10/22/2020
We're sure lots of people are excited for Halloween and all the activities Halloween has to offer, even during the pandemic. Halloween presents opportunities to teach students about a few social and emotional learning skills – such as self-awareness. With the following tips, tricks, and activities there are options to create a SPOOKY social and emotional learning environment.
Pumpkin Feelings – Teaching Self-Awareness
- Halloween offers opportunities to illustrate how students may explore, identify, and develop understanding of emotions.
- With a laminated print-out of a pumpkin, the teacher or student will be able to draw facial expressions to demonstrate different emotions.
- Students will be able to identify the emotions and come up with words to describe the facial expression or emotion of the pumpkin.
- Students should draw their own facial expression on the pumpkin; share with the class the emotion they chose and why. Additionally, students could develop Halloween-related stories about why the pumpkin is “feeling” that way.
- Lastly, any students with a sad, angry, or scared pumpkin should be encouraged to participate by responding to make the pumpkin feel better.
Halloween Character – Teaching Self-Awareness
- Students get the opportunity to draw, write about, or act out a Halloween character feeling various emotions. Examples could include Jack Skellington, Coraline, Casper, or ET.
Ghost Story – Teaching Relationship Skills
- Sit students in a circle, and read them an opening line or two from a Halloween themed story.
- Have each student, one by one, create the next line to the story and share out loud with the class.
Trick or Treating Social Story – Teaching Social Awareness
- The link below is a free printable but it requires a subscription to a newsletter, although the subscription is free.
- It speaks on topics that include costumes, weather, social etiquette, safety, and all things scary.
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