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on October 24, 2024 · Leave a Comment

Top 10 Classroom Activities for Halloween

Spooky season is my favorite and I’ve got several fun hands-on classroom activities for Halloween that I’m putting together as one list for you here. This list includes everything from Halloween STEM challenges to printable Halloween-themed task cards and my favorite Halloween books. I’m even including a free printable classroom activity for Halloween so let’s dive in.

#1 Spooky Narrative Writing

This creative writing unit for Halloween is my favorite writing to do with students each year because they love it and it brings out so much of their creativity! This unit has all the tools you need to support your students as they write including a mini-lesson about plot, mentor posters, spooky adjectives, writing templates, and more. You can read my previous blog post about this Halloween writing activity.

#2 Bonaparte Falls Apart

Your students will be thrilled as they work together to design and build a skeleton tower with this STEM challenge. This unit also includes multiple reading comprehension activities for the book, “Bonaparte Falls Apart” as well as a fun skeleton craft. Visit my previous blog post about Halloween STEM Activities to read more about this fun Halloween STEM challenge.

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Bonaparte Falls Apart activities
How to Build a Haunted House STEM

#3 How to Build a Haunted House

This Halloween STEM activity challenges students to work together to build a haunted house using 3D shapes. This unit includes multiple reading comprehension activities and a craft to go along with the book, “How to Build a Haunted House” by Frank Tupta. Everything you need for cross-curricular classroom activities for Halloween!

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#4 Halloween Reading Activities

Looking for some great read-alouds for Halloween? This Halloween Bundle includes 5 stories with reading comprehension activities focused on character analysis. Each of these units includes a writing activity, craft, discussion questions, printable anchor charts, and multiple comprehension activities. You can read more about each of these individual stories in my previous blog post, “Halloween Read-Alouds Your Students Will Love.” I love using these 5 Halloween read-alouds to inspire the students’ spooky narrative writing (#1 on this list).

Nonfiction Owl Unit Study

#5 Owl Research Unit

Numbers 5-7 on this list could be lumped together as Halloween-themed animal research, but they have such great extension activities that I wanted to share each of them with you separately. This nonfiction Owl Unit includes printable reading passages about 4 different owls, several report templates, diagrams to label, an owl craft, and more!

#6 Bats Research Unit

Engage your class in an exciting research unit all about bats including materials for writing informational reports, 5 nonfiction reading comprehension passages, and a fun echolocation experiment. Your students will love learning about bats through experiences in reading with comprehension, vocabulary, math, science, art, and more.

Bats Unit
Spiders Unit

#7 Spiders Research Unit

Crawl into the fascinating world of spiders with this comprehensive research unit designed for grades 2-3! This resource includes everything you need to create a fun and educational spider-themed research unit. Perfect for teachers looking to integrate literacy, math, science, and art this unit offers a wide range of engaging materials all about arachnids.

#8 Digital Halloween Centers

These digital slides are a great way to practice or review math and literacy concepts! In my previous blog post about using “Digital Tools in the Classroom,” I shared ways that I’ve used these digital slides in class. Click on the image to take a closer look at what skills are included in these Halloween-themed sets.

#9 Printable Halloween Task Cards

I also have these Halloween-themed math and literacy activities as printable task cards. You can print them in color or b&w. They include printable recording sheets for students to write their answers and printable answer keys. Read more about How to Use Task Cards in the Classroom here.

#10 Halloween Freebie!

Room on the Broom is a fun Halloween story with silly rhymes your students are sure to love! This freebie is a sample of what each of my reading comprehension units includes – a craft, writing activity, discussion questions, printable posters, and more. This set focuses on character analysis.

You can purchase Room on the Broom on Amazon. (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

In addition to these classroom activities for Halloween, I have reading passages for the month of October. They are available in two formats Digital Paired Passages and Printable Paired Passages. Each of these sets includes 9 reading passages that come with comprehension questions.

I hope you will try some of these frightfully fun classroom activities for Halloween!

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