Halloween Games and Printables for the Classroom

Halloween used to be one of the biggest holidays when it came to classroom parties at my daughter’s school (they still do a lot in the lower grades, and the young ones go trick or treating in the upper school classrooms). Halloween can be a lot of fun even if it’s not super spooky, and there are tons of easy Halloween games and printable activities you can do in the classroom or with a small group at home.

I love this giant Halloween word search for the classroom from Busy Toddler. Do a single one for a couple of kids (or to leave hanging in the classroom and each kid can find a couple of words) or make a couple and make a game where teams of kids can try to find the words.

There are tons of Halloween bingo cards out there that you can print for classroom use. These from Happiness is Homemade are super cute and easy for kids of any age to use. Don’t Eat Pete is kind of the opposite of bingo, where you start with all your spaces covered. One person is it, and they leave the room while the others decide which icon on the game board is Pete. When the “it” person returns they start uncovering the squares until they get to Pete, and everyone yells “Don’t eat Pete!” and a new it is named. You can find a printable for this game along with other Halloween printables at Fun Squared.

Memory matching games are also fun for small parties, and this one from Marley Doodle Digital is super cute. This could be a station at a Halloween party with other games and activities going on as well.

If you’re looking for some more active games to add to the mix, check out this list of minute to win it style games with a Halloween twist from So Festive. Making people into mummies with toilet paper is a classic we did for a few years, but I also love this one that involves blowing plastic spiders through an obstacle course (or just across a finish line, depending on the age of the kids) using a straw. So fun and easy to set up!

Halloween Shadow Match Game for Preschoolers

Halloween Concentration Game

Beginning Sound Pumpkin Matching Game

Free Halloween Themed Printables for Kids

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Have Fun with Giant Coloring Pages

Most kids go through a phase where they want to learn more about animals, and it’s fun for them to learn about the diversity of the natural world and what humans can do to protect other creatures we share the planet with. Camilla de la Bedoyere has written a couple of books, illustrated by Philip Giordano, to help kids learn more about birds and bees.

Wild Your World: Birds looks at many different kinds of birds that live around the world and covers things like parts of a bird, different habitats that birds live in, migration, camouflage, what and how birds eat and more.

With lovely illustrations showing a diverse array of birds found around the world, the book talks about different birds that live in the woodlands, rainforest, fields and farms, coastland, grasslands and deserts, urban areas and the polar regions.

It talks about some of the biggest, smallest and fastest birds, and fun facts about different birds. For example you’ll learn about birds that next in cacti, the birds with weird shaped eggs so they won’t roll off cliffs, and meet the birds that migrate from New Zealand to Alaska.

Wild Your World: Bees follows a similar format, talking about different kinds of bees (and how the vast majority of bee species are solitary bees), parts of a bee and why bees look the way they do, how bees collect nectar and pollen, how bees sense the world around them, how their wings work and what life in a colony is like.

It covers the bee life cycle, how bees make honey, what causes a swarm and more. It covers digger bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees (who lay their eggs in the nests of teddy bear bees so they don’t have to take care of their young), mining bees, plasterer bees, leaf-cutter, wool carder and mason bees (so named because they collect materials to make their nests), bumblebees and swaet bees.

Readers will also learn about keeping bees. Both books talk about the dangers to birds and bees and what humans can do to help them.

These books are aimed at readers ages 4-9 who will enjoy looking at the pictures and learning about these animals and how people can help protect them.

About the books: Both books are 46 pages and hardcover. Published 2025 by Design Eye (see: birds|bees). Both books retail for $16.99.

Let’s Get Buzzing About World Bee Day

Bee Craft – Learning about Pollination

Learning about Bees for Kids

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