Halloween Lesson Plans

September 11, 2013 by Shellie Wilson Leave a Comment

Halloween lesson plans are always more fun when they feel festive without turning the whole classroom into complete chaos. October has a special kind of energy, doesn’t it? Pumpkins, costumes, bats, spiders, ghosts, candy chatter, and children who are suddenly very interested in telling you every tiny detail of what they might dress up as this year.

These Halloween lesson plans are perfect for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents looking for seasonal classroom activities that still support real learning. Halloween themes can be worked into reading, writing, math, science, art, fine motor skills, sensory play, and even simple STEM challenges, making it easy to keep children engaged while still staying on track with your learning goals.

For younger children, Halloween activities might include pumpkin counting, spooky alphabet games, monster patterning, bat crafts, Halloween story prompts, or simple science experiments with pumpkins and candy. Older students can enjoy creative writing prompts, Halloween history discussions, problem-solving activities, themed math challenges, and hands-on group projects that bring a little spooky fun into the school day.

This collection of Halloween lesson plans is full of easy, classroom-friendly ideas for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary-aged children. Whether you need a quick October activity, a full Halloween classroom theme, a homeschool unit, or a few low-prep ideas to get you through the week before Halloween, these lesson plans are a fun way to make seasonal learning feel exciting, creative, and just spooky enough.

Halloween Puzzles and other printables.

Word Spiders

Halloween Literacy Set

Halloween Handwriting Printables

Halloween Bingo

Check out more fall fun with these roundups:

Bat Crafts and Learning Activities

Pumpkin Learning Activities

Fall Learning Activities

Apple Learning Activities

Check out these Halloween Activity Books we found on Amazon to keep the kids busy this Halloween season. The perfect grab and go books for outings, car trips and lazy afternoons.

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Learning Activities with Snap Cubes

A classic manipulative in the preschool and early elementary classroom is the snap cube, also known as math cubes, unifix cubes or unit cubes. These little one inch cubes often come in a set of 100 in 10 different colors, and they snap together so they’re easy to use for all sorts of math learning, measuring and more.

No Time for Flashcards has a cute robot printable to use with cubes to measure the height of each robot. That one is free but they also have other printable cube mats that are a paid resource.

Catherine & Co uses math cubes to teach kids about measuring volume. They make a letter from cubes and then measure the volume (there’s a printable worksheet in the post).

Pattern recognition is another fun and easy activity you can do with the cubes. You can use printables like these from Planning Playtime, or just make a pattern from cubes and have kids repeat it or figure out what comes next. There’s another good set of pattern printables at English Created Resources.

Because there are 10 sets of 10 cubes in a pack, these are great for teaching one to one correspondence, counting, sorting and basic addition and subtraction. English Created Resources has great printable number mats you can use to form the number from cubes and count out the number of cubes that corresponds to that number.

ParenTutor has a great collection of snap cube activity ideas, most of which are just pictures, but it’s work taking a look through the post for ideas for using them at home or in the classroom.

To give just a few of their examples, you can match linked blocks to the corresponding number of pieces, use blocks to find different ways to add up to 10, compare numbers and determine which one is more or less, skip counting and weighing different numbers of blocks.

You can also use unit cubes to learn letters, like with these super cute alphabet mats from Fun Learning for Kids. Kids can trace the letter, make it out of cubes and practice writing a word that starts with that letter.

Of course you can also use them to build things, since they are blocks, and there are tons of pattern mats on Teachers Pay Teachers. I also love these dinosaur themed mats from Lets Go to Learn on Etsy.

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