Halloween Activities for Kindergarten

Halloween week can be fun and engaging for kids if you know what resources to use! Today we'll be sharing all things Halloween: literacy and math activities, free printables, interactive games, songs, videos, crafts, books you can use, and so much more!

Halloween Literacy Activities for Kindergarten

If you need to practice phonics, sight words, and just in general do some fun word work, make sure to check out these digital activities.

You can use these paperless activities for:

morning work
centers
assessment
homework
early finishers
literacy rotations
independent practice
smartboard activities
PowerPoint activities (just save the original file in Google Slides as PPT and use in edit mode on any device so that moveable pieces would work here as well)
virtual lesson follow-up
asynchronous learning, etc.

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Halloween Sight Word Activities

This is not directly Halloween related but monsters have always been about Halloween for me! Kids will build sentences with sight words in a fun way!

Halloween Sight Word Activities with Monsters

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Halloween Literacy Centers

Need fun and low-prep literacy centers to practice CVC words in sentences? Download these Free Halloween Phonics Sentences.

Halloween Word Search

This is an amazing idea to get kids moving and work with Halloween vocabulary!

Learn more: Giant Halloween Word Search.

Halloween Emergent Reader

If you need to practice reading skills, check out this Halloween Emergent Reader. This reader is also a perfect intro to costumes demonstration!!!

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Ways to use Halloween Emergent Reader

Sometimes I directly use it in Google Slides (through Google Classroom) where kids read a sentence and then drag a star to a certain word. This way is possible only in EDIT MODE.
If you'd love to use it in PRESENTATION MODE, kids will just read sentences (visual and oral work).
If you are offline, download the Google Slides set (beforehand) by saving as a PDF document. Open for a kid on a tablet and let him/her read and tap to the next slide.
Save as a PDF document and print the pages. Let the kids touch the paper and read.

Halloween Math Activities for Kindergarten

Need engaging Halloween Math Activities to practice addition and subtraction to 10? Have fun with this Google Slides set. Perfect to use for centers, assessment, independent practice, early finishers, homework, group work, as well as during distance learning or hybrid.

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Build a Halloween Geometric Bat

This is a fun way to practice 2D shapes and engage kids at the same time!

Learn more: Halloween Geometric Bat – FREE DOWNLOAD.

Candy Corn Math Ideas

Use candy corn and practice math in many engaging ways!

Learn more: 3 Candy Corn Math Ideas for Hands-on Learning.

Fact Family Pumpkin Game

This game is hands-on and perfect to practice fact families or addition and subtraction.

Learn more: Fact Family Pumpkin Game Halloween Activity.

Halloween Writing Prompts for Kindergarten

One of the best ways to practice writing is to use writing prompts during Halloween week! Your students will write about bats, pumpkins, what they know about Halloween, and much more!

You can use these Halloween Writing Prompts as:

no-prep activities;
craftivity;
interactive notebook;
paperless activity for Google Slides.

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Halloween Books for Kindergarten

"I need my Monster" by Amanda Noll

After reading, make sure to let kids create their own monsters. Then ask kids to describe their monsters by using sentence starters "My monster is...", "My monster has...", "My monster can...".

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"Spiders" by National Geographic

After reading the book, divide kids into 2 or 3 groups and ask them to tell the facts about spiders they have learned from the book. The group with the most facts wins.