GHOST TRAIN

Season/Month: Halloween/October
Age/Grade: Primary
Groups: Whole, Small, Center, Individual
Materials: book, white paper, Halloween Music

1. Choose an appropriate book about ghosts to be read: Ghost Train by Stephen Wyllie
2. After the story is read, show how to draw a "hand ghost" on the board.
3. Pass out white paper. Have students place paper horizontally like a shoebox.
4. Draw "hand ghosts" . Add faces, clothing....
5. Add the environment/background for your ghost: graveyard, Halloween Evening...
6. Have Halloween Ghostly Music to listen to as you are completing your drawing.
7. Share ghostly pictures with the group.
8. This could easily lead into a writing activity.
9. Post in the hallway or on your webpage.
10.  Remember to add to the Journal/Memory Book.