Costumes, makeup, decorations and stories galore! Halloween is such a creative time of year.
On this cosplay holiday, children dress up as their favorite character and imagine themselves in another time and place. Grown-ups may do the same thing without being judged as crazy.
Those who do don an imaginative outfit delight youngsters. They’re hailed as fun loving; as someone who really gets into the spirit of the season.
As with other writers, my imagination is always in motion. Halloween gets my charged creative juices flowing even more.
I’ve created resources for the classroom to help get teachers and students in the mood for the spookiest of seasons.
I’ve made a list of my Halloween Resources. They’re available on TPT.
Math
Halloween Tricks & Treats
Price: $1.06
This product was created to complement my children’s book Trick or Treat A Halloween Poem and the other educational resources that go along with the book.
What’s Included:
Roll & Cover
Roll, Add, & Cover
Syllable Sort
Patterns
Halloween Writing
Haunted House & Ghost Counting Freebie
Price: Free
This free activity will get your kiddos counting from 1-20 using one-to-one correspondence. Perfect for small group lessons, a math center, or as play dough mats in your sensory center.
The freebie includes haunted houses numbered 1-20 and expressive ghosts for counting.
Students can also sort the ghosts by their emotional expressions, order the haunted houses in numerical order from 1-10 or 1-20.
Put those fine motor skills use: swap out the paper ghosts for ghost tracers/cookie cutters and invite children to make their own ghosts for the haunted houses.
Haunted House & Ghost Counting #2
Price: $1.06
This activity will get your kiddos counting from 1-20 using one-to-one correspondence as well as fostering number recognition. Perfect for small group lessons or a math center for children to work on together independently.
The freebie includes haunted houses with expressive ghosts for counting and numbered ghosts from 1-20.
Students can also place the ghosts in numerical order from 1-10 or 1-20.
Haunted House & Ghost Counting #3
Price: $1.06
This activity will get your kiddos adding from 1-20 using one-to-one correspondence as well as fostering number recognition through writing. Perfect for small group lessons or a math center for children to work on together independently.
The resource includes haunted houses with expressive ghosts for counting and understanding groups of objects from 1-20.
Halloween Calendar Numbers Freebie
Price: Free
Halloween Calendar Numbers has 31 numbers in an A-B pattern and five specialized days to mark a special occasion in your classroom.
What you get:
31 Jack ‘O Lanterns and Witch Hats
5 Special Days: Birthday, National Frankenstein Day, National Black Cat Day, Halloween, and Mad Hatter Day.
Great for wall calendars and pocket calendars. The numbers can also be used in your math center or as part of a small group lesson. Students can count the numbers or arrange them in numerical order.
Literacy
Halloween Creative Writing
Price: $3.50
Looking for a quick and easy creative writing activity for your kiddos? From creating characters to planning a story’s plot, this fun resource will introduce students to the writing process.
The resources are tiered for different skill levels.
What you get:
Two levels for creating a Halloween character
Two levels for creating a Halloween setting
Planning Your Plot (Beginning-Middle-End & Problem and Solution)
Theme Planning
Writer’s Checklist
Story Revising Checklist
19 Halloween Writing Prompts
Extra lined paper
Halloween Emergent Reader
Price: $2.00
Emergent Halloween Readers is a great way to introduce students to the beginning concepts of reading. Perfect for guided reading groups, Read to Self and more.
There are two different stories in color and b/w that use predictable text. The targeted sight words are: this, is, a, an, I, like, the. The booklet also introduces kiddos to many popular Halloween characters like the monster, the witch and the wizard.
Easy to prep. Just copy, cut, staple and go!
Boo Who? Halloween Riddles
Price: $1.10
Challenge your kiddos with these Halloween Character Riddles. Great for attention grabbers, large/small group, and turn and talk.
Enhances spooky character vocabulary and great for developing conversation norms (look and listen to the speaker, turn taking), inferences and critical thinking.
What you get:
12 Halloween Character Riddles
Templates for students to write their own riddle and draw a picture to accompany it.
Witch & Wizard Magic Cottage Dramatic Play
Price: $5.00
Bring some magic to your Dramatic Play area with a Magic Cottage!
The Witch & Wizard Magic Cottage resource contains printable signs, order forms, and labels perfect for supporting cross-curricular learning standards.
The only thing missing are little witches and wizards to stir up the fun and imagination!
I may have gotten a little carried away with this one. It was so much fun to create!
What you get:
Witch & Wizard Magic Cottage Sign
Open/Closed Signs
Pay Here/Line Starts Here Signs
Magic Cottage Banner
Potion Prices
Large and Small Menus
Order Forms in Color and Black and White
Role Play Name Tags and Witch/Wizard Hats
Vocabulary Cards
Magic Cottage Labels
Magic Cottage Money
22 Different Potions
Book of Spells Cover
Magic Chant
Make Your Own Chant/Magic Spell Templates
You can purchase supplies for the spells at a dollar store and Amazon.
I hope my Haloween activities bring a little magic into your classroom and get those creative juices flowing.
Let your imaginations soar! Happy Halloween!!
