Spooky Halloween Words

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Tell the children that there are mystery words hidden in the pumpkins. By rearranging the letters they will be able to discover what those Halloween Words are. This activity is fun for children who are just beginning to learn how to read, children learning new Halloween vocabulary words or for children practicing their Halloween spelling words.

Preparation: Write a Halloween Word on the bottom of each pumpkin. Then find the letter tiles to form each word and place them in the appropriate pumpkin. The children dump out the letters from one pumpkin only and rearrange the letters until they discover the word. When done they can look at the bottom of the pumpkin for self checking.

For Kindergarten or very beginning readers, make a card for each pumpkin out of orange card stock. Trace around enough tiles to spell the word and write a letter in each square. The children then just match the letters to the letters on the card. Draw a picture of the word on the other side of the card for the children to see so that they know which word they just spelled.

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In this Bat Word Work center, children punch out bats and then write -at words on each bat. This is designed to be an independent learning center once the children are quite familiar with the -at words. First they punch out a bat, then write an -at word on the bat.

Bats with -at words on them can then either be posted on a bulletin board above the work station or can be placed in a bat house.

-at words already in the Bat House can be used to play Go Fish or other vocabulary learning game.

Pull out your feather pen and write words for casting spells. With Dragon's and Bat's Blood inks you are sure to scare the most brave Halloween friends that come to Trick or Treat!