Holiday activities are always a good time in the preschool classroom. From math activities, literacy activities, and art activities, there's something for everyone. Whether you're home with a bored toddler or you're planning your Halloween party days in the preschool classroom, we've got you!
Here is a list of 55 Halloween activities for preschoolers that can be done almost anywhere. With little prep and a low budget, we've got something for you. So sit back, take a break from planning and enjoy all of these fun activities!
1. Halloween Cup Stacking
Preschool activities only get better around the holidays. Cup stacking is a great motor activity for even the youngest learners! Students will love working together or independently to build the highest towers they can. Use paper cups or Halloween solo cups to engage your students.
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2. Roll A Frank
Crafty activities like this are absolutely perfect for the preschool classroom. Rolla a Frank works with both number recognition and enhances early literacy skills. It's important to guide students in creating this fun craft. Don't forget the googly eyes to make it extra exciting!
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3. Room on the Broom Cut & Glue
Halloween-themed books are always super fun. Room on the Broom is a great one that can be easily intertwined with a cute craft for preschoolers! It'll be loads of fun to read the book together or listen to the read-aloud version. Then work those motor skills by cutting and gluing the broomstick.
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4. Pumpkin Patch Sensory Bin
Fill a bucket with fake grass and mini pumpkins to give off the vibe of a real pumpkin patch. This Halloween-themed sensory activity can be used to spark conversation between students or with the teacher. Push students to talk about their experiences at a pumpkin patch.
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5. Eye Ball Pick Up
Yes, there is a Halloween sensory activity for every student! This is great for preschoolers and bored toddlers. Have kiddos pick up the floating eyeballs and put them in the cauldrons. A twist on this could be using different small Halloween objects to make a potion inside the cauldron!
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6. Spider Web Painting
This spider web kids activity is one of those simple craft ideas that will surely entice any classroom for the holidays. Activities for preschoolers like this are great because they're easy enough for students of all levels and always come out looking great!
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7. Hand Print Bats
There's no doubt that every preschool classroom needs an adorable bat craft. Parents love Halloween-themed activities that also serve as a keepsake for their busy toddlers. Have the mouths already made for kids and always have a bucket of different-sized googly eyes to enhance creativity and imagination.
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8. Pumpkin Seed Counting
Looking for a math activity that's still Halloween themed?
Don't waste those pumpkin seeds this year. Save them for years and years to come for different preschool pumpkin activities. This is the perfect way to teach about pumpkin seeds and practice preschool counting skills.
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9. Haunted Doll House
If there's a doll house in the classroom, then don't miss out on turning it into a haunted house. Watch as children play completely differently with a haunted house over their day-to-day doll house.
Pre-K teachers everywhere, once you theme up one doll house, you're going to constantly change it up. It's so much fun.
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10. Marble Roll Mummies
Add Where's My Mummy? to your Halloween book list, and you won't be disappointed. Follow with a mummy craft, like this one. Simply use white paints and marble and watch as your student gets fully enticed with rolling the marble around and decorating the mummy.
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11. Exploding Pumpkins
There's no doubt that preschool students love a good, messy science activity. Don't let your kiddos down this year, and create these fun, exploding pumpkins! Use different colors and objects to add to the pumpkin. Don't be afraid to let your kids get messy and really feel all of the science happening.
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12. Hatching Spiders
I absolutely loved this idea when I came across it. My kids love it even more. Creating this simple craft for kids using plastic spiders and ice is the perfect motor spider activity. Use warm water and a dropper to melt away the ice. Give students their own "spider egg" or have them all work on a few at a time. Whatever works best for your class.
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13. Spider Web Creations
Another spider web kids activity that's great for perfecting those balance skills. Watch as students work together or individually to balance the little spiders on the pieces of tape.
- How many webs you can create throughout your classroom?
- Who can balance the most spiders?
- Can your students count all of their balancing spiders?
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14. Brain Dissections
Another fun activity with ice! Create these ice brains filled with little Halloween objects. Your students will love digging through them and discovering all kinds of objects. Use Jello as an alternative (figuring you have no vegan or allergies in your classroom).
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15. Halloween Toss
Ghost activities are very exciting, but throwing activities are even better! This game may take some patience and creativity from the preschool teacher, but it will be loved by all of your students. Whether you make ghosts, ghouls, or monsters, your students will love the entire idea of this fun activity.
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16. Halloween Eraser Tic Tac Toe
Using mini pumpkins and other Halloween-designed erasers, this tic-tac-toe game is fun for everyone! Students will love the competition and will love the little faces even more. You can't go wrong with having a tic-tac-toe station set up.
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17. Halloween Butcher Paper
Butcher paper is some of the best materials you can have in the classroom. It's always fun for children to color on big paper and work together to create an amazing poster for the classroom. Design a ghost, monster, spider, or pumpkin per child, and let them color it all in!
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18. Learning Skeleton
There's no better time to teach preschoolers about skeletons than during Halloween. Using this skeleton during circle time is sure to liven up all of your students. Build on it with a simple craft creating their very own skeletons and labeling the different parts together.
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19. Witches Potion
Have you ever made one of these sudsy tubs with your kiddos? They're honestly a blast and can be used at any time. This is a great way to create a witch's potion or even a scavenger hunt. Either way, this can be easily created with a few bars of dial soap and a cheese grater. Mix it with water, and boom, you have an insanely sudsy tub.
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20. Create a Skeleton Hand
Keep your toddler busy with this hands-on creation. Your kiddos won't only love creating their very own handprint, but they'll also be super engaged when putting the Q-tips together to create a skeleton-looking hand.
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21. Paper Bag Pumpkins
Do you have food restrictions or allergies in your district? DON'T WORRY! These paper bag pumpkins are even more fun! Have students paint the bags orange and then create their very own pumpkins. Use Halloween stickers to make decorating easier and more exciting for your kiddos.
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22. Halloween Letter Trace
It can't be all fun and games in the preschool classroom. Or can it?
You might be able to trick your kiddos into thinking this educational activity is all fun and games! Using orange-colored sand and little Halloween bats, have your students practice drawing their lowercase letters. It'll be fun and engaging while also building on students' letter recognition.
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23. Halloween Hunt
We know kids love a good Easter egg hunt, but why can't they also enjoy a Halloween-themed hunt?
The truth is, they can! And the even better truth is, they might just love it that much more. Hide all kinds of Halloween-themed objects throughout your classroom or playground (if possible). Your students will love searching and collecting as much as they can!
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24. Handprint Name Puzzles
I think these are the cutest little creations. Name recognition is extremely important for an emergent reader. These are some of the very first sight words students learn. Finding activities for kids that incorporate their names is vital to their development.
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25. Interactive Halloween Letter Tracing
This super cute letter tracing activity will be fun for students of all ages. Although it may take more time for teachers to create it, in the end, it's totally worth it. Your students will love the hands-on of changing the letters, and you'll love their tracing abilities.
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26. Salty Webs
Everyone loves colorful salts! These salts can be easily created and even more easily decorated. Students will love working with different colors. The salt also provides an exciting sensory manipulative for students.
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27. Witch Broom Beading
Beading is a great activity for working the small muscles of your preschooler's hands. Using different size beads will cause students to work on different grasps, which in turn will help to strengthen different muscles throughout their hands. Make it Halloween-themed by using a pipe cleaner and some paper!
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28. Roll a Monster
Rolling a monster is a super cute activity for your students. This idea is so simple. Teachers can make it themselves without using any materials (except maybe some googly eyes). Students will love putting their own spin on this googly-eyed monster.
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29. Halloween Oobleck
Calling all Oobleck lovers. This is seriously the most amazing stuff. For kids and (admit it) even adults! Creating Halloween oobleck is sure to liven up any sensory table. Allow students to fill the pumpkins and play with all different kinds of materials.
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30. Color Match Spiders
Looking for different ways to use a color chart in your Halloween activities? Look no further! These fun Halloween spiders can be created super easily. It will help students to recognize various colors and motor skills or stick the Q-tips into the holes.
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31. Sensory Monsters
Sensory activities are important for preschoolers! Helping with the development of connections from the hands to the brain. These monsters in a bag are a perfect way to encourage those connections with a fun and engaging creation.
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32. Build a Pumpkin
Give each student their very own dough tray with other materials and see if they can create their very own pumpkin. It's important to provide students with a visual but let them create in any way they want!
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33. Halloween Sink or Float
Preschool STEM activities are always the best. Talk to students about what they think will sink and what they think will float. Guide them in making predictions as a class. Then, of course, test the theories. Talk about the experiment after and see if students can come to any conclusions.
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34. Potato Masher Halloween
Potatoe mashers make some of the best paintings. They're creative, beautiful, and, obviously, fun! Your students will love mashing the paint on big or small pieces of paper. Use Halloween colors to decorate the classroom.
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35. Puffy Paint Pumpkins
Puffy paint is exciting for everyone. It's fun to play with and, even more, fun to watch! Your students will love creating these awesome puffy paint pumpkins.
Pro tip: Cut out the face shapes before and allow students to choose whichever ones they like most.
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36. Halloween Letter Matching
Letter mats are a great way to intertwine some learning into all-party activities. Students, teachers, and parents will love this matching game printable. Have students match the letters onto the letter mats.
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37. Halloween Search
This is a super cute idea! Students will be so surprised when they can find all of the drawings beneath the black water.
The best part?
This is super simple to create! Simply draw Halloween critters on a piece of orange construction paper, fill the baking dish with water and black food coloring and watch the magic happen.
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38. Skeleton X-Rays
Have any of your kiddos ever had an X-ray taken? This is a simple yet engaging activity that will have students super excited. Begin this lesson with Daniel Tiger's trip to get an X-ray! Explain to your kiddos that you'll be creating your own X-ray after the video.
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39. Baking Vampire Teeth
Vampire's teeth are very exciting. There's always one or two vampires in the classroom. Therefore, creating this fun baking activity will be a great time for everyone. This one can be a bit tricky for those little hands, but the creativity will surely shine, as will the motor skills behind it.
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40. Halloween Sensory Bottle
These super cute sensory bottles will be great little treasures for your students to take home with them. They'll love keeping them in the house and constantly watching them. There's no doubt that parents might feel a little relaxation from them as well.
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41. Halloween Playdough Mat
Printable playdough mats will let children's creativity fly. They will love to decorate, play, and create with their playdough. Create your own playdough and laminate these printables in order to get the full experience. And get more use out of the pages next year!
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42. Spider Slime
This cool slime is so easy to make! Your students will absolutely love playing with it. It doesn't only have to revolve around spiders. If you have different little plastic Halloween objects, then mix those in there as well!
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43. Witches Brew
This witches brew activity is always fun to have around the classroom during Halloween. It helps to provoke the imagination and help kids to really feel like they're creating a witches potion! Book suggestions like How to Outwit Witches are great books to read to preschoolers and invoke some creativity.
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44. Preschool Color By Witch
A classic spin on color by number, your students will love searching and sticking! Use colorful circle stickers to cover the witch's faces and create different colored witches. This is a great activity for building color recognition skills.
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45. Halloween Process Art
Process art is great for preschoolers. The idea is to focus the energy on the art rather than the finished project. This allows students to be in full control of their creativity without any pressure on what they're supposed to be making.
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46. Spooky Lanterns
I love these cute little lanterns! Students will love taking them home and lighting them next to their Jack O' lantern pumpkins. It'll be so much fun to create in the classroom and is pretty simple.
Pro tip: Ask a local restaurant to donate plastic containers to your classroom!
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47. Mummy Making
We've talked about mummies before, but nothing quite like these little guys. Working your student's hand muscles can be tough. But wrapping these little card stock mummies in the string will be the perfect way to get those motor skills to work.
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48. Hanging Bat Craft
These little bats can hang anywhere. They're simple to make but super fun to play with! Hang them around the classroom or let students take them home. It might be fun to have students hang them on trees in the front yard if they have them.
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49. Creature Catcher STEM Activities
It's so fun to create different STEM activities. One is the creature catcher. Simply have students weave the string in and out (for little hands, it's better to use ribbon). Have students weave the ribbon to create a little net that can hold the little plastic spiders.
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50. Disappearing Ghost
An amazing circle time activity that will have students enthusiastic about all things Halloween! This is a great science experiment. See if your preschooler's little minds can come up with a creative place where the ghost went. A perfect storytelling opportunity.
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51. Halloween Skittles Rainbow
Get some Halloween-colored skittles and watch as they create the rainbow. This experiment is so much fun, and my kiddos are always excited when they see me take out the skittles. Rainbows make people happier, and experiments like this are so much fun to watch and experience.
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52. The Runaway Pumpkin
A good read-aloud always makes the holidays better. There's no better way to practice literacy skills than constantly reading with your students. The Runaway Pumpkin is an adorable story that focuses all around Halloween.
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53. We're Going on a Monster Hunt
Monster Hunts! Monster hunts are so much fun; this video will bring out all the excitement in your little ones. Whether you do this at circle time or as a brain break throughout the day, it's the perfect Halloween activity.
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54. Pumpkin Craft
This is a simple, traditional pumpkin craft. Sometimes traditional is the best way to go. This craft only uses colored paper and glue. Making it simple for teachers on any budget.
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55. Halloween Hand Monsters
Alright, have you planned a puppet show this year for Halloween? If yes, then these cute little hand monsters are the perfect addition to your classroom. They're fun for students of all ages and super simple to create. Using plastic vampire teeth and little monster eyes, your students will quickly create their monsters.
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