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Kindergarten Halloween Activities

Fun and engaging Halloween activities for your kindergarten classroom. Work on a variety of math and literacy skills.

Kindergarten Halloween activities. Get ideas, centers, freebies and more. Get free downloads for fun, hands-on learning with jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins, STEM, sight words and more.


Need some ideas for Halloween? Here are some different kindergarten Halloween activity ideas that you can try out this week :

Monster sight word literacy center for Halloween activities. Practice sight word recognition and spelling with these fun, hands-on activities.

Monster Sight Words Activities has a variety of recording pages that you can use throughout the week.

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Make a sight word pumpkin patch! You can use this activity with any sight word, and students can even cut out their own pumpkins! So easy and so fun.

Sight word pumpkins on a vine literacy craft for kindergarten. Fall-themed centers and activities for you kindergarten classroom. Perfect for autumn activities for hands-on, fun, play-based learning. Includes a free download for a fun Halloween gift for your students.

Pumpkin STEM activity for kindergarten. Fall-themed centers and activities for you kindergarten classroom. Perfect for autumn activities for hands-on, fun, play-based learning. Includes a free download for a fun Halloween gift for your students.

I set up this fun Five Little Pumpkins STEM activity last year. Our students loved building a fence that could balance all five pumpkins on it.


Need another way to work on sight words? This Sight Word Jack-o-Lantern center is so much fun! Students create their jack-o-lantern using the pieces, then record the sight words they used. This has been a major hit every year!

You can find it here:

Reinforce sight words with this fun, hands-on activity. Jack-o-Lantern sight word building for halloween.
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Want to give a treat to your students, but you don’t want to give out candy? These super fun pointers are a fun way to encourage students to read, and don’t cost a lot to make- I just hot-glued a googly eye to a popsicle stick and taped it to the card!

You can download the card for free in my Resource Library!

Freebie for Halloween gift for students. Fall-themed centers and activities for you kindergarten classroom. Perfect for autumn activities for hands-on, fun, play-based learning. Includes a free download for a fun Halloween gift for your students.

Spooky Letters Halloween Literacy center for Kindergarten. Reinforce letter recognition and formation with this fun, hands-on center.
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Need to practice letter recognition and formation? This Spooky Letters activity is perfect! There are lots of different recording pages to choose from, so you can easily differentiate this center.

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A Geoboard Pumpkin is a fun way to practice fine motor skills. I hammered some nails into a pumpkin, and students used elastics to make designs.

Pumpkin geoboard fine motor activity for kindergarten Halloween center. Fun, hands-on.
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Free printable pumpkin headband craft. Make a cute halloween crown for your students with this FREEBIE #freebie #halloween #creativekindergarten

Want to send your students home in a cute pumpkin headband? Get this free download and make some with your class! They are adorable!


Send a fun gift home with your students that doesn’t involve candy! Print out these punny cards and tape some crayons to them to make them into mini colouring pages.


Set up an engaging and creepy spider provocation for your students to explore! Print out the poster and cards, add some spiders, books, paper and pencils – students will love drawing and labelling the arachnids!


Reinforce fine motor and counting skills with a spider web activity! Students roll a die and then use the tweezers to take that many spiders out of the web.


Cut pumpkin shapes out of orange construction paper and add loose parts. Students can have fun creating their own jack-o-lanterns.


Start teaching your students how to code with a simple Unplugged Coding activity! Students have to use directional coding to get the trick-or-treater to the candy while avoiding the bats.


You can also invite students to try coding a path using loose parts. I coded a path for the wooden peg doll to get to the pumpkin patch.


Have students practice recognizing and forming the letters of the alphabet with no prep Halloween Literacy activities.


Use these Haunted House recipe cards to build your student’s fine motor skills! They have to follow the cards to count and fill their haunted house with the matching number of spooky items.


Play a simple counting game with your students with Halloween manipulatives. Students roll a die, then place that number of objects in their cup. They keep rolling and adding to their cup until it is full. Challenge students to try and count how many items it took to fill their cup!


Need more ideas? Head over to my store and see what else I have Halloween! You could do a Class Book, Colour Around the Room, Building Block STEM Challenges, Unplugged Coding and more!

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