figurative language

While studying figurative language around this time of year

I like to have the students write descriptive sentences to 

describe a haunted house or something spooky. 

Simply make a template and have students trace the 

house pattern on black construction paper. Cut out doors

and window and fold to open. Back the house cut-out with

bright yellow paper. Behind each window and door students

write a figurative language sentence or phrase to describe 

the scene. I love some of the choices..."the wind whispered

through the halls of the house," and "the old floorboards 

shrieked as I stepped on them." 

When all students have finished decorate the outside 

with chalk or white crayons. We lined up these houses on

bunched up and crumpled up brown paper bags to create 

a "street" and the students named the streets with 

eerie names. This idea can be altered to fit parts of speech, 

vocabulary, etc... have fun!