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By First Grade Teacher

Here a few ideas I used in first grade that you could adapt to 2nd grade.

The first idea I did was have a parent volunteer paint one foot of a child with white paint and then stamp iton black paper. When it dries turn
the foot upside down and add two eyes and it's a ghost! Then we wrote, Some people may be afraid of a ghost, but it is ________that scares me most. Students then fill in the blank with what scares them. In 2nd grade you could start with the poem and then add a short story about what scares them.
The other thing I did was gave students an orange piece of paper and they painted a black

tree trunk on it. Then I gave them a watered down glob of black paint right at the top of their tree trunk. Students then use a straw to blow the glob of paint and turn it into a bunch of spooky tree branches. I always show them a sample, and they turn out so much better. We then wrote, I hid behind a spooky tree, I saw a _________, but it didn't see me. Again you could have students add a story to this if you wanted them to write more.