🎶5′ Activity 1: We sing ‘Pumpkin,pumpkin on the ground’ 3-4 times. Everyone loved the song in the sign language, too. We start singing loudly, and gradually, we whisper until we only sing with signs.

⬛▪️5′ Activity 2: We pass the pumpkin from one to the other, singing in chorus an imprptu song ‘It’s a pumpkin, it’s a big pumpkin!’ and then we pass the small velvet one singing ‘It’s a pumpkin, it’s a small pumpkin!’

📖5′ Activity 3: We speak about Halloween, we explain how it is celebrated in English-speaking countries and read a book ‘Busy Halloween‘ by Campbell. It is an exciting lift-and-flap book for their fingers to explore, so I allow them to browse through it in groups of 2-3 while I move to the next activity.

📸10′ Activity 4: I use props and I create a photobooth where pupils can have their photos taken by their teacher for their year book. We also practise the words black and purple hat, spider, pumpkin, bat, trick or treat. This activity is completed while some pupils look through the Halloween book.

🥼⚗️5′ Activity 5: Time for experiment. We make ghosts from paper tissue, which we stick onto a surface with scotch tape. Next, we blow a balloon and rub it on a woollen sweater or our hair and lift the paper ghost. My little scientists are amazed by how static electricity works.

👩‍🍳10′ Activity 6: Fake Bake. We wanted to bake Halloween-themed cookies but proved a difficult task, so we fake baked! We took our Play Doh out and used cutters and stamps (ghost, web and spider, bat, pumpkin).

🎺5′ Activity 7: We sang and danced Ten Monsters in Bed by Super Simple Songs.