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I love the building the letters with erasers activity. These family-friendly Halloween movies are perfect for kids of all ages! Kids will love seeing how their favorite characters celebrate Halloween. Buddy game- quiz the class with your little buddy.great activity for 6th/3rd graders or 7th/2nd grade buddies Collecting Data - Are you afraid of spiders? - I like this template for other topics as well... Awesome kids' science activity for Halloween!
To use this activity independently, students will read the number on the pumpkin and put that many candies in the pumpkin. This snack is great to treat your students to all fall long, but is perfect to use around Halloween. This could even be a fall or Halloween party snack for your students.
Halloween Ideas for Kindergarten
Little ones will work on counting and beginning sounds with this packet of printables. Preschoolers will love this Halloween Colors sorting activity! It's the perfect preschool math center for October. This is directions you could post for students who are completing a STEM activity by building the tallest tower. Your students will FLIP over this counting game. They pick a recipe card and count out the objects to create the witches’ brew!
Plan a fun sensory bin for the other students to play in while you help with the costumes. Make this Halloween-themed sensory bin with black beans, pumpkin gems, and small pumpkin containers. Add in some scoops and small containers to practice counting, sorting, and one-to-one correspondence.
Halloween Math and Literacy Centers
What we love about toilet paper monster crafts is you can get as silly as you want with them! There is no right or wrong way to decorate your monster craft it really is a very open ended project, as far as crafts go. And if you intend to make these in a classroom, just imagine the wonderfully spooky monster army your kindergarten students will create. Do you need some quick Halloween activities for your Kindergarten - First grade class with a Halloween theme?
Playdough trays are the BEST thing ever, as my students would tell you. I make one for every theme now because they LOVE them so much, and there are so many benefits . Grab some cookie cutters, googly eyes, cut-up black pipe cleaners , spider rings, and play dough. Let your students create Halloween sculptures with the play dough. Little learners will love to make shapes with these cute mummy shapes cards!
Pumpkin Patch in a Cup Snack
Then cut it into smaller strips. Students make patterns with mini erasers, pom poms, Halloween candy, or any other small manipulatives. I like to have the sensory bin made ahead of time, so students can play while I help put on costumes. Costumes can be tricky to put on so most students will need help getting their costumes on.
Decorations- Each student gets a cup filled with items to decorate their house with. This can be prepped the night before or the morning of to make set-up easier. I gave them candy corn, M&M’s, cereal, candy bats, ghosts, and pumpkins, and a ghost marshmallow. Stick straws or rods into a playdough ball. Then students will roll a die and place that many spider rings on the straw. If you have younger students, skip the die and just have them place spiders on the straw for a fun hand-eye coordination activity.
Check out this post for more ideas for holiday-themed sensory bins. I like to have a Halloween card-making station for students to make cards for their family or friends. This is an authentic reason to get kiddos writing! I lay out all kinds of writing utensils, paper, stickers, and Halloween word cards. I like to do this the morning of the party.
This will take some time, so be sure to allot plenty of time for this Halloween activity and prep as much as you can before the party. These are a great way to sneak in math during the party! There are mats for pom poms, playdough, pattern blocks, and linking cubes. Students create the picture and then trace the word while making their fine motor muscles super strong. Use toilet paper rolls for bowling pins and small pumpkins for bowling balls.
I do this the night before or the morning of the party to make it easier during the party chaos. Autumn offers just enough sunshine to make these really shine. All you need is a bit of black paper – show the kids how to make the outline as most of them will be able to cut it out on their own. Glue it on contact paper and let the kids tear and glue tissue paper on the suncatcher. Halloween is a wonderful holiday to get crafty with your little ones!
Students can even trace them with a dry-erase marker. Place witch fingers at the table and students can trace the number with the witch finger. In my library center, you will find this cute Halloween Color Clip matching activity. Students clip the matching color squares. It’s bright, sparkly, and a great fine motor task! Just paint some clothespins and attached foam stickers to the end.
Here’s to a fun and imagination-filled Halloween season for you and your students. There are also fall, fire safety, and anytime-themed writing prompts included, making these writing prompts perfect to use all October long. Here are some of my favorite, not so spooky read alouds that are perfect for kindergarteners around Halloween. Add these Halloween beginnings sounds cut and paste worksheets to your holiday literacy or fine motor lessons. Fill your classroom or homeschool area with these fun Halloween activities!
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