Incorporating Halloween into KS2 PE Lesson Plans
With some creative thinking, lesson planning can be adapted to maximise festivities without missing out on vital primary curriculum work. Here’s a few suggestions of how you can adapt our KS2 PE Lesson Plans to incorporate Halloween…
Halloween has crept upon us, which means the start of the festival period. It’s such an exciting time in Primary Schools, but it can be difficult fitting all the extra-curricular activities around curriculum work. With some creative thinking, PE lesson planning can be adapted to maximise festivities without missing out on vital curriculum work. Here’s a few suggestions of how you can adapt our KS2 PE Lesson Plans to incorporate Halloween…
KS2 PE Lesson Plan adaptations
PE Activity – Steeplechase
The concept of the game stays the same, but the focus is Halloween characters. Commands could include:
Witch on a broom – jump as high as possible to try get on a broom
Crazy Pumpkin – jump in different directions
Scary Scary – small backwards jumps
Fallen Zombie – jump as far forward as possible to jump over the fallen zombies
Black Cat – leap forwards
PE Activity – Stuck in the Middle
‘Keep the Pumpkin!’ The children work in small groups keeping the pumpkin (ball) away from the zombie (pupil in the middle). If the ‘zombie’ wins the ball, they come back to life, and come out of the middle. The child who passed the pumpkin last now becomes the zombie.
PE Activity – Ducks to Water
Explain to the children that the cones are treats and the hoops are the houses to visit when trick or treating. The children move around from ‘house to house’ collecting treats. Children must move around in different ‘spooky’ ways. This could be pouncing like a black cat or tiptoeing like a ghoul or ghost.
PE Activity – Gymnastics Circuits
Play some spooky Halloween music and ask the children to create routines using various pieces of equipment and apparatus. Encourage groups to create characters and move around staying in character and to the music.
Find all our Key Stage 2 PE lesson plans here, and don’t forget we have lots of free plans and resources.
Calendar Resources
In our resources part of the website, our calendar resources include games and activities for a wide variety of events throughout the year. A Halloween favourite is ‘Vampire and Werewolves’. Try it this Halloween and let us know what you think! A good stand-alone brain-break game, or it can be incorporated into your Key Stage 2 PE lessons.
Need more Lesson Plan Inspiration?
There are so many ways to bring a Halloween theme to your PE lessons. As well as those above, try these spooky-themed PE activities:
- Monster Tag: Choose a few children to be ‘monsters’ who chase the others. Each time a child is tagged, they must do a fun exercise (for example, five jumping jacks) to ‘come back to life’! This would be a great wam up activity, and helps build agility and cardio strength.
- Haunted Obstacle Course: Set up an obstacle course with Halloween-themed stations – such as crawl under a ‘spiderweb’ (ropes or string), jump over ‘tombstones’ (cones), or walk like a zombie across a balance beam.
- Mummy Wrap Race: In teams, one child is the ‘mummy,’ and the others wrap them up with toilet paper or white streamers. Then the mummy has to carefully walk or shuffle to the finish line. This is great for teamwork!
- Cauldron Toss: Use buckets/boxes as ‘cauldrons’ and soft balls or beanbags as ‘ingredients.’ Children have to throw the ingredients into the cauldron to complete the magic potion. This is great for target throwing and aiming skills!
Have a great Halloween!
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