Halloween Words
Very scary letters!
ADDED October 27, 2009
Length: A short while. 15 minutes or so.
Parental Involvement: Explain the idea, and help think of words.
Kids Should Be Able to: Spell a bit, or at least figure out first letters of words. Enjoy Halloween!
If you've read this blog for a little while, you know that we don't just want kids to have fun, we want them to get their brains in gear, too.
Halloween is plenty of fun for kids, of course. So it's easy to use this exciting holiday as a starting place for some thinking and learning...
You're probably familiar with "go-through-the-alphabet" games. We've even suggested a few in the past. With this kind of game, you choose a category and then go through the alphabet trying to find an appropriate word for each letter.
In honor of the coming holiday, we'd like you guys to spend some time thinking up some spooky, eerie, and even some downright scary words. Today, we'd like you guys to think up a "Halloween word" for each letter in the alphabet.
This is harder than it sounds, even for children who love Halloween as much as mine do. For instance, can you guys think of a good Halloween word for the letter "A?"
(This book, Z is for Zombie, suggests "alien" for A, and I think that's, eh, fine. Half credit. Another book, Halloween ABC suggests "apple," and I don't know if it even gets a point for that one. Am I being too harsh?)
Some letters are pretty easy. Think bat for B and 'creepy' for C.
Because we want you to have fun -- and not ever get annoyed with us in the process -- we've included some "answers." Here's what we've thought up for each letter. Click here to view in your browser or here to download.
(We think our answer for 'A' is pretty darn good. Better than 'alien,' thank you kindly.)
But before you check out the answers, please think of your own responses first. And award yourself one full Today Is Fun point for each answer you get that matches one of ours. And give yourself two Today Is Fun points for your answers that we didn't think of. (And email or comment, please, to let us know what we missed. We care about this stuff!)
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