Helping Students Build Strong Bones
Celebrate Halloween with Best Bones Forever!
Halloween is the perfect time to talk about bone health! Try some of these ideas to celebrate the holiday Best Bones Forever! style!
- Throw a Halloween party—whether you’re having a fall festival or an actual Halloween party at your school or program, you can include some of these fun elements:
- A bone health trivia game with prizes of journals or magnets
- Tattoo application station with the “exskullmation” point tattoos
- Smoothie taste tests (Try a “boo-berry” smoothie with blueberries, yogurt, and milk.)
- “Pumpkin” punch with calcium-fortified orange juice and club soda or ginger ale
- Costume contest—play up the friendship theme in Best Bones Forever! by encouraging students to dress up as famous friends through history
- Halloween lesson plans
- Social Studies or Computer classes
- Art
- Borrow a life-size skeleton from the science teachers (or put a picture of one up in the room) and have the students sketch it. They can individualize their skeletons by making them do a physical activity, like gymnastics or playing basketball, based on their own interests.
- Language Arts
- Encourage students to write a Halloween-themed poem, story, skit, or song about how they and their best friends are getting active and eating healthy.
- Scary Stories
- Math
Content last updated August 2010
