Halloween Alphabet Activities

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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Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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