Middle School Halloween

I wanted to make a blog post out of a neat blog comment that was left tonight. 

A comment from someone in the Halloween community who is keeping the torch burning and helping to create nostalgia in the classroom.

The old post is here and it featured the below photo.

VenomStorm commented:

You will be happy to know that I have the smaller version of that skeleton and that exact witch hanging in my 6th grade classroom on the 1st of October. That witch is part of a nice package that Beistle sells. I love using the retro decorations combined with modern LEDs in my classroom. The kids get a kick out of them. Certainly helps with building up the hype to Halloween. I want to start playing the Silver Shamrock countdown this year. As much as I need to be home setting up the house, there is something really fun and magical about being in a middle school on Halloween. Even these modern kids who grew up too fast because of the internet can still experience the wonder and excitement of that day and night, at least in my corner of the world.

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Memories Of Halloweens Past

The next entry for this fun blog series comes from Raven176.  It's a rare and unique paper decoration of Frankenstein's monster.  "Probably the best dollar my parents ever spent," he shared.  "Fifty plus years now.  Surprised beyond belief that he survived three kids and two dogs.  It's not Halloween without the big guy."

I love this submission, as paper decorations were the thing back when I was growing up.  You'd see something like this or a Dracula or that wonderful Beistle skeleton hanging on a front door as you walked to school in those final weeks of October.  

I did some searching, and it seems this particular decoration was something you could order along with Boney the Skeleton.  They would come with glow-in-the-dark stickers that could be placed over the eyes.  As a kid, that would have been pure magic having something like that hanging on the back of my bedroom door.

Thanks for sharing, Raven176!

Click here to see past submissions.

For anyone interested in submitting, you can email me at pumpkinrot @ gmail . com (remove the spaces, of course!)

Old School

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His IG here.

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And click here for a short reel.

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