Celebrating Halloween isn’t just a one day thing… it’s a holiday that is celebrated the entire month of October! These Halloween activities, Halloween crafts, and Halloween games are the perfect addition to your centers, literacy block, and Halloween classroom party! Your students are sure to have a spooktacular time with these learning-filled Halloween activities for kindergarten and first grade!

Halloween Activities for Read Alouds

One of my favorite ways to celebrate Halloween in the classroom is with a variety of Halloween read alouds. We pair these Halloween books with crafts, math activities, literacy centers, and more!

Room on the Broom Activities

“Room on the Broom” is the perfect read aloud to celebrate Halloween, without explicitly mentioning the holiday! After reading this Halloween book, we work on these 22 engaging Room on the Broom activities. These Halloween activities are great for sequencing the events in the story, identifying character traits, determining cause and effect, recognizing rhyming words and more!

There are also five math and five literacy Room on the Broom centers you can use throughout the month of October or as part of your Halloween classroom party!

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Ten Timid Ghosts Math Activities

Ten Timid Ghosts is my favorite Halloween story to read during our math block! It lends itself so well for working on building number sense, subitizing, and decomposing ten. Here are three of my favorite Ten Timid Ghosts math activities!

Nonfiction Halloween Activities

Easily integrate science, math, literacy and social studies into any of these nonfiction Halloween activities! After learning all about pumpkins, bats, and spiders, students create a handy interactive shape book containing all sorts of facts they learned along the way!

Pumpkin Investigation Activities

Pumpkins are a Halloween staple! Students will love investigating pumpkins with these 20 pumpkin investigation activities and pumpkin craft!

Pumpkin Life Cycle Activities

After reading a variety of nonfiction pumpkin books, we create our pumpkin life cycle anchor chart as a whole class. We then complete our pumpkin life cycle craft and pumpkin life cycle flip flap books.

Bat Activities

Take your bat unit to the next level with these 25 dynamic bat activities and bat craft!

Spider Activities

While some students think spiders are creepy, others think they are cute! No matter their opinion, students will love learning all about spiders with these 25 spider activities and spider craft!

Halloween Activities for Science

Science experiments are always a hit! These Halloween activities for science will instantly boost engagement at your Halloween party!

Flying Ghost Science Experiment

For the Flying Ghost experiment, blow up a white balloon and secure the end with a binder clip. Draw a ghost face on the balloon and tape a straw to the back. Thread about 15 feet of string through the straw and tie the ends to two chairs. Move the chairs apart to make the string taut. Remove the binder clip and watch the ghost fly through the air!

Floating Ghost Science Experiment

For this Floating Ghost experiment, start by drawing a ghost face on a white balloon. Pour ½ cup of vinegar into an empty water bottle and fill the balloon with 1 tablespoon of baking soda. Secure the balloon’s opening around the top of the water bottle. Gently lift the balloon upright so the baking soda falls into the vinegar. The reaction will produce carbon dioxide, inflating the balloon. Be cautious, as too much pressure could cause the balloon to pop loudly.

Ghostly Gak / Halloween Slime

This three-ingredient, no-mess Ghostly Gak Halloween slime is guaranteed to be a hit at your classroom Halloween Party! It offers the perfect balance of stickiness and ooze for a fun sensory activity, is easy to clean up, and is borax-free.

Halloween Activities for Centers

Throughout the month of October, I try to incorporate Halloween activities into our math and literacy centers as much as possible!

Halloween Math and Literacy Centers

Engage your little learners with these 12 Halloween kindergarten centers, including 6 literacy centers and 6 math centers! These Halloween kindergarten centers offer meaningful practice and enrichment of various literacy and math skills covered during the month of October.

Halloween Escape Room Centers

With The Case of the Caper Halloween Escape Room, students are highly engaged as they complete 6 or 8 different challenges, attempt to eliminate the suspects, and discover who has stolen the candy!

Fine Motor Halloween Activities

Strengthen fine motor skills and boost engagement as you indulge in these fine motor Halloween activities and crafts!

Halloween Play Dough Kits

Ignite your students’ creativity and enhance their fine motor skills with these Halloween play dough kits! These Halloween play dough mats provide a perfect sensory experience by promoting learning and keeping little hands busy for hours. They also make excellent non-candy Halloween gifts for students to enjoy at your classroom party!

Mummy Craft

This simple masking tape mummy craft is great for strengthening fine motor muscles, as students tear and stick masking tape to their mummy outline.

Simple Halloween Crafts

From spider crafts, to bat crafts, to pumpkin crafts, and everything in between, these simple Halloween crafts not only strengthen fine motor muscles but they also boost creativity.

Halloween Party Activities

Throwing a classroom Halloween party is no easy feat! With these no prep Halloween party activities, Halloween party games, and Halloween party crafts, your students will have a spooktacular time the entire duration of your party.

No Prep Halloween Party Activities

Halloween Bingo

This Spooky Words bingo game adds just the right touch of magic to make kids forget they’re learning. For added festivity, use themed items like spiders, mini erasers, or candy corn to cover each space.

Spider Race Game

For this Spider Race game, the students roll a die and race to the number 20 on the spider web. To make things extra festive, use some spider rings or mini spider erasers.

Halloween Charades

With this Creepy Charades game, choose one student at a time to act out the card. Then, the class will try to guess the action. After the class has guessed correctly, everyone has a chance to complete the motion. This Halloween game also serves as a great brain break between stations!

Monster Glyph

This monster glyph craft is a fantastic addition to your classroom Halloween party. For this activity, ask students each question and have them color their answers. Then, distribute the monster pieces based on their responses.

Digital Halloween Activities

Take a digital approach to your Halloween classroom party with these no prep digital Halloween party games! 6 digital Halloween activities are included in both PowerPoint and Google Slides.

DIY Halloween Party Games

Halloween party games are what make the party! These DIY Halloween party games are low prep and low cost!

Halloween Treat Containers

Vampire Treat Box

This vampire treat box is a fun way for students to gather candy or treats, both edible and non-edible. Before the party, create these delightful vampire shoe boxes. Just cover a shoe box with black construction paper. Then, cut out a cape from 9×12 paper, use a circle for the head, draw a vampire face, attach foam vampire fangs, and assemble it all together!

Cat Treat Bag

Alternatively, students can create this cat treat bag. Instead of a shoe box, use a black gift bag. Cut out ears, eyes, and a nose from construction paper. Then, draw the mouth and whiskers with a white crayon.

Pumpkin Pie in a Cup

With just a few ingredients and no oven needed, this pumpkin pie in a cup is the perfect fall treat to enjoy in the classroom! This simple no bake pumpkin pie in a cup is one of my favorite ways to wrap up our pumpkin investigation week or to enjoy during our Halloween party!

Thanksgiving Activities

Switch gears and get ready for Thanksgiving with these fiction and nonfiction turkey books for kids!

Discover who stole the pumpkin pie with these highly engaging Thanksgiving escape room centers!

You might also like these FREE “Stuff the Turkey” math games for centers!

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