How to Decorate a Classroom for Halloween

Halloween is one of the most enjoyable holidays for children. Dressing up in fancy or frightening costumes and collecting candy is the high point of many a child's year. Encourage youthful enthusiasm and bring the festive atmosphere into the classroom with ghostly and ghoulish decorations.

Things You'll Need

• Round lollipops
• Thin orange or black ribbon
• Orange and black construction paper
• Black crayons
• Cardboard
• Cotton cobwebs
• Scissors
• Stapler

Instructions

1. Do a classroom art project with students and make decorations for the room. Create ghosts by wrapping tissue paper around lollipops, securing the ghostly neck with a ribbon. Cut pumpkin shapes out of orange construction paper and let children draw jack-o-lantern faces with black crayons. Make "tombstones" out of cardboard and let children make up epitaphs for characters from books the class is reading. Have students tape or tack their creations to the walls.

2. Make chains with orange and black construction paper. Cut paper into 2-inch x 8-inch strips of paper. Staple the ends of one strip of orange paper to create a ring. Thread a strip of black paper through the orange ring and staple closed. Repeat until the chain is as long as desired and hang it around the windows or chalkboard.

3. Purchase Halloween-themed static clings for the windows of the classroom. Haunted houses, ghosts and gravestones are available at discount stores from the beginning of the school year until Halloween.

4. Cover the room with "cobwebs." Purchase a few bags of cotton webs from a discount store and drape it artfully in all the corners of the classroom. Cobwebs also look great when placed in doorways or covering windows. Add plastic spiders to make it more authentic.