What halloween crafts / art activities do the 5-7 year olds in your life enjoy doing?
Get a big banner of paper and draw a winding road from one end to the other. Seed it with a few spooky buildings and tombstones, a rolling horizon and a moon in the sky. Then tell them you’re making a Halloween neighborhood. Ask them if they can add things to it. Give them pens, watch them go at it. While they draw, ask them about the parts they’ve drawn. Make notes on their stories. Then, when everyone is done, or the paper is full enough, walk with your fingers from one end of the banner to the other. Say you’re a trick or treater. Tell the story of your evening, folding in all the stories the kids told. If you have access to a recording device you can tell the story again, recording it this time while the kids make spooky noises to go with the story in the background. I did this with 4th graders and a whiteboard, and the outcome was great.
