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Post by King Quailbee on Aug 30, 2016 13:40:09 GMT 9
Probably the busiest time of the year for CIRs (who mainly do events) is right around the corner...from October to February - Halloween, Christmas, and Valentines.
This thread will focus on Halloween specifically. Please use this to compile ideas and brainstorming and past event successes and failures on here in regards to Halloween.
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Post by King Quailbee on Aug 30, 2016 13:48:01 GMT 9
Last year I did not manage to do a town-wide style event for Halloween because of being a new arrival and my office wanting me to get used to work slowly (which had the opposite effect of making me stir-crazy at the beginning). I did manage to do some school visits to elementary and middle schools.
I was wanting some insight as to what sort of things you have done for a town-wide style event for Halloween.
General Idea: Open event for all ages with different centers for crafts and games and three 全体 events. First half focus on centers, second half focus on 全体.
Crafts: Make Your Own Mask (using paper plates), Decorate Your Trick-or-Treat Bag, and Mikan Jack-o-Lantern Games: Mystery Box Guessing Game (i.e. cold pasta, peeled grapes, fuzzy objects, etc.), Pin-the-face-on-the-jack-o-lantern, Other Game (? Something physical or active)
全体: Yokai Watch Dance, Costume Contest, and Trick-or-Treat in 公民館
Limitation: Town is widespread from a merging of three towns (Ikata, Seto, and Misaki) and the considered "center" (Ikata) of town is not really the "center." I have held my Valentine's event in Ikata and my Easter event in Misaki - I thought of using Seto, but there isn't necessarily a large facility and I only visit the preschool there frequently.
Of course, I always list out a bunch of ideas because I know they will be eliminated due to budget or weird 意見, but because I am in a different office this year I want to take advantage of their not-knowing-anything.
What do you guys think?
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Post by no yark shark on Aug 30, 2016 13:48:03 GMT 9
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Post by Caic on Aug 30, 2016 13:56:11 GMT 9
probably could have just used last years thread rather than making a new one...
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Post by no yark shark on Aug 30, 2016 13:56:16 GMT 9
My Halloween Event last year: - cut out paper pumpkins and bats and provide supplies for kids to decorate them freely (paper eyes and mouths for the pumpkins, sequins, glitter glue, and oil crayons for the bats) - the mystery box thing listed above. The elementary schoolers that were there were really jaded about it so I'm not sure if I will do it again this year. - costume contest. Definitely the best way to get people to wear costumes. I made a ballot with different categories for different age groups. Participation prizes (small bags with candy) for everyone, and a slightly large prize for category winners. - a mummy race that we did last minute to fill empty time. It was hard to explain but I think it could go well if it were planned. - "trick or treating" by having ALTs in costumes hand out candy to kids when they say "trick or treat." This was a great way to fill the time while the ballots were being counted. Another idea I had was face painting but ended up not doing it because I didn't know who to ask. Maybe I will try that this year. also King Quailbee I would suggest maybe Thriller instead of the Yokai Watch dance for added IBUNKA KOULYU
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Post by King Quailbee on Aug 30, 2016 13:59:37 GMT 9
Thanks no yark shark
I will also post about what I did for school visits in regards to Halloween (for those who can not do a town-wide event).
School visits are limited to about 40 min - 1 hour.
Elementary School Lesson Plan #1 1. Presentation about the history of Halloween, customs, costumes, etc. 2. Ghosts in the Graveyard Game (Have one person be the gravekeeper or IT, while everyone else lies on the ground being dead or a zombie. Once the gravekeeper begins the game, the zombies can move while the gravekeeper has their back turned to them. if the gravekeeper sees a zombie move, they are out. If a zombie tags the gravekeeper, they lose. Big hit with the kids that it has gained a name of Quail-gokko) 3. Mikan Jack-o-Lanterns - using black markers, have the kids decorate their own mikans. Utilized the town's meibutsu as well as a cheap and safer alternative to pumpkins and kaki. 4. At the end, have the kids say "Trick or Treat" and they receive a piece of candy.
Lesson Plan #2 Arrived early to decorate school gym 1. Presentation about the history of Halloween, customs, costumes, etc. 2. Make-Your-Own-Mask (Paper Plate) - some kids needed help with cutting (which got a bit frustrating after a while) 3. Trick-or-Treat with Teachers
Middle School Lesson Plan #1 1. Presentation about the history of Halloween, customs, costumes, etc. 2. Games: Ghost in the Graveyard, MURDER, and Crossword Puzzle. -> Ghost in the Graveyard was a big success. MURDER (I came up with a different name and made it monster) ended up going to a class that was really shy (that I didn't know)...might be best doing Wink SATSUJIN instead, but wanted to have them practice handshakes and English greetings. Crossword Puzzle was created by ALT and that was a terrible failure in terms of English level being too difficult.
Preschool 1. Arrange with teachers to have kids make costumes and bags during the week beforehand 2. Read a picture book about trick-or-treat 3. Arrange with neighborhood to have candy ready for kids day before. Walk around neighborhood with kids doing trick-or-treat at local stops (post office, bank, store, etc.) (This was an event that was longer than 60 minutes)
EDIT
I just remembered. For one of the games in the middle school, I also did Draw-Your-Own-Monster in which I used English adjectives and body parts for them to draw such as THREE BIG HEADS, 10 HAIRY NOSES. ETC. Adjectives needed to be from the textbook, so it is best to consult with local ALT about what adjectives the grade level knows. I also drew it on the board with the kids to help them get an idea. Then have them share and see which monster is the weirdest.
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Post by King Quailbee on Aug 30, 2016 14:02:13 GMT 9
no yark sharkOh woah. Thriller? Haha. Super IBUNKA KOULYU. Maybe I could do both?? Do you recall what categories you had for the costume contest other than ages? Also, why were the ES students so jaded about the mystery boxes?!
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Post by no yark shark on Aug 30, 2016 14:02:45 GMT 9
Oh yeah I also gave a presentation explaining Halloween at my event too. Edit: I will see if I can also upload my ballot. Costume Contest Ballot.pdf (152.71 KB) I apologize if there's a Japanese mistake on there. Not sure if it's the final version.
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Post by no yark shark on Aug 30, 2016 14:15:25 GMT 9
and ONE MORE THING I will add about how I pulled off the costume contest. My soup was doing check-in and she made a separate list with all of the participants for each category. We also had different colored stickers we put on the participants nametags to mark the categories to call them up at the end.
It's very important to have volunteers to pull off a costume contest with a lot of people so you can have someone to keep track of the names, get everyone gathered, and then count the ballots. Also I forgot to bring pens for the ballot so don't do that.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 14, 2016 13:06:12 GMT 9
Hi so I decided to jazz up my event flyer from last year and I found these super cute borders on irasutoya. That is all.
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Post by King Quailbee on Sept 14, 2016 13:32:07 GMT 9
Hi so I decided to jazz up my event flyer from last year and I found these super cute borders on irasutoya. That is all. Post of the year.
Semi-update Not gonna be doing a Halloween event after careful considering of how my town is set-up and future goal of being invited to more schools... Gonna attend 校長先生 meeting to advertise about doing 全校 Halloween school visit event in their 体育館.
We will see how this goes, but I am sure I will use those super cute borders for my ちらし
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 14, 2016 13:48:31 GMT 9
Hmmm so I printed it out and my border is really blurry/pixelated because the image wasn't very big :\
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Post by King Quailbee on Sept 14, 2016 13:52:27 GMT 9
Hmmm so I printed it out and my border is really blurry/pixelated because the image wasn't very big :\ ???
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 29, 2016 14:17:26 GMT 9
At my halloween event last year I did a game rotation thing. We had three "stations" and divided the kids into groups that moved around between the stations.
Station Numero Uno: Ghost bowling! Filled a bunch of empty and clean PET bottles with tissues (the site I stole this idea from used cotton balls but those are nowhere to be found) and used black ゴムテープ to make faces on the ghosts. Set up the ghosts in normal bowling shape, give the kids a ball (I used a cheap plastic basketball cause it was orange...) and give them two chances to knock down the ghosts. You can maybe have them stand different distances depending on their ages.
Station Numero Dos: Witch hat ring toss! I bought some traffic cones at daiso and used constrution paper to make them look like witches' hats. I couldn't find rings of the right size, so I made three rings out of hose and wrapped them with ゴムテープ to make the (slightly wonky) rings, each of slightly different sizes. Try to get them on the witches' hats! Again, can do this from a couple distances.
Station Numero Tres: Halloween Concentration! I made a set of concentration (神経衰弱) cards with various Halloween-y pictures (pumpkin, ghost, witch, candy, etc) and had them play concentration. They know the game so it was simple to explain.
Before the games, at the center's request, I read a picture book. Then afterwards we did trick-or-treat. The kids had already made little baskets that they collected the candy into.
Apparently it was very good last year and I was asked to do it again. Unfortunately the ALTs helped me last time and they can't this year... I was also asked to do a picture book reading again, and am lost cause I don't know any.... They asked me to do it in English and do lose translations afterwards. Any suggestions for Halloweeny books?
I was also thinking of teaching Itsy Bitsy Spider, if there's time.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 29, 2016 15:13:40 GMT 9
CaptainSeery ooh! those games sound good! In addition to crafts and maybe some simple things like ふくわらい/Making a Jack O'Lantern Matching game with paper plates, I wanted to do a "halloween relay"/obstacle course kind of activity with a mummy race, "witch's broom" limbo, and throwing plastic spiders at a spider web to make them stick and I needed one more obstacle/game to put in there. Also I need to decide which crafts I'm doing. last year I just cut out a bunch of pumpkins and bats and gave the kids a bunch of sequins/crayons/glitter glue/black paper cut in triangles and mouth shapes for the pumpkins and I think it worked well, but I feel like I ought to do something different because I'm sure it'll be a lot of the same people and I thought I'd try something more complicated/involved. I found some really cute ones like using half an apple and orange paint to print pumpkins, making bats out of toilet paper tubes and making haunted houses out of milk cartons but I can't decide...
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 29, 2016 16:19:31 GMT 9
Ooh, those are fun! I was told I can use the same activities as last year but I'd like to mix it up a little bit at least. Maybe I'll steal some of yours.
What's the mummy race? And when you throw the spiders at the web, what kind of web is it?
I like those crafts! The toilet paper tube bat one seems fun and pretty easy but potentially messy if you paint the toilet paper tube. At one of my preschool visits we used veggies and paint to stamp designs on paper, which was fun! I bet apples would make a really good pumpkin, and then the kids can also draw jack-o-lantern faces when they dry, which would be fun. It could also get messy but probably less so than the bats. But the apples could get expensive.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 29, 2016 16:23:52 GMT 9
Ooh, those are fun! I was told I can use the same activities as last year but I'd like to mix it up a little bit at least. Maybe I'll steal some of yours. What's the mummy race? And when you throw the spiders at the web, what kind of web is it? I like those crafts! The toilet paper tube bat one seems fun and pretty easy but potentially messy if you paint the toilet paper tube. At one of my preschool visits we used veggies and paint to stamp designs on paper, which was fun! I bet apples would make a really good pumpkin, and then the kids can also draw jack-o-lantern faces when they dry, which would be fun. It could also get messy but probably less so than the bats. But the apples could get expensive. Mummy Race is having kids wrap each other in toilet paper and then having them run a race/and then race to take it off or some combination of the above. For the spiderweb, I was thinking the fake spiderweb you'd use to decorate your house. I saw some at Daiso the other day. Those are my thoughts exactly on the bats and the pumpkin printing but I really want to try...I've also seen pumpkin prints made with potatoes which would be doable and cheaper, but I feel like apples would work better, but last year there were 50 kids at the event and I'm currently up to around 20 (event is on October 16th)
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 29, 2016 16:32:24 GMT 9
Well you won't need an apple a kid, they are capable of sharing (presumably).... You'd probably want one half every... five kids at the most. Which would be five apples for fifty kids. Depending on budget and if you can get cheap apples (it's not like they need to taste good for this) you could very easily do more. I can usually get maybe 3-4 apples for 500 yen. If you limit yourself to 1000 yen it should be enough?
How old are the kids? If they're elementary school at least they should be able to keep paint off of themselves and other things as long as you lay down newspaper or plastic first.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 29, 2016 16:42:48 GMT 9
Well you won't need an apple a kid, they are capable of sharing (presumably).... You'd probably want one half every... five kids at the most. Which would be five apples for fifty kids. Depending on budget and if you can get cheap apples (it's not like they need to taste good for this) you could very easily do more. I can usually get maybe 3-4 apples for 500 yen. If you limit yourself to 1000 yen it should be enough? How old are the kids? If they're elementary school at least they should be able to keep paint off of themselves and other things as long as you lay down newspaper or plastic first. I have a few 6-7 year old お兄さんs and お姉さんs but a lot of the kids are pretty young, like 2-4. They're all participating with parents though so I think it should be fine as long as I put down newspaper and provide wet wipes. I've seen vegetable prints hanging up in the preschools before on my visits so I know they can do it with supervision. And that's true, I suppose I wouldn't need too many. I can spend up to about a man or so, so it will probably be fine, especially since there are some things I had to buy last year that I now have.
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 29, 2016 17:07:40 GMT 9
Oh, with a man you should be totally fine! I do think the more apples the better, but it's not necessary to have that many. But it will be more fun if they only have to share with a couple other people.
And you should be fine with the parents' supervision, I think.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 29, 2016 17:10:07 GMT 9
Oh, with a man you should be totally fine! I do think the more apples the better, but it's not necessary to have that many. But it will be more fun if they only have to share with a couple other people. And you should be fine with the parents' supervision, I think. hue I completely forgot what I wrote in the previous post and was really confused for a second. But yeah I think it'll be fine, but also candy for 50 kids is expensive >.<
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 29, 2016 17:15:56 GMT 9
Yes, you totally need a man (as in 男) in order to pull off this event. Us women don't have the stamina.
Ooooh I forgot about candy. I was just thinking about apples and spider webs from Daiso and smaller things like that.
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Post by no yark shark on Sept 30, 2016 8:50:59 GMT 9
Yes, you totally need a man (as in 男) in order to pull off this event. Us women don't have the stamina. Ooooh I forgot about candy. I was just thinking about apples and spider webs from Daiso and smaller things like that. yeah, I do a costume contest and I give candy to everyone who participates. I just looked at my budget and last year I spent like 6300 on Candy...
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Post by King Quailbee on Oct 3, 2016 9:17:42 GMT 9
Hey everyone, So far I'm getting the requests rolling in for Halloween and one of them will be with the entire school of 120 JHS students. Fortunately, there will be teachers there to help (and I am planning to arrange an uchiawase). I haven't yet gotten the request of what games/crafts they want to do, but I think I may be more allowing a lot more craft activities/games and make it more of a centers style.
I was trying to think of the best NAGARE/flow for the event without it turning into chaos (thankfully all staff will be there to help out so it's not 1 versus 120). In addition, I'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to divide up so that not a bunch of people race to one center and ignore the other. (Perhaps handing a Halloween color paper when they are entering the 体育館?? Or handing out tickets so that they can freely choose what they want to do kind of like a carnival?)
I was thinking the following: 1. Short presentation on Halloween (origins, words, photos - basically visual representation) 2. Have whatever colors or group they are put in start out at certain corners of the room for different centers. 3. Trick-or-treat Finale (I'm thinking of having some teachers return at a certain point to the classrooms so the kids actually go and walk around and get candy)
The games I have: 1. Mystery box (guess what's inside) 2. Ghosts in the Graveyard 3. Monster (Murderer game) 4. Bob-for-Mikans 5. Mummy Toilet Paper Race 6. Pumpkin Relay Race
Crafts: 1. Mask-making 2. Trick-or-treat bag making 3. Mikan Jack-o-Lantern
SO OVERALL, what I'm asking is: 1. How best to divide students up and have them try a variety of stuff? (Since certain games are shorter than others and crafts take a longer time) 2. What games/crafts should be cut out? (is it age appropriate?)
Time is 40-60 min.
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Post by King Quailbee on Oct 6, 2016 14:32:59 GMT 9
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Post by no yark shark on Oct 6, 2016 14:52:23 GMT 9
oh I saw that when I was looking for stuff! I don't think I'll do it this time but let me know how it goes! also speaking of spiderwebs I'm hoping to do this craft if I can find popsicle sticks:
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Post by CaptainSeery on Oct 6, 2016 15:44:46 GMT 9
Oooh that's a fun one I could probably do pretty easily, no yark shark. I might steal that idea. Did you get it from a site somewhere?
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Post by King Quailbee on Oct 6, 2016 16:12:51 GMT 9
no yark shark You could use wooden chopsticks that are pre-glued?
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Post by no yark shark on Oct 6, 2016 16:41:23 GMT 9
Oooh that's a fun one I could probably do pretty easily, no yark shark . I might steal that idea. Did you get it from a site somewhere? blog.consumercrafts.com/kids-stuff/halloween-crafts-for-kids-webs/there's the site I took that image for. I originally saw the craft on pinterest, and if you just google "popsicle stick spider web" than lots of things show up. I also thought it might make nice snowflakes for christmas with glitter :3
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Post by dr. pussy popper on Aug 29, 2018 11:55:27 GMT 9
derp, didnt realize that a separate thread existed for halloween specific events! going to cross post from the general event thread:
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