Easy Halloween Movement Activities

Halloween is a great time to implement creative movement into your classroom. Whether you’re working on music programs, or continuing with your regular music education curriculum, you can easily add in Halloween movement activities to help students get the wiggles out and use those gross motor muscles! This blog post is full of ideas and resources for your Halloween movement activities.

HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY IDEA  #1

Halloween music activities can be just a short 5 minute activity. This song is perfect to bring out as a reward or as part of a larger Halloween music lesson.

You can watch the video on YouTube!

This Halloween song with Video and actions is perfect for elementary school students in Music, Preschool, Special Needs, Regular Classroom, Dance and Drama classes.

Easy to learn and easy to use. Upload the video to your google classroom or drive and have an instant activity for your students.

HOW TO USE:

• Music Program
• Movement Activity
• Classroom Brain Break
• Halloween Party

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

1. Animated Video
2. Mp3 Vocal and Accompaniment Tracks
3. Presentation with lyrics and action directions
4. PDF with printable lyrics and actions
5. Action Directions

GET THIS RESOURCE HERE: HALLOWEEN ACTION SONG “Do the Skeleton Dance”

Ultimately, you want to incorporate movement activities that help teach a music concept.

Here’s 3 easy to use Halloween movement activity ideas using movement props and “other” types of things you might have in your classroom.

Check out the blog post with more Ideas!

HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY IDEA #2

Many music teachers like to put on a Halloween Music Program, or have a script to use in class for their students to read as part of a sing a long.

So, I wrote this easy to use Halloween script.

It’s a FREE RESOURCE at the TPT STORE HALLOWEEN MUSIC PROGRAM SCRIPT AND GUIDE

You’ll want to check out this Halloween bundle of songs that works perfectly with the script.

This song and activity bundle is versatile, adaptable and interactive! You’ll find sheet music, Mp3 vocal and performance tracks, power points, lyrics, activities, and actions.

Use the music in your creative movement activities. Use the songs in music class lessons. Use the actions in a Halloween music program.

Tons of “spooky” ideas for your K-6 music students. Be sure to download the preview to hear the music.

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Power point with lyrics
• Sheet Music
• Mp3 Vocal and Performance Tracks
• Activity and Music Lesson Ideas
• Actions (choreography)

USE THIS RESOURCE:

• Halloween Sing A Long
• Lesson activities including: Improvisation, Singing, Playing & Moving Ideas.
• Use the performance tracks for your creative movement activities using scarves, bean bags, movement cards, stretchy bands, parachutes.
• Perfect for a Halloween Concert or Classroom performance.

HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY IDEA #3

Have you ever used Halloween music to teach form?

When I created this activity, I needed something that would calm the class down, get them quiet, yet keep them moving.

FREE! Halloween Movement Activity “Spooky Moves”

Or, you can catch it on the Sing Play Create YouTube Channel.

Use this song for your Halloween creative movement, Halloween party, or the lesson for your music class.

Adaptable Preschool through 8th graders.

*Be sure to download the supporting documents that include the music files and activities!

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Teaching Ideas FORM A BB AA or,
• (ABA) for primary students.
• Activity Ideas for Creative Movement
• 6 Creative Movement Cards
• FORM Cards
• “Spooky Moves” Mp3 Performance Track (no vocal, music track only)
• Creative Movement video (free on TpT)

USE THIS RESOURCE:

• Halloween Sing A Long
• Lesson activities including: Improvisation, Singing, Playing & Moving Ideas.
• Use the performance tracks for your creative movement activities using scarves, bean bags, movement cards, stretchy bands, parachutes.
• Classroom Halloween Party

HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY IDEA  #4

Another fun idea is to have the students create their own Halloween songs and moves.

You can use one of the traditional Kodaly Halloween songs to help students get some ideas.

• First, teach the rhythm of the rhyme.
• Next, ask students to point out the rhyming words.
• Then, brainstorm on different characters that could replace “old mother witch”.
• Big black cat-
• White scary ghost-
• Next, have students say the new chants.
• Further, you can have them switch out the rhyming words too.

Here’s a rap I put together for my students. I love to watch them create actions to this simple song.

Get some creative activities from this blog post:

“Halloween Music Class Tricks” 

In the elementary music classroom, October can be the scariest month of the year. But don’t worry! You’ll find all you need to know in this blog post with 3 (three) Halloween music class tricks.

If you want to check out “The Black Cat” resource, here’s the LINK.

If you want to check out the resource “Old Mother Witch” here’s the LINK.

HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY IDEA #5

If you’ve been looking for some Halloween music backing tracks, you’ll want to check out the Halloween Bundle of background music and movement activities.

Moreover, you and your students will have a Howlin’ great time during the week of Halloween with these movement activities and resources to help students stay engaged and focused on learning.

This bundle includes Halloween Scarf, Movement and Action Song activities that can be paired with the Halloween Music background tracks for a “scary” time in your music classroom, preschool, Special Needs and regular education classrooms.

Honestly, these activities are perfect for brain breaks, parties and movement activities.

RESOURCE INCLUDES 6 RESOURCES & BONUS FILE:

5 HALLOWEEN MUSIC TRACKS

1. “DREAMIN’ OF CANDY” EASY LISTENING
2. “ROCKIN’ GHOSTIE” FAST COUNTRY
3. “THE LONELY GHOST” SAD & SLOW
4. “THUMPIN HALLOWEEN” FAST & SCARY
5. “DO THE SKELETON DANCE” (NO VOCALS) RATTLIN’ BONES UPBEAT DANCE

• HALLOWEEN ACTION SONG VIDEO, AUDIO, PRESENTATION: “Do the Skeleton Dance”
• HALLOWEEN SCARF ACTIVITIES
• MONSTER MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES
• HALLOWEEN CHARACTER MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES
• HALLOWEEN MOVEMENT ACTIVITY “Spooky Moves” (FREEBIE)

BONUS FILE INCLUDES:

1. Scarf Movement Cards
2. Movement Cards
3. EASY Scarf and Movement Activities
4. Halloween Movement Activities and Music Background Tracks Bundle

Here’s some Halloween Music Lesson Tricks from the YouTube Channel.

Looking for Halloween music lessons?  Get the BUNDLE here!

I’m hoping these creative Halloween movement activities help you with your music lessons during the “scariest” month of the school year.