Experience the magic and spookiness of Halloween with our detailed recount of last year's celebrations! Discover how we meticulously planned and executed Halloween activities, from selecting eerie vector backgrounds and preparing materials for professional printing. Relive our unique classroom Halloween, filled with pumpkin carving, mysterious tasks, and a night spent in school with spooky games and storytelling. Dive into our journey of creating unforgettable memories, and get inspired for your own Halloween festivities. Stay tuned to find out what new adventures await us this year!
Haunted days like Halloween or Halloween always require longer preparation. And I confess that this time I've held off on reflecting on them. And so, with a year's hindsight, I'm enclosing what we did last year. Halloween activities were planned by Tom and I well in advance.
What was needed to be done in advance?
- To find sufficiently scary vector backgrounds.
- Edit the source documents in Affinity Designer.
- Prepare the source materials for the printer - we probably wouldn't have printed it that nicely on a home printer (not to mention the ink consumption, that would have been finite for sure).
- Enter, pay for and pick up the stickers.
- Crop the printed images on our cutting plotter and assemble everything.
- To arrange school sleepovers.
- Prepare for class events - organise time, space, tasks, work, choose an evening film.
Last year, for the first time, we celebrated class Halloween in the classroom the day after (November 1-2) and in the form of completing tasks at individual stations, each of which earned one sticker for the card, which remained with the children's reflection after the first night school patrol in the sleeping bag.
How did we spend this day and night?
- After the fall days off, we returned to class in costume to celebrate Halloween together.
- During the morning, we carved a giant pumpkin, completed magical and scary tasks, drew a picture and then used it on the cover of our own Halloween book.
- We also had a chance to dance to ghostly hits and read about Halloween and Hallowe'en.
- As a sweet surprise, we also had Halloween muffins.
- We tried the shadow game on the ipad and the perception game.
- For the completed tasks we received clues in orange passes.
- The last two stickers were added after a school night together in a sleeping bag...
- We returned to school at six in the evening. With a ticket to night school, of course. It's not just going back to school after lockdown and in the dark.
After "settling in", we played cube puzzles, made up words and after the lights went to our raccoon to sign the deed under the candles.
In the evening, after dinner, we brushed our teeth and watched a story.
At nine it was lights out and bedtime. We fell asleep at 9:45 P.M. and slept until 6:45 A.M.
This was followed by breakfast in the cafeteria, cleaning up the sleeping quarters, and another school day reflecting on the previous one, including the night before.
So much for our experiences last year with the class raccoon. And how will it be this year? That remains to be seen.
