21 Costume Ideas for Teachers
Trying to figure out how to dress for your school's Halloween or fall celebration? How about one of these storybook themed costumes? They're sure to be a hit with your students!
The Mother Bird from P.D. Eastman's Are You My Mother?
Make bird wings out of brown felt (you can find some fun instructions here). Then tie a red handkerchief (with white polka dots if possible) on your head. Now you're the mother bird in PD Eastman's "Are You My Mother?"
The Coconut Tree from Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
To make this costume, hot glue bathtub alphabet letters onto some brown scrubs. Then attach some fake ferns to a hat or headband. Ta Dah! Instant coconut tree!
The Pigeon from Mo Willems Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!
First, find a light blue hoodie, then use white, black, and yellow felt to add a stripe around the neck, giant eyes, and a beak for an adorable (and comfortable) Halloween costume!
Rainbow Fish from Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish
Cut half circles out of multiple colors of felt and glue them to an old shirt. Then, attach some colorful fabric to the shirt using sticky back velcro (that way you can share your "scales" just like rainbow fish). Finish off with some blue or aqua colored leggings/pants. You can find more instructions on this costume here.
Strega Nona from Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona
For this costume, find a long skirt and a long sleeved shirt, cover these with a white apron and a short sleeved shirt. To finish off, cover your head with a head scarf and carry a cauldron.
Max from Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are
This costume is sure to be a comfortable one! All you need is a white hoodie, a paper crown, and a terrible roar!
David from David Shannon's No David!
All you really need for this costume is a blue and white striped shirt, some red pants, and a little attitude... unless you want to get really creative like this teacher and make yourself a giant papier-mache head!
Peter from Ezra Jack Keat's The Snowy Day
For this costume, grab a long red stocking cap and stick some wire in it so it sticks straight up. Then all you need is a red long sleeved shirt or jacket, some red pants, and red boots.
The Man in the Yellow Hat (and Curious George) from Margaret and H.A. Rey's Curious George books.
To dress as the man with the yellow hat, you'll need a yellow button down shirt, yellow pants, boots, yellow tie, and a wide brimmed yellow hat. Finish off your costume with a stuffed monkey (or your own little monkey).
Pete from James Dean's Pete the Cat books.
The beauty of a Pete the Cat costume is it can be as simple as a blue shirt, red shoes, and some cat ears, or you can follow this tutorial to make your own Pete the Cat face on an inexpensive navy blue hat.
Chester Racoon from Audrey Penn's The Kissing Hand
Find yourself some ears and then paint a raccoon mask on your eyes with face paint. Wear black and pin a striped tail on the back of your shirt. Don't forget your "kissing hand"!
Mouse from Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give A Mouse a Cookie
Find (or make) some mouse ears, paint your face like a mouse with face paint, and throw on some overalls for this costume. Then all you need is a cookie!
Caterpillar from Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Start with a green striped shirt and green pants (add some black felt feet if you feel up to it). Then make a cute caterpillar face on a cheap red hat using green, yellow, and black felt.
Olivia from Ian Falconer's Olivia
To be Olivia, you'll need a red dress and some black and white striped tights. Finish off with some cute piggy ears and a cute snout.
Corduroy from Don Freeman's Corduroy
Find some green overalls (corduroy ones if possible) and add a purple pocket. Unbutton one of the shoulders and give yourself some bear ears and a painted bear nose.
Paddington from Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington
Become Paddington Bear with a blue coat and wide brimmed red hat. The marmalade sandwich is optional.
Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Find a blue jacket and some rabbit ears in order to become Peter Rabbit. Or use this tutorial to make your costume.
Eloise from Kay Thompson's Eloise
Eloise wears white knee socks, black shoes, black skirt, white shirt, and black suspenders. To finish off the costume, give yourself a giant red bow on top of your head.
Elephant and Piggie from Mo Willems Elephant and Piggie books.
You'll need a friend to pull off this costume. One person will need to wear pink and the other grey. Then make some masks or some animal ears to become this friendly duo.
Arthur from Marc Brown's Arthur's Nose
The key to this costume is the round aardvark ears and the glasses, but if you want to get creative, you can give yourself a long aardvark nose.
Papa or Mama Bear from Stan and Jan Berenstain's The Berenstain Bears
For Papa Bear, you'll need overalls, for Mama Bear, you'll need a blue dress with white spots and a spotted hat. Bear slippers would be a nice touch too.
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Halloween Activities
These Halloween Math & Reading Games are a great way to meet the core standards in a fun way.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached.
Math Activities
Haunted House Counting: Counting objects
Candy Count: Matching quantity to numerals.
Dark Dark Woods: Demonstrating story problems.
Candy Patterns: Identifying, creating and extending patterns
Halloween Sort and Graph: Sorting and creating graphs.
Reading Activities
Magic Rocks: Matching lowercase letters
Pumpkin Walk: Recognizing letters of the alphabet.
Pop The Sound: Identifying Beginning Sounds
Halloween Hootenanny: Identifying uppercase letters fluently
Halloween Rhyme Time: Producing Rhyming Words
Costume Shop: Identifying words with the same Beginning Sound
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his NEWLY UPDATED SPOOKY Halloween unit is divided into areas of literature/media, music, art, literacy, math and science activities, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
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Unit Includes the Following:
Literacy Activities:
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Mystery Letter: Identifying letters
Pumpkin Bingo: Identifying Letters
Trick or Treat: Using Onset/rime.
Independent Activities
Ghostwriter: Writing Uppercase Letters
Fall Into the ABC’s: Tracing & Writing Uppercase Letters
Halloween Sounds: Matching Sounds
Math Activities:
Monster Math-Mash : Identifying More or Less
Candy Count: Building Equivalent Sets of Numbers
Missing Pumpkins: Ordering Numbers
Candy Match: Matching Quantity to Number
Independent Activities
Halloween Buddies: Number Recognition
The Great Pumpkin: Matching Numbers & Quantity
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
My Costume
Halloween
Halloween Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
Trick or Treat
Class Made Books
Trick or Treat
Science
Witch Stew: Making Conclusions Based on Observations and Experiences
Monster Slime: Following Directions to Complete an Experiment
Art Projects
Pumpkin,Pumpkin Puppet
Construct a Jack
Orange Ghost
Triangle Witch
Pumpkin Lantern
Songs
Pumpkin-Pumpkin
The Orange Ghost
Ten Little Ghosts
The Old Witch
There's No Such Thing as a Witch
Halloween Is All Around
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Halloween Alphabet Activity
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Offering a paper book to emergent readers provides authentic experience at their levels in a "Developmentally Appropriate" way.
Table of Contents:
1. Halloween Night
2. Little Witch
3. The Chocolate Chip Ghost
4. Trick or Treat
5. My Halloween Costume
6. Pat the Bat
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Kindergarten October Homework
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Teachers and parents are partners in education. This parent involvement resource will help strengthen that connection as students practice essential kindergarten skills.
This October packet consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, with nothing to return, or use the turn-in signed check off sheet if you wish, because choices are included.
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Three levels are available for all 12 months of the year.
For your convenience, each activity is strategically linked to Core Standards.
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Contents Include:
Haunted House A syllable game
Boo to You An alphabet game
Spider Race An alphabet activity
Monster Cookies A beginning sound activity
Dark Woods Math A number game
No Tricks, Just Treats A sort and graph activity
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Preschool October Homework
This parent involvement resource will help strengthen that connection as students practice essential preschool skills.
This October packet consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, with nothing to return, or use the turn-in signed check off sheet if you wish, because choices are included.
Parents and children alike love these fun, exciting. and time-tested NO-PREP home connection packets.
Three levels are available for all 12 months of the year.
For your convenience, each activity is strategically linked to Core Standards.
This is also great product for parents looking to enrich learning, or homeschool parents that maintain a year round schedule
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Rhyme It! A rhyming game
ABCD: Alphabet pages
Frightful Five: A 5-frame math activity
A Fall Walk: Vocabulary builder
My Name: Sequencing letters in one's name
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Spooky Shapes: A shape game
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First Grade October Homework
This parent involvement resource will help strengthen that connection as students practice essential first grade skills.
This October packet consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, with nothing to return, or use the turn-in signed check off sheet if you wish, because choices are included.
Parents and children alike love these fun, exciting. and time-tested NO-PREP home connection packets.
Three levels are available for all 12 months of the year.
For your convenience, each activity is strategically linked to Core Standards.
This is also great product for parents looking to enrich learning, or homeschool parents that maintain a year round schedule
Contents Include.
Haunted House A syllable game
Boo to You A sight word game
Spider Math A math activity
Monster Cookies A beginning sound activity
Dark Woods Math A number game
No Tricks, Just Treats A sort and graph activity
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Complement our harvest, fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving units with these great scarecrow activities inspired by the book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" - by Linda Williams & illustrated by Megan Lloyd
This Scarecrow unit features activities that are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Each activity has clear objectives and are strategically linked to Core Standards.
Unit includes:
Literacy Activities:
The Little Old Lady: Story Elements/Sequencing
The Scarecrow: Using Metacognition
Yummy Pumpkins: Word Substitution
Spin a Scarecrow: Blending Onset and Rime
The Sound Maze: Identifying Initial Sounds
Catching Crows: Identifying Letters
Scarecrow Rhymes: Matching Rhyming Pictures
Find the Crow: Writing Capital Letters
Scarecrow Sounds: Identifying Initial Sounds
Math Activities
Scare-A-Crow: Creating a Picture Graph and Recording Data
The Scarecrow: Using Pattern Blocks to Make a Larger Shape
Scarecrow Scare: Comparing Numbers
Scarecrows Count: Counting Forward
Counting Crows: Counting Cardinality
Team Scarecrow: Comparing Groups
Art Projects
Pattern Block Scarecrow
My Shape Scarecrow
Kitchen
Scarecrow Snack
Scarecrow Supper
Writing
Scarecrow Word Wall
If I Were a Scarecrow
How to Scare Crows
Label-It Scarecrow
Classroom Book: My Scarecrow
Guided Reading Books
The Scarecrow
Songs/Fingerplays
The Scarecrow
Little Scarecrow
How Scary Can You Be?
Scarecrow Turn Around
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Apple and Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers
Apple Experiment Science Guided Reader
Eating Apples Free Beginning Sound Game