Post date: Oct 23, 2015 8:42:00 PM
These are some fun, free iOS apps from yesterday's Tech and Treat webinar, along with three free Halloween iBooks.
Thanks Lori Gracey and TCEA!
Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents Magazine - Choose from five different pumpkin styles. Then either "carve" a design of your own or pick from their library of wacky eyes, noses, and mouths. Add a message and you're ready to share your creation.
Crazy Pumpkin - Once you create your digital jack-o-lantern, you shake your device and it changes colors and makes scary and haunting sounds.
Doodle Buddy - Have students take a selfie and then upload the selfie as a background in Doodle Buddy. Use the tools in the app to decorate their faces for Halloween. Or draw a skull over their faces and create a Dia de los Muertos sugar skull.
eGourd - Very realistic pumpkin carving app that goes beyond basic jack-o-lantern faces. Have students use bubble letters to write their spelling words or math facts on the pumpkin.
Guess Who I Am - Halloween Monsters Edition - This is a fun deductive game great for all ages.
Halloween Card Creator - Kids create ecards with various choices in backgrounds, characters, and their own images and text. Have the students email the e-cards to friends or family members.
Haunted Hangman - Guess the Halloween word and get a pumpkin with treats. If you lose, the pumpkin is carved and becomes sad.
Halloween Spooky Sound Box - This app has 50 free sound effects. Have students write a scary short story (on paper) and include the sounds like a rebus. Then when reading the story aloud, they can press the sound on the app for maximum effect.
Horror Fingers - Dress your fingers up. Then create finger chants and make them sing/talk with apps like YakIt for Kids or Chatterpix Kids.
Landon's Pumpkins - LAZ Reader- This book has several features to help kids follow along the story and learn vocabulary. At the end, a recipe is given for Roasted Pumpkin seeds, which would be a great reward for a teacher to make with a class after reading a story.
Make a Zombie - This app lets you choose background, bodies, clothes, eyes, hairstyles, heads, legs, and mouths. A follow-up task includes having students get into pairs. Student A describes the zombie created. Student B must try to recreate the zombie with only the verbal description. Make sure the students save the zombie to their photo library to compare. You can also have your students create stories or poems about their zombies and read them in a circle aloud.
MASH: Halloween Edition - This app is for teens. Teens type in various choices for categories and, at the end, this app tells their future. Have the students work in pairs to complete and then read the fortune to each other. Some of these deal with romance, costumes, and more.
Math Monsters - Bingo - The objective of the game is to find the Math Monsters hidden under the tiles as you answer addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems correctly.
Math Tales - Trick or Treat - Good basic counting app for younger students.
Millie's Book of Tricks and Treats - Enjoy this interactive book app about Millie the dog and what she wants for Halloween. There is also a Millie's Book of Tricks and Treats, Volume 2 available.
Mr Pumpkin Free - Decorate your very own pumpkin.
Number Chase - Math vs Zombies - The object of the game is to correctly solve as many addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems as possible before the zombies catch you.
Pocket Charts! Happy Halloween! Match Game - Based on the pocket chart activities found in kindergarten classrooms, this app allows very young students to match items with a Halloween theme.
Sago Mini Monsters - Create your own loveable monsters for Halloween.
Scary Prank - This app looks like a regular game. But eventually something scary will jump out at you. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!
Talking Skeleton - Like the famous Talking Tom app, kids speak and an animated skeleton repeats their words in a funny voice. Their messages can be recorded through video and sent to parents in an email. Have the students send Halloween greetings to their families or friends or create a video of them doing a Halloween rap.
Toca Boo - This is a fun app for younger children in which they can hide in a virtual house and scare different characters.
Zombiematic Camera - Take a photo and turn the face into a zombie.
Halloween Stores: Spooky Short Stories for Kids
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/halloween-stories-spooky-short/id1040635035?mt=11
Moore Zombies: The Search for Gargoy
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/moore-zombies-search-for-gargoy/id957549260?mt=11
Hank's Halloween
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hanks-halloween/id568609508?mt=13