Do vocal warmups with spooky sounds.

Echo the sounds that you hear.

This is a movement song and an opportunity to experience 6/8. Teach the song by rote or by immersion.

Play the game with "Halloween Looby Loo".

Parachute-free alternative: Instead of moving with the parachute on the part with the "oo", pretend you're stirring up a brew. You can also sing the song and simply form a circle by joining hands.

Each time they hear the fossils theme (xylophone), have the sutdents pretend to be dinosaurs coming to life in a museum. Each time they hear the fossils theme, have students pretend to be dinosaurs. When the variations play, have the dinosaurs freeze in place so the security guard won't find out they are alive. The teacher (or a group of students) can pretend to be the guard, looking to find the source of the noise.

Optional: Have students identify the form with cards (found in the supplemental materials).

Read the story and play the rhythms with unpitched instruments.

Teach the song by rote.

Game directions: Form a circle and choose one student to go into the middle of the circle. Have the students in the circle face away from the child in the middle. They pat the beat as they sing. At the end of the song, they clap the words "just like that." All the students in the circle jump around so they are facing the child in the middle. They make the scariest faces that they can. The student in the middle (or the teacher) chooses the scariest face to be the next child in the middle. You could have more than one student in the middle to speed up the game.

This is an optional activity for those who celebrate Halloween.
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Change the words "Witch's Cat" to "Kitchen Cat"

Dramatize the song, "Witch's Cat" / "Kitchen Cat"

Act out all the parts of the song.
1. The witches/kitchen cat is sleeping...
2. The little mice are playing ...
3. The little mice are nibbling ...
4. The witches/kitchen cat is stretching ...
5. The witches/kitchen cat is chasing ...