These Halloween activities are very popular for this holiday. They provide fun and engaging learning experiences to help you celebrate Halloween with your class. Check out all of the Halloween activities for elementary students below!
14 Halloween Activities for Elementary Students
Below are our favorite Halloween activities for elementary students.
1. Halloween Activity Packet
This Halloween Activity Packet is filled with fun and engaging activities students love like a directed drawing writing activity, word search, and crossword puzzle! These activities can be used as center activities, homework, fast finisher tasks, filler activities, or indoor recess activities. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
2. Halloween Color by Code Activity
This Halloween Color by Code Activity is a fun and engaging task that invites students to practice identifying the parts of speech of thematic words like carve, spooky, and ghost. It’s a quick print and go activity you can have printed on your desk whenever you have 15-20 minutes to fill. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
3. Halloween Would You Rather Activities
These Halloween Would You Rather Activities include prompts where students are given two options to choose from. They are a great way to increase engagement in your classroom whether it’s during your morning meeting or literacy centers. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
4. What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween
This What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween Project is a fun and engaging Halloween project for elementary students. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
5. Halloween Book Companions
This Halloween Book Companion Bundle includes 6 of our Starts With a Story resources: Click, Clack, Boo!, The Hallo-Wiener, Turkey Trick or Treat, The Good, The Bad, and The Spooky, Trick or Treat Crankenstein, and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. Each of them includes printable and digital resources, so they can be used in school or at home. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
6. Haunted House for Sale Project
This Haunted House for Sale Writing and Craft Project is a fun and engaging way to celebrate Halloween in your classroom. It engages elementary students with creative writing and helps teach descriptive writing and adjectives. It includes a teacher guide, Halloween-themed prompts, brainstorming activities, sensory planners, graphic organizers, drafting and publishing templates, and class book covers. Additionally, it offers art project directions, bulletin board resources, and digital options. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
7. Pumpkin Book Report Project
This pumpkin book report project is perfect for October. It includes printable activities as well as a pumpkin decoration component (with a printable pumpkin page alternative). The completed projects look fantastic displayed on a bulletin board alongside the finished book reports. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
8. Halloween Math Activity
Use this Halloween-themed math activity as a math center or early finisher task to help students practice sorting, graphing, classifying, categorizing, and interpreting data. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
9. Halloween Reading Comprehension Activities
These Halloween Graphic Organizer Activities are a great way to provide engaging, meaningful practice to greatly improve your students’ reading and writing skills, but are so quick and easy for you to prepare. Each of the included graphic organizers can be used over and over and with ANY book you choose. Students will love the thematic pages and you’ll love the ease in which they can meet individual student needs. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
10. Halloween Acrostic Poem Activities
These Halloween Acrostic Poem Activities include five unique acrostic poem templates, each offering a different blend of structure, creativity, and seasonal-themed fun. Each printable worksheet was designed to spark creativity, reinforce writing skills, improve vocabulary, and give students meaningful ways to engage with seasonal themes – all in a super quick and easy format teachers can use with no prep. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
11. Halloween Bingo Activities
Use these Halloween Bingo Activities as coloring pages for a calming activity this October and then play the game. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
12. Halloween Bookmarks
The printable Halloween Bookmarks pair perfectly with other Halloween activities. Students will enjoy these Halloween coloring activities that spark creativity while giving them a purposeful finished product to use during independent reading. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
13. Halloween Directed Drawing Activities
The Halloween Directed Drawing Activities are a fun and engaging way for elementary students to practice a variety of important skills: writing, vocabulary, focus, fine motor, social-emotional, and more. Both teachers and students love them! Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
14. Halloween Word Search
This Halloween Word Search Activity is a fun way for students to celebrate Halloween while reinforcing spelling, vocabulary, reading, visual scanning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!
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