Stickers On Top Of Crayon
The 90 stickers change how long the poster holds attention. A child who has colored one corner can start placing pumpkins, ghosts, witches, bats, skeletons, candy and haunted houses instead of drifting off, and a younger one who cannot stay inside the lines still has a job. Leftover stickers go onto notebooks, party bags and homemade cards afterwards.
Spread Across The Rug
Six feet of poster does not need a table. Taped at the corners to a floor, a deck or a long strip of hallway it gives a group of children room to lie down and work from both sides. Teachers who run stations put it on the carpet as one of three or four activities, where it absorbs a steady rotation of small groups.
Finished Art On The Wall
The point of a group project is what happens when it is done. Taped to a classroom wall or across a hallway the finished poster becomes the decoration for the rest of October, with every child able to point at the part they colored. At home it goes up in a playroom or a garage, and it rolls around a tube when the month ends.
Spooky Scenes To Fill In
The printed illustrations are detailed rather than a few large outlines, which gives older children something worth working on and keeps the sheet going past the first hour. Pumpkins, ghosts and haunted houses sit among smaller details that reward a fine tip marker. Two children can color the same scene from opposite ends without their work meeting in the middle.
