Halloween is a fun time for kids, and if I’m being honest adults too. While I don’t love the scary images and some of the commercial elements of Halloween, I do love the colors, candy, and cute parts of the holiday…like pumpkins, cute ghosts, innocent costumes, etc.
Are you a teacher looking for some exciting and engaging Halloween activities for your classroom? This collection of classroom activities for Halloween offers you the ideas you have been searching for.
Halloween Games and Activities for the Classroom
Halloween Escape Room Template
One of my favorite Halloween activities for teachers is this editable escape room template. You can create your own escape room by adding your own content from any subject area!
Halloween Party Ideas from One Sharp Bunch
This collection of Halloween party ideas is great for classroom parties. The article is full of Halloween classroom activities that I have never seen before, like Q-Tip Skeletons, Pumpkin Bowling, and the cutest spider cookies ever! So creative!
Halloween Activities that Teach from Fun in 5th Grade
You can’t get much better as a teacher than offering your students fun activities disguised as learning! That is what this collection of Halloween classroom activities gives you. The author has a section of activities for math, writing, reading/social studies, science, and art. She also includes some free Halloween activities!
Free Halloween Activity Booklet from Susan Jones Teaching
If you haven’t had a chance to check out this freebie, then I recommend you do so! It is super cute and includes several fun Halloween activities to keep your students engaged during this exciting season, like a history of Halloween and writing prompts, as well as a word search and a math practice game.
The History of Candy by The Organized Homeschooler
What a fun idea! This author created activities to accompany a picture book called How Sweet It Is (and Was): The History of Candy. If I was still in the classroom, I would definitely be snagging these ideas! I love the idea to survey others about their favorite candy and create a graph with the data.
Halloween Create Your Own Bingo
This quick Halloween game for the classroom will allow your students to color and create their own unique Bingo game board. It is an interactive alternative for students to enjoy a game of classic Bingo with a Halloween theme. There are 30 different Halloween themed images that students can color, cut and glue to their Bingo board template.
Halloween Activities for Older Students
Halloween Activities and Ideas for Upper Elementary from Jennifer Findley
This author provides upper elementary teachers with Halloween classroom activities for math, science, writing, grammar, reading, and treat ideas. Throughout the article there are SEVERAL Halloween activity freebies to grab! My favorite is the Halloween Mad Libs.
Educational Upper Elementary Halloween Activities for the Big Kids! from Teaching with a Mountain View
This article discusses the use of several classroom activities for Halloween including math games and projects, Halloween reading and writing resources, science activities and other Halloween and fall ideas for the upper elementary classroom. Freebies are sprinkled throughout the article! Check it out!
I hope this collection of fun Halloween activities for the classroom has been helpful to you in your search of ways to engage your students this Halloween season.
