How to decorate for Halloween? Why not make a cool, spooky garland featuring your favorite scary story characters!
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Read several Halloween books—mysteries, funny stories, or other tales. First in a small group, and then with the whole class, discuss your favorites. Decide which story elements are present in all of these tales. List and compare the characters and settings. Make a festive garland that depicts the characters and setting in your favorite story.
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Use Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils to color small paper plates orange for jack-o’-lanterns. Create funny faces by erasing shapes to form eyes and other features. Outline or fill in the shapes with another color. Color other plates black. Erase parts of them to create spooky ghosts or witches. Color more plates red. Erase them to weave delicate spider webs.
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Cut paper plates to make a tiny Boo banner, crescent moon, stems, leaves, twirly vines, or other Halloween symbols. Decorate them. If you wish, make cutouts in your plates so you can suspend tiny decorations inside with thread. Attach your cutouts with Crayola Glue Sticks.
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Punch holes in your plates. String your Halloween characters on a colorful ribbon. Hang the garland on a door frame, your desk, or in a hallway.
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