We did a bit of decorating of the library foyer for Halloween, to promote reading - according to the students, it's 'cool', so that's a nice accolade. It wasn't hard to fill the bookcase with fantasy/magic/spooky/wizardly books, although I must admit to a soft spot for Anticraft: Knitting, beading and stitching for the slightly sinister...
We made the bookmarks you can see in one of the pictures (I use Publisher, and have a preset blank I've made and saved on which I put the current theme) and the pennants and tags. One of my co-workers had the pumpkin light, and that was where it all started... No lollies, and we stayed away from the icky end of it. Lights, corndolly decorations and beads from Ikea, fabric and little skeletons/spiders from Spotlight, large skeleton from a two dollar shop, cardboard is standard colours, fonts sourced from the site I mentioned here, Twilight poster from Dolly, a couple of book promo pieces gifted by the lovely local independent bookshop. The Ikea stuff and fabric were the most expensive ingredients (and also reusable), while the rest is largely ingenuity and time. We'll box it up next week and have some more fun next year.
My favourite of our slogans:
The TRICK with reading:
TREAT yourself to a book (from your school library).
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