Halloween Craftivity for Creepy Carrots - Halloween Books that Entertain

Creepy Carrots 

by Aaron Reynolds

Jasper loves carrots, especially those that grew in Crackenhopper Field.  Those carrots were fat, crips AND free for the taking.  Jasper yanked carrots out on the way to school, he pulled them up on the way to Little League practice and also had a few on his way home at night.  Jasper loved carrots and he just couldn't get enough!  Until.... they started following him!  He first noticed the carrots being a bit strange after his victory of his Little League game.  Then, later, while he was brushing his teeth, he saw some creepy carrots.  He saw them in the shed and even on his wall.  By the end of the week, Jasper saw creepy carrots EVERYWHERE!  Jasper was spooked, a bit afraid and just wanted the carrots to leave him alone.  So he came up with a plan!  Read this book to find out how Jasper solves his creepy carrot problem. 

Find some reader response pages to write about this book and also be sure to make an Interactive Reading Flipbook AND... a creepy carrot or two!
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Reader Response Pages for Creepy Carrots

15 Ways to Respond to Spookley, the Square Pumpkin

Spookley Reader Response Pages

A Favorite Book for October Reading  

It's all here! Everything you need for your readers to respond to this book, Spookley, the Square Pumpkin, by Joe Troiano. In this story, Spookley is feeling a bit sad, lonely and square; and those other pumpkins are teasing him! But not for long, as you will read to find out what makes being square a unique feature and also helps to solve a big problem. This book entertains the reader and the listeners with rhyme and rhythm. The perfect book to teach and review the different shapes... and also teach awareness of differences; and how we might not want to judge a pumpkin by it's shape. 

It's fun fiction! And leads to a very rewarding ending. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages as a springboard for important class discussions about being unique and caring about others. Also included is a Spookley craftivity and word cards for your pocket chart.

Reader Response Pages Include:

• character feelings
• being unique
• self-to-text connection
• story elements
• learning shapes
• illustration
• draw a pumpkin patch with all the shapes
• beginning, middle, end
• If I were a pumpkin, I would be...
• I went to a pumpkin patch and ...
• create your own Spookley, with templates and directions

• 13 pages to respond to the book...
• craftivity to make Spookley; create a bulletin board

• word cards for your pocket chart

Create Your Own Spookley with easy directions and templates:

Being square can be really fun!  Get your templates and easy directions HERE!

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Setting Sail to Learn About Christopher Columbus

Drawing

How to draw a ship with sails.  Drawing these steps one at a time can be a great listening lesson.  And the results are rewarding ! Read these steps below giving your students time to listen, think and then create is a great way to improve listening and also talk about Christopher Columbus.  Drawing the sails from the bottom up makes it easier to connect them at the corners to create the windblown look.

1. Draw the hull near the bottom of the paper.

2. Add the three masts as shown.

3. Add the sails to each mast working from the bottom up and from stem to stern so they overlap properly. 

4. The mast lines inside the sails are erased.
5. Water, clouds, moon, flags and hull details are added. 
6. The drawing is traced with a black marker and then colored in with colored pencil.

This is a high-interest activity and students are motivated to draw a ship after reading about Christopher Columbus.  

Reading

This book is brief and simple text with beautiful illustrations.  Ask your students what they see on the cover, make predictions and begin to read the rhyme and rhythm text of this story.  When you are finished reading, place it on your chalk tray to display and invite your students to take a closer look. 

Creating 

Ships for Snacks

Blue Jello and Orange Quarter are easy to make and so make Columbus Day Learning fun. 

Easy to Build " Egg Carton Ships".

Materials Needed: cardboard egg cups, modeling clay or play dough, 5 toothpicks, 1 sheet white paper, scissors, craft glue

Cut sails from white paper. 

Paint your eggcups brown. Set aside 3 toothpicks for the large sails. Break or cut the other three toothpicks in half; giving you 6 halves.  Line of glue through the middle of sails. Place the broken half on the glue line. Repeat until all sails are made. Place your playdough in the eggcup to hold your sails in place. 

After you build your ships, you will need a map.   

Draw outlines of land and dotted lines from Spain to New World on a brown grocery bag; crunched up, of course.    Paint the land and water.  Add details... you have your artist's license to create and paint your map. 

Writing

Find these pages HERE ... Easy PRINTABLES ... NO PREP

Read. Think. Write. Learn.  
About Christopher Columbus

Find Writing Prompts HERE