As a hands-on extension of E.L.A. learning standard 8L5a, 8th graders created D.I.Y. pun costumes for Halloween! With creativity and thoughtfulness, students played on multiple-meaning words or similar-sounding words and brought a pun to life with attire and accessories. Upbeat, modern designs shined in costumes like Social Butterfly, Miss Universe, and Life of the Party. Homemade shirts took many costumes - like the Queen Bee, Ivy League, Brownie/Brown-E, and Mug Shot - to the next level!



After an anonymous class vote through a Google Forms ballot, Burger King and Candy (W)rapper won best costumes! Congratulations Andrew and Sophia!




But EVERYONE did a phenomenal job crafting! Our "POE-TO"  Booth allowed students to pose for a photo with some punny headstones - like Barry D. Live and Pearl E. Gates! Check out the awesome costume designs below!

Ivy League (left) and Hawaiian Punch (right):



Candy (W)rapper (left) and Queen Bee (right):



Pumpkin Pi (left) and Life of the Party (right):



A Separate Piece (left) and Miss Universe (right):



Fantasy Football (left) and Tough Cookie (right):



Brownie/Brown-E (left) and Burger King (right):



Mug Shot (left) and Bounty Hunter (right):





8th graders also enjoyed some snacks - which were made seasonal through puns! Such an easy, but effective, marketing strategy! Word play on similar-sounding words created the following spooky puns: "Ghoul-Aid" sounds like "Kool-Aid;" "X-Scream" sounds like "extreme;" and "Boo Berry" sounds like "blueberry"!



Througout the day's activities, the pale-blue "vulture eye" of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" kept popping up - maybe even often enough to drive someone mad! There were inflatable eyeballs to decorate the "POE-TO Booth," eyeball glasses, numbered eyeballs for random group assignment, eye gumballs for game prizes, and eyeball sticks for a "The Tell-Tale Heart" literary device relay. 



8th graders also participated in Halloween pun activities, like a Halloween Touch & Feel Game with ORGAN-ICKS Slime in the "Boo-nana Skream Pi" and "Slimeghetti and Muckballs" varieties. Several 8th graders blindly reached into a goopy sludge of rubbery mix-ins that were just creepy enough for them to wonder if they were really touching something awful!