Tuesday Teacher Tips: Can't Celebrate Halloween At School? Throw an Owl Party Instead!

 

Tuesday Teacher Tips: If Your School Doesn't Celebrate Halloween, Let's Have An Owl Party!

Every Tuesday Michelle, from Teach 123, and I will have a new installment of my favorite post, Tuesday Teacher Tips!

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Let's face it, even if your school says NO HALLOWEEN, most of your students will be excited!  Seriously, who can blame them? Halloween is the one time of year that a little boy REALLY thinks he is Batman and a little girl REALLY thinks she is a princess. I love Halloween for that very reason! But from a teacher's point of view, I have always felt that November 1st should be a National Holiday! 

Sorry, Halloween will not be on a
Friday again until 2025... you can 
save this meme for later...hahaha! :)

 

But if you can't celebrate Halloween, you can host an Owl party instead. Owls are cute and hip this year and students love them. I have four ideas for your party and my tip to you is team up and have a "Round the World" type of day. I've even included a couple of little charts for your schedule. I recommend a two hour block broken into 4 half-hour classes. This works best with four teachers, but if you have two teachers, each of you do two activities twice. 

 

Click here or on the image to download a couple of different blank scheduling forms.

If you have an odd number of teachers, three or five, divide one class up with the other classes and the "leftover" teacher can do a few different things. They can be a second teacher at the activity your team thinks is the hardest, they can be a 10 minute "Restroom Break" person that rotates around to give everyone a break, they can grade everyone's papers so they don't have to take them home on the weekend, they can make treat bags with NON-HALLOWEEN candy for everyone to take home...hahaha, just a cute little gift from all the teachers for your NON-Halloween Owl Party.

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Depending on your grade level, print one, two or all four pages of this Free Owl Color For Fun printable. If you need an even longer activity, take an 18 x 12 piece of construction paper and fold it in half. Then place the four color sheets inside and add three staples along the left hand side. Students can also decorate the covers.

 Click here or on the image for the free Owl Color For Fun printables.

Here is a wonderful 4 minute owl video. It meets the "Fern Standards" which means nothing gets eaten, turns bloody, is scary or even breaks a nail. But it is a real life, hidden camera, owl nest that is so cute!

 
Next, give them one of my free owl writing printables to write about the video.

Click here or on the image for the free papers.

So, I tried really, really, really hard this week to make you an owl craft, but it is just something that was kicking my tail! So I found these four FREEBIES at TPT for you.

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{These were free at the time of this blog post. Please let me know if that changes.}
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I found this adorable owl craft at the Education.com web site, with a free download direction sheet.

The last idea is to have a classroom where they make a little owl treat, these treats range from "SUPER EASY" to "GET A ROOM MOM TO MAKE MOST IN ADVANCE" type of treats! 

ENJOY :)

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 Michelle has some great tips about her experiences with No Halloween Celebrations that she would like to share with you, too.

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In addition to our tips each week, we are hoping that you will share some of your ideas in the comments below!

Do you have a great classroom party tip to share?

 

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