Halloween Goodies

Phew, all finished. Although I live in Australia and we do not generally celebrate Halloween, I can imagine that this is the excitement you must feel before you open your trick-or-treat bag at the end of the night.

All these goodies are suddenly in my shop and now all I want to do is use them more. James told me to not get carried away making Halloween activities as I had other priorities but I still managed to get 21 done before he ordered me off to do something else.

This pack is so good, I can't wait to use it at Halloween, teaching my kids about a different kind of festival. There are different short comprehension passages on different historical aspects on Halloween. I love finding out how things started. There is a whole foldable on phobias, should be interesting, I even included the fear of going to school, wonder how many of my kids will start using that one.

Included in the pack above are two products we also have up. The freebie crossword and wordsearch which I have listed here in freebies and also 2D and 3D Decorations. Yes, I confess, I had to make some to check they work and to have some fun colouring in. Even I was impressed by how cool they look. You can find that separate product below, but if you buy the activity pack its a huge saving with all those activities.  

We also have 9 spooky story starters or narrative prompts to get those student brains working. Some of these make me shudder just thinking about what they could come up with. Each prompt has a colourful border around them, so you could use them as a presentation piece. 

To make all these products we used our clip art, backgrounds and borders all up for sale in our store.

So I hope you are looking forward to Halloween and can make some spooky stuff or use some of our activities to engage your students. 

Are there any other activities you like to do with your students for Halloween?

Custom Work - Iroquois Clip Art

Phew, it takes me an extra 20 seconds to type Iroquois and then another 20 seconds to check that I have types it correctly. Stacy is always telling me that I am the slowest typer in the world, well that word itself takes my average typing speed to very slow.

But I did enjoy doing the clip art, I had to do a lot of research because it was a very specific set of Iroquois - Eastern Woodland Native Americans of New York State that were wanted and I had no idea there were differences. Yes shock horror, gasp at me some more but I am from Australia here our Indigenous people are called that Indigenous or Aboriginal.

I like making my clip art as realistic as possible while still keeping that graphic feel. I do quite a bit of research to make sure they are accurate to real life which in this case took some time to distinguish between different Iroquois people.

Jennifer from Elementary School Garden was very impressed with the work, her feedback was great to hear as all you sellers and creative people know

Thank you so much! These graphics are exactly what I've been looking for. It is hard to find clipart that is historically relevant. I have been working hard on an Iroquois unit for my 4th graders and this will work perfectly to illustrate the pages. The clipart is cute, yet mature, the perfect mix for 4th graders. The colors are bright and fun. The images are crisp and clean. Thank you again!

She used the clip art to create this unit.

Go and check it out and remember if you are interested in custom work, just send us an email at contact.creativecritters@gmail.com and we will do our best to fulfil your needs.