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Spooktacular Halloween Design

Life Skills
30 Min
activity

Get ready to unleash your creativity and plan the most amazing Halloween celebration ever! This challenge will have you designing costumes, decorating ideas, and even a trick-or-treating strategy, all while learning real-world planning skills.

The lesson goal is in this spark, your learner will plan a multi-faceted Halloween event, considering different elements, utilize creativity to design unique costumes and decorations and collaborate on decision-making and problem-solving for a shared goal.

What You Need

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Paper
Markers Or Crayons
Scissors
Glue

Learning Guide

Step-by-step guidance. No preparation required.

  1. 1

    Introduction5 Min

    • Share Halloween favorites and get excited
    • Move on when Student shares their favorite Halloween elements and shows excitement for the challenge.
  2. 2

    Explore & Plan8 Min

    • Gather and lay out all the materials
    • Discuss Halloween components and first planning step
    • Move on when Students have a general idea of what they want to create and materials are ready.
    Explore & Plan
    Photo by Ivan S on Pexels
  3. 3

    Discussion6 Min

    • Discuss key considerations for their Halloween plan
    • Move on when Student can articulate key considerations for different Halloween elements.
  4. 4

    Activity9 Min

    • Guide them to start designing their plan
    • Provide encouragement and support as they work
    • Offer suggestions for details or collaboration
    • Move on when Student has completed their visual Halloween plan or a significant portion of it.
  5. 5

    Summary2 Min

    • Celebrate and discuss their Halloween plan learnings
    • Move on when Student shares one key takeaway or a favorite part of their Halloween plan.
    Summary
    Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels

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