Halloween Activities & Games

This Halloween bingo game includes 40 cards (color and grayscale) with pictures in different spaces. The leader shuffles a set of smaller picture cards and calls out the word. Kids use counters (or candy corn) to mark their matches. Open the preview to take a closer look. You can use this Halloween game for your classroom party, after-school program, scouts, or anywhere! What’s Included:Directions40 different game cards in color24 smaller picture cards (6 per page) in color40 different game

Address your standards with some Halloween poetry! Fourth, fifth, or sixth grade students mark up “The Spider and the Fly” to identify rhyme, dialogue, figurative language. In additional activities, they analyze how changes in characters’ responses affect the outcome, construct responses to describe character traits, and choose the best illustration for the text. Open the preview to take a closer look.What’s Included7-Stanza Poem - "The Spider and the Fly" is specially formatted to let your kids

Kids solve five mystery stories - and practice close reading. You can use the two-page passages as bell ringers, assignments, or centers. They also work well as read-alouds for younger students. These kid-friendly texts encourage critical thinking and deductive reasoning. Students figure out which clues are real and which are false (red herrings). Then they make inferences to solve the mystery! Open the preview to take a closer look.As assignments, you can distribute stories (without a soluti

Five fun Halloween logic puzzles provide October critical thinking activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. Two blank templates let them create their own! You can use them for enrichment or as a part of your classroom party. Open the preview to take a closer look. Grids with four or five matches provide age-appropriate deductive reasoning - not too easy and not too hard. What’s Included:5 puzzles to solve - Kids & Costumes (easier), Little Ghosts' Favorite Animals, Little Witches' T

Sharpen critical thinking this October! Kids in third, fourth, or fifth grade will love these Halloween word and logic puzzles. They’re great as bell ringers, enrichment, or even party activities. Open the preview to take a closer look. Word PuzzlesHink Pinks – Kids study a hint to find two one-syllable words. For example:Hint: group of yelling zombiesAnswer: scream teamHinky Pinkies – They study a hint to find two two-syllable words. For example:Hint: arachnid drinkAnswer: spider ciderScram

Looking for fun Halloween puzzles? Try these! They make great party games or enrichment activities. Your kids will enjoy the variety: hink pinks, hinky pinkies, scrambled words, and word search. Hink Pinks – Kids study a hint to find two one-syllable words. For example: Hint: group of yelling zombies Answer: scream team Hinky Pinkies – They study a hint to find two two-syllable words. For example: Hint: arachnid drink Answer: spider cider Scrambled Words – Kids unscramble the letters to fi

Make multiplication practice fun with 24 Halloween task cards! Kids solve problems with two, three, or four digits times (by, x) one digit. Your third, fourth, or fifth grade students will get up, get moving, and get engaged. Open the preview to take a closer look. Task cards and response sheets are included in full color and grayscale. What’s Included:8 2-digit by 1-digit cards8 3-digit by 1-digit cards8 4-digit by 1-digit cards2-sided response sheet with space for working the problemsAnswe

Looking for a fun Halloween party game? Try Four Corners! Any room will do - your classroom, after-school program, scouts, club, or at home. It's easy! 1. Hang one picture in each corner of the room. 2. Cut out cards and shuffle them. 3. Direct kids to stand in the corner of their choice. 4. Draw a card and call out the name. 5. Students at that corner remain playing; students at other corners are out (must sit down). 6. Play continues until only one child (the winner!) remains. Kids of

Captivate your math class with 20 fun Halloween bell ringers. These October brain teasers sharpen kids’ problem-solving skills. The activities were created fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students, but older kids (and teachers!) will love the challenge. Open the preview to take a closer look. The prompts make great bell ringers (AKA bellwork, question of the day QOTD, starters, do-now, daily class opener DCO, and entry ticket). Solving these Halloween-themed problems requires a big bag of tri

Looking for an active Halloween party game? Let kids swat the picture with a fly swatter! Players stand in two lines. An adult calls the prompt, the first two kids hurry to be first to swat it. It’s loads of fun! Open the preview to take a closer look. What’s included:30 half-page Halloween picturesDirectionsCorresponding prompts You will also need two fly swatters. Prompts include color words, so pages must be printed in color. As an alternative, you can print two of each image on cardsto

Three Halloween party games provide all the fun you need! 1) Swat – Two teams compete to swat the picture. 2) Picture Bingo – Even big groups can play with 40 different cards. 3) Four Corners – Kids choose a corner (witch, mummy, vampire, or Frankenstein). When a character is called, players at other corners are out. Open the previews to take a closer look at the Halloween party games. They’re great for classroom parties but can also be used for after-school programs, scouts, at home – or whe

This Halloween argumentative project lets you work on opinion or persuasive writing, choose a prompt, and differentiate with three levels of organizers. Kids improve writing with word choice, sentence variety, elaboration, and flow. Thirteen suggested prompts, writing paper, and assessment are included. Open the preview to take a closer look at the six sets. Each includes multiple prompts, three levels of organizers (basic one-paragraph, detailed one-paragraph, and five-paragraph), and writing

Looking for a quick Halloween reading passage with questions? Grab this one-page informational text on the history of this October holiday! It will make a great addition to your third, fourth, or fifth grade file. Open the preview to take a closer look.Resources are included in a printable PDF (color and grayscale).Enjoy teaching! Brenda Kovich

Help Frankie solve perimeter and area word problems in his haunted house! Open-ended math worksheets with pictures will engage your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Kids love the fun, real-world Halloween practice. Open the preview to take a look at each worksheet. Eight basic tasks provide plenty of practice. First, they analyze the holiday prompt and corresponding picture.Second, they tell if the solution requires them to find area or perimeter.Third, they decide which operations to

Make multiplication practice fun with 24 Halloween task cards! Kids solve problems with two or three digits times (by, x) two digits. Your fourth or fifth grade students will get up, get moving, and get engaged. Open the preview to take a closer look. Task cards and response sheets are included in full color and grayscale. What’s Included:12 2-digit by 2-digit cards12 3-digit by 2-digit cards2-sided response sheet with space for working the problemsAnswer key Enjoy teaching! Brenda Kovich

Make division practice fun with 24 Halloween task cards! Kids solve problems with two, three, or four digits times (by, x) one digit. Your fourth or fifth grade students will get up, moving, and engaged. Open the preview to take a closer look. Task cards and response sheets are included in full color and grayscale. What’s Included:8 2-digit by 1-digit cards8 3-digit by 1-digit cards8 4-digit by 1-digit cards2-sided response sheet with space for working the problemsAnswer key Enjoy teachin

Practice multiplication facts with a fun Halloween bingo game! Two games (2s-5s and 6s-9s) let you focus on specific areas of need or differentiate. Prompts to call out are sequenced to maximize playing time. Five color or black-and-white cards are included in each math game. Open the preview to take a closer look. Your students will love the cute Dracula and Frankenstein cards. You’ll love the engagement! Enjoy teaching! Brenda Kovich

Looking for an October literature lesson with a Halloween twist? In this activity, fourth or fifth grade students read a passage (“The Little Bat Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed”), find a theme, and construct a response. Open the preview to take a closer look. Suggested learning sequence:Introduce the process with an anchor chart. Read “The Little Bat Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed.” In this two-page story, little Bat refuses to go to bed. Against his parents’ advice, he ventures into the forest during the day.

This Halloween-themed multiplication kit teaches the facts and increases fluency. Flash cards help kids learn; charts record process; and timed tests or worksheets provide practice. It’s everything you need to move your students to mastery! Open the preview to take a closer look.1. Halloween Multiplication Facts ChartsUse the completed chart to keep track of which facts kids know. The teacher, an aide, or a parent calls out facts randomly. If the student can answer correctly in three seconds, s

Kids conceptualize fractions with some Halloween math fun! They practice ordering, comparing, and/or adding subtracting. Cards are organized so you can differentiate or scale. They include 100 fractions, 9 decimals, > , < , =, and one blank card. Open the preview to take a closer look.For All Fraction GamesSelect the appropriate range of fraction cards for your students.Level 1 - zero, one, halves, fourths, eighths, and sixteenthsLevel 2 - add twelfths and twenty-fourthsLevel 3 - add thi