As the October air gets chillier and pumpkins start to glow, it’s time to add some spooky fun to your home or classroom!
These witch-approved worksheets from Education.com are just the trick (or treat!) to get your students engaged in math, reading, and writing.
Here are our top picks for Halloween activities for PreK through 8th grade:
Math Magic
1. Spider Web Math
This math puzzle is shaped like a web for a creepy crawly spider! Students will identify number sequences and use the answers to help guide their friend through its web. It’s a great way to practice math skills while getting in the spirit!
2. Deadly Decimals
Combine a spooky theme with essential decimal practice! Students will work through three-digit decimal addition problems while filling out the blank boxes with letters to spell a secret word. A little Halloween fun can make decimals much less frightening.
3. A Quest for Real Numbers
Using this hidden picture maze, students will color in different types of real numbers to reveal a Halloween picture. It’s a creative way to reinforce concepts like irrational numbers, rational numbers, integers, whole numbers, and natural numbers.
4. Looming Logic Problems
Four friends go treat-or-treating dressed as a witch, dragon, ghost, and superhero. Each friend has a different favorite Halloween treat. Can your learners use their critical thinking skills to figure out each friend’s favorite treat?
Eerie English Language Arts
5. Frightfully Fun Riddles
Keep students thinking with these Halloween-themed hink pink riddles, which ask them to come up with pairs of rhyming words to solve each clue. Add this activity to the end of your lessons as a quick, educational brain break.
6. Halloween Sentence Starters
This is one the most popular worksheets on Education.com! Kindergarteners will read each spooky sentence starter, choosing between answers like “cat” and “bat.” Early writers will practice logic and sentence structure while embracing Halloween themes. Plus, this activity is an Interactive Worksheet and can be completed digitally—no printer required!
7. Kooky Creative Writing Prompts
Inspire students to unleash their storytelling skills with these writing prompts! They’ll use their imaginations to write tales about mysterious potions, frightening werewolves, and an otherworldly haunted house.
8. Leveled Books for the Youngest Readers
Include preschoolers in the Halloween fun with this digital book! Students can practice early literacy skills while navigating through a fun game environment, matching familiar words to pictures along the way.
Creepy Crafts and Hands-on Fun
9. Cut-and-Fold Bat Flyers
Transform your home or classroom into a haunted mansion with these adorable printable bats. Get your little ghouls and goblins involved in the decorating—they’ll love sticking the bats all over the walls!
10. Monster Mask Costume
Put together some last-minute costumes with your students! They can do the monster mash, cutting and pasting eyes, mouths, hair styles, and mustaches to their masks. These silly masks are a fun way to include everyone in the costume-making fun.
Whether they’re practicing math, building literacy skills, or crafting creepy creatures, your students will love these Halloween-themed worksheets this season! Print them out, and get started.
Looking for more Halloween-themed resources for grades PreK-8th? Click through 680+ Halloween worksheets, hands-on activities, and workbooks in the Education.com Learning Library.
From all of us at Education.com, we hope you and your learners have a very happy Halloween!
