Teacher Mummy

• Grab a four-pack of toilet paper or one large industrial-size roll. Tuck the end into your pocket and have each of your students make a few rotations around you to turn you into a mummy. Make sure every child gets a chance and remember that you can have many layers of toilet paper in any given area. By the time you're fully wrapped, the kids should be giggling at their silly teacher mummy.
  
  

Cupcake Spiders

• Make or buy enough cupcakes for each student to have one for a spider cupcake craft. Place one cupcake on a paper plate for each child with a tablespoon of frosting and a wooden craft stick or plastic knife to spread it. Cut 2 inch-sections of pull-apart licorice. Give each student two large or eight small candy-coated chocolates and a section of the licorice. The candy-coated chocolates serve as the spider's eyes and the licorice sections get pulled apart to form the legs. After the kids decorate their spiders, they can either eat them or take them home.
  
  

Ghost Drawing

• Give each child a plain white piece of paper and a white crayon. Have them draw ghosts on their paper and paint the paper with watercolors. The ghosts will reveal themselves as the kids paint. Allow the paintings to dry, then hang them as classroom decorations or send the kids home with them.
  
  

Face Painting

• A set of four face paint colors is sufficient for this activity, but the more the merrier. Use a cotton swab to design cats, ghosts, spiders and other Halloween images on the kids' faces. This is also a great backup if any child forgets to wear a costume.
  
  

Costume Party

• Pick a theme for this Halloween staple, such as pirates, animals, superheroes, princes and princesses or crazy hair. Advise the children beforehand not to bring weapons with their costumes, as these may lead to some aggressive pirate or superhero battles that you may not want in the classroom.
  
  

Halloween Stations

• To tone down the craziness that can erupt with the fun of a Halloween party, set up holiday-themed activities at stations through which the kids rotate. Some examples of Halloween station activities are puzzles, coloring sheets, decorating trick-or-treat bags and ghost crafts. For some mysterious fun, set up sensory tables lined with several boxes that the kids put their hands in without seeing what's inside. You can make it simple like pompom balls and string or get icky with it and fill the boxes with oozy things like spaghetti, then have the kids guess what they're feeling.