Halloween Alphabet Activities

October 3, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

I have often said that if you can add a holiday twist to a learning activity, it makes it just that much more fun to learn. And when it comes to Halloween learning activities, there are so many easy options for making things a little more fun while learning the same material.

Take letter recognition, for example. Here are just a few options for Halloween alphabet activities your little ones are sure to love.

Fantastic Fun and Learning has a cute pumpkin alphabet printable to be used for matching letters written on pumpkin seeds, which adds a fun sensory aspect (but also a little more prep). You could also use letter beads or even just pieces of paper with letters written on them.

Two Pink Peonies has a similar letter matching project using a pumpkin and dot stickers with the letters written on them. Again it’s a little bit of prep but kids do love stickers!

The spider find and cover activity from Fun Learning for Kids is a little like bingo. It includes cards with pictures of different objects and kids cover up the letter that begins the word. Or you could just write a letter on the board and have them find it. Use little erasers or pom poms to cover the letters.

If you want to get kids up and moving while they learn, try this witch themed alphabet hide and seek game from The Educator’s Spin on It. It’s meant to go with the book Room on the Broom but you can play it by itself, too. Just grab a cauldron and some letters (could be letter stickers, magnets, alphabet blocks, etc.) and hide them so kids can find them.

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Printable Houses to Use as Christmas Decorations

I guess this isn’t exclusively a kid’s craft or learning activity (though cutting and folding are great for developing fine motor skills!) but I think kids would love having some of these printable holiday houses around the house or classroom to play with in the holiday season. Because they’re made of paper, they’re inexpensive to make, and while there is assembly involved the results are well worth the work.

If you have a cutting machine you can use the cut files from Delia Creates to make making your own paper village that much easier. She actually cut out all her buildings in different colors of card stock and used them to decorate a wreath, but you could also put them on the mantle or on a low table for kids to play with. Make a whole small world scene complete with fake snow, little characters and other elements, and kids are sure to start making their own stories to go with the setup.

This set of houses is printed and cut out using a craft knife. It’s meant to be an advent calendar, with each of the buildings numbered and you can stick a treat inside. But you could also just play with the buildings! You can get a free download of four buildings from Little House on the Corner, or head to the post to see where you can buy the whole set.

The Mavelo website isn’t in English, but their printable gingerbread house template is super cute to use as a gift box or to play with. If you need the instructions the website is in Polish but Google Translate seems to do a pretty good job.

Bora Illustrates has an adorable little house to print, cut and assemble featuring a cat, bird and gingerbread person. You could probably print it in black and white and have your kiddo color it, too.

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