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Halloween Lesson Plans

Ultimate Halloween Series Looks at the biggest questions kids have about Halloween. This wonderful series of lessons and reading comprehension worksheets helps students understand the ins and outs. View & Print

Halloween Theme Workbook This Halloween-themed book contains a variety of worksheets for writing, math, reading comprehension, mazes, word searches, and language arts. View Printables Now

1. Ghouls and Goblins- This lesson is based on a Halloween game or activity.
2. Halloween Candy Sort- A post-Halloween math activity that uses sorting, classification, and a Venn Diagram.
3. Halloween: It's Halloween! Book- Students will learn about Halloween.
4. Halloween Maze- Can you help the witch find her broomstick?
5. Hallowe'en and Pumpkins Songs & Poems- Witches, Halloween, skeletons, cats, scarecrows.
6. Halloween Holiday- Children learn to acquire music elements: mood, tone, melody, rhythm, harmony, long before they can give these elements a definition name or characteristics.
7. "Halloween Writing Prompt"- "This is a great writing prompt one of my fellow teachers has given me to do with my class."
8. Halloween Point Plot- A nice graphing activity. PDF File.
9. Halloween Stations- To practice the manipulative skills of overhand throwing, underhand throwing, backhand throwing, and striking, as well as the fundamental motor skill of pushing.
10. Halloween Story with Portrayal Movement- To imitate action words in the story. To engage in cumulative movement patterns.
11. Halloween with Arthur- After reading the book Arthur's Halloween by Marc Brown, students will participate in a song accompanied with movement. Students will also practice writing the letter "S."
12. Harriet's Halloween Sort - This is a small group instructional activity in which students sort, classify and tell about what characteristics they sort individually wrapped candy.
13. Haunted House- To have children partake in a fun and active halloween activity.
14. Haunting Music- In this lesson about music inspired by the spooky and bizarre, students will learn about orchestra “program music” by exploring the works of Hector Berlioz and Camille Saint-Saëns.
15. Have a Halloween Party- Students will celebrate Halloween in a safe environment. Students will practice following instructions. Students will practice cooperation and other social skills.
16. Jack O' Lantern Carving 101- Plenty of printable Jack O' Lantern patterns.
17. Jack O' Lantern, Jack O' Lantern - Halloween is an exciting time for young children. Capitalize on their excitement while reinforcing color identification, holiday symbols, and language arts skills with this lesson built on the much-loved book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.!
18. Little Ghost- To work on chasing, fleeing, and dodging during a Halloween based activity.
19. M&M Math- This is a fun math activity using M&M cookies that are prepared ahead by the teacher or that the students plan for and make the day before. Students munch their way through the cookie keeping a tally of how many M&M's are found in each color.
20. Monster Art- Monster Art is lesson that is based on the book titled Where The Wild Things Are , by Maurice Sendak.
21. Monster Mash- To practice chasing, fleeing and dodging skills.
22. Monsters, Ghosts and other things that go boo- A great series of fun activities.
23. Pump Up the Curriculum With Pumpkins!- So why not plan a theme around pumpkins?
24. Pumpkin Creative Writing Project- Build on students' creative writing skills.
25. Pumpkin Numbers Game- A timely math activity.
26. Pumpkin Observations- In this elementary science activity, students will have an opportunity to note the attributes, likenesses, and differences among pumpkins they have brought back to the classroom from a trip to a pumpkin farm.
27. Pumpkin Seed Count- "Do you know how many seeds are inside the pumpkin? Follow these steps to find out."
28. Q-Tip Skeleton- This lesson will help children learn about the major bones in the body. Students will also learn how bones are put together to form a skeleton. This lesson can be a fun activity to do at Halloween time.
29. Scary Stories- Choose stories from the books that you want to read in class. You may not get all of the stories read, or students may want to pick one of their favorite stories themselves, but have a game plan.
30. Shape Witch- In this Halloween geometry lesson, from California State University, Chico, students make witches using geometric shapes. They practice cutting and pasting skills, and they learn to name triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles.
31. Sorting Pumpkin Seeds- "TLW sort colored pumpkin seeds into sets and graph the results."
32. Spider Activities- A number of great ideas!
33. Storyboard of "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever"- "Given the beginning and ending sentences, the students will demonstrate their understanding by piecing together the events in the middle in the order that they occurred on their storyboard."
34. Tales of the Supernatural- To explore the origins and development of a literary genre; to investigate how shared imaginative concerns link the members of a literary period; to examine the evolution of a literary tradition; to compare works of literature from different eras.
35. The History of Halloween- Students will discover how the contemporary traditions of Halloween have evolved over the centuries, while experiencing some of the fun first hand!
36. The House That Drac Built Haunted Houses- Build a haunted house out of a paper bag, and shapes cut out of construction paper. Then attach the child's address to help them learn their address.
37. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?
38. Thinking Activity for The Tell-Tale Heart- In this lesson, students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA), in which they listen to the story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe read aloud and answer prediction questions at designated stopping points during the reading.
39. What Masks Reveal- In this lesson, students explore the cultural significance of masks by investigating the role they play in ceremonies and on special occasions in societies from widely separated regions of the world.
40. What Would Halloween be Like Without the Ecuadorian Rainforest?- Students will understand that food comes from far away places and, as a result, has hidden costs associated with its production.
41. You've Got My Money! - This lesson is best done around Halloween time but it can be done with any story that has a repetitive section. Students will recall Orff instrument families and specific instruments so that they can put sound effects to certain words in a scary story to make it more interesting.