Haunted Houses taught by Heather Dearing

We practiced making our haunted houses first by talking about what shapes we see in a few pictures of haunted houses. Then we designed our own house using geometric shapes, such as, square, rectangle, oval, trapezoid and a triangle. Once we had our design we sketched it out on a larger sheet of paper. Then we took a black crayon and colored in our house. We colored the whole house so that it would resist the watercolor that we used to color the sky.
An extension activity that you could do is have them talk about where haunted houses came from. Or what makes a house haunted. Or even just talking about abandoned houses and why when you drive outside of Aberdeen to some of these rural areas why their are abandoned houses out there. Also could relate it to urban and rural areas within social studies.