom Halloween party is complete without classroom decorations that hang from the ceiling. In order to keep the children involved you don't want to do anything too complex. All you have to do for this craft is start out by taking a white rectangular sheet of construction paper and create a tube with a decent size diameter by taping the two ends together. Once you have the body of the ghost done you can cut some streamers using either crepe paper or white plastic trash bags. Either one works fine so it's really up to you what you want to use. Connect the streamers to the bottom underside of the construction paper tube with tape or adhesive. Finish the ghosts by making a scary or funny face on one side of the tube. Hang five or more streamer ghosts from the ceiling.
Create a Scary Corner
If you have some students in your class who are a little bit too young for the classroom party you can create a fun little haunted corner. The haunted corner does not have to be anything fancy. You can create a pretty cool one just by hanging a black sheet or piece of fabric. When putting up the sheet make sure you leave some kind of opening so you can see what the children are doing and make sure they aren't causing any trouble. A couple other ideas for your haunted corner are to make fake spider webs and hang them low enough so they brush the tops of the childrens' heads as they walk in. Depending on how old the children are and how messy you believe they will get you can also put a bowl of some jello with gummies and other things they can eat!
Fun Crafts and Activities
Set up tables with a variety of activities for the children. Provide small pumpkins that students can paint and then take home. A stack of colorful foam sheets can be used to create Halloween decorations that can be re-used year after year. Suggest that the students cut an oval or rectangular background for their decoration and then provide Halloween themed stencils of cats, pumpkins, bats, goblins, moons and witches that they can trace, cut out and glue to the background to make a Halloween scene.
Classroom Decorations You Can Eat
For a yummy classroom decoration idea, offer some cupcakes that students can decorate with tubes of colored icing and then eat! Another edible activity is the spider pop. Have the students cover lollipop tops with squares of black tissue paper. Then, show them how to connect the tissue paper with 4 black pipe cleaners wrapped around once so that four legs stick out evenly on either side. They can then glue wiggly eyes in the center of the pipe cleaners for the eyes of the spiders.
These fun classroom decoration ideas for a Halloween party require little more than the classroom craft supplies you probably already have. All you need is a little bit more food like a vegetable tray, some drinks, and a couple fun activities, and you are all set to have an awesome classroom Halloween party!
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