Easy Halloween Activities for K-1
I love Halloween in the classroom! Students get so excited about all the spooky fun that we have during the month of October. I’ve got tons of easy and super low-prep Halloween math, reading, and science activities for you to use during this frightful month! Read below to grab some of these activities to do with your littles!
Shapenstein
You’ve heard of Frankenstein, but have you heard of SHAPENSTEIN?! The cuteness of this craftivity could kill me! It’s a great review for shapes, and it’s always a good idea for students to work on cutting, gluing, and following directions. Grab this Shapenstein Craftivity HERE.
Riveting Read Alouds
Halloween read alouds are some of my favorites. I have a huge list of read alouds linked HERE for y’all, and these Halloween Read Aloud Graphic Organizers work with any Halloween story! Grab the Halloween Read Aloud Graphic Organizers HERE for only $1!
Spooky Snack Graphing
Grab the Halloween Circus Animal Cookies from Target or Walmart and get graphing! This graphing activity comes with several different activities that focus on counting cookies in ten frames, graphing cookies, and using your cookies to add. Grab the Spooky Snack Graphing Pack HERE.
Pumpkin Party Writing Craftivity
Practice writing with this fun pumpkin party craftivity. It comes with options that can help support your beginning writers, and options with lines for your advanced writers to write as they please! Grab this Pumpkin Party Craftivity HERE.
Multi-purpose Bat Anchor Chart
Grab some butcher paper and make a bat-shaped anchor chart! There are so many ways that you can use this chart. Use it to learn about bats and chart your schema, new learning, and misconceptions. Or use it to create a bats can/have/are chart! The possibilities are really endless!
Halloween Positive Behavior Notes
Sending home positive behavior notes is the easiest way to make positive connections between school and home! Print these cuties out on colored paper, write a child’s name at the top, sign your name at the bottom, and you’re good to go! Sometimes I tape a small little Starburst candy to the top corner just because I think my littles deserve a sweet treat. Grab these Positive Behavior Notes HERE or you can get the Yearly Bundle HERE.
October Classroom Management
October seems to be when students get super comfortable in the classroom, and that can also mean that the spooky behaviors start showing. I keep my class focused and engaged with these behavior incentive charts! You can print them in color, or project and trace them on chart paper so that they’re nice and big.
Grab these behavior incentive charts HERE!
Halloween Party Stations
Host the EASIEST classroom Halloween Party ever! Teachers don’t have time to prep and cut out alllllll the things, that’s why I made sure that each party station required minimal (or zero) prep. This set includes 8 stations for you to use (use them all, or use a few) with your students. Grab the Halloween Party Kit HERE.
Spooky Word Hunt Word Work
Create a Halloween tray filled with fun things (plastic spiders, pom poms, gushy eyeballs, etc.) from stores like Dollar Tree, Target, Walmart, and Michael’s. (I found the Halloween plastic eggs at Target and I hid my words in those. You don’t have to use eggs, but if you want to I found some HERE.) Then hide your words in the tray and let students dig to find them, and sort them in a word pattern sort! This pack has 8 different word skills for you to choose from, and it’s super easy to set up. Grab the Spooky Word Hunt HERE.
Halloween Zero Prep Math Games
I love having different math game options in my math centers, and littles love them as well! Just print these, and play with dice or a spinner. My list math tools can be found HERE (like foam dice and spinners) and the Halloween Math Game Pack can be found HERE.
Love these games? Grab the Yearly Bundle of Math Games HERE.
Batty Doorway Display
Grab some butcher paper and draw a cute bat, type up a speech bubble, cut it out, and hang this cutie above your doorway! Theres nothing like seeing cute firstie faces light up as they enter their room underneath a giant bat!
Boo! Editable Phonics Game
This editable Halloween phonics or sight word game is low-prep and super engaging for your kindergarten or first grade students! Simply type in phonics pattern words, heart words, sight words, cvc words, and more, print, cut, and PLAY!
Play this fun game individually, as a class, or with a partner! This game makes an excellent literacy center, fast finisher activity, and more!
How to Play:
1. Set the sand timer and make a stack of word cards
2. Take turns picking a card and reading the word
3. If you grab a BOO card, all your cards go back in the stack!
4. The person with the most cards when the timer goes off is the winner!
For a fun review, play this game as a class- students VS. teacher!
Candy Corn Math
Grab a bag of candy corn and get your math on! This fun pack is one of my faves. Practice numbers and counting, making 10, addition within 10, subtraction within 10, comparing, and 2D shapes with this activity.
Halloween Word Work for Any Word List
Students always love these fun word work pages! I put a new one into our word work bin each week so students to have one choice that is a little more festive than the other word work that we usually do. Students practice writing word family words, phonics pattern words, heart words, sight words, word wall words, or whatever words your class is currently working on!
You can grab this word work HERE.
You can read more about my word work station HERE.
Halloween Math Around the Room
Year after year, the math scope and sequence order changes and that always throws off my holiday themed activities. With this pack, it doesn’t whether or not you’re teaching about number bonds or fractions during the month of October because it’s all included in this Math Around the Room activity! Just choose your skill (22 math concepts provided), cut your cards and hang them around the room, then allow students to hunt and record them! This makes a fabulous math center or fast finisher option because students are up and moving. Grab this pack HERE.
Pumpkin Science Week
Pumpkin Science is a MUST in Kindergarten or First Grade! Your littles will get so excited about their hands-on pumpkin explorations and observations. Learn about pumpkin parts, life cycles, height/weight, circumference, graphing, estimating, and lots more! This pack comes with lesson plans for your entire week of Pumpkin Science. Grab the Pumpkin Science Week HERE.
