Fun Kindergarten Halloween Centers, Games, & Activities – Free File

Published: October 10, 2024
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Kindergarten Halloween Activities

In a kindergarten classroom, Halloween ranks pretty high. In the month of October, the countdown to the Halloween season begins as teachers brace themselves for the final few days of the Halloween frenzy!

Today I’m sharing some of my favorite kindergarten and first-grade Halloween activities. You will find Halloween games, centers and activities that I think your little learners will love!

Halloween Centers!

Kids love getting into the Halloween spirit! I seriously think it might be their favorite holiday throughout the year. They start talking about their costumes in August!

Halloween in the classroom is a blast… but it is also exhausting! I have some fun ideas to combine Halloween fun with skills practice. Your kindergarten kids will love these easy prep activities during this spooky season.

Halloween Math Practice

These math activities offer spooky fun while young children build number sense.

Halloween Math Fluency Game

In this math center, we offer differentiated choices in a fun way. Some students will be working on number recognition while others will be working on other number concepts like addition or subtraction. This is one of our favorite Halloween activities because they are racing toward the finish line which is the haunted house. You can use mini erasers or pom poms as game pieces too if you wish.

Kindergarten Math Centers for Halloween

Here are a few Halloween-ish centers. Perhaps your school does not participate in Halloween? If so, a bat activity is always fun!

Each of these math centers can be found in this Bat Center Unit:

Bats Phonics Literacy Games and Math Centers for Kindergarten

Halloween Activities for Kindergarten – Digital Centers

If you haven’t tried out Boom cards yet, you are missing out! These self-correcting, digital activities are tons of fun and great to keep students engaged while reviewing and practicing various skills. kindergarten students will love these Halloween-themed activities.

I have tons of Boom decks that are always ready to go! I especially love these seasonal activities for those special times of the year. This little sweetie is playing the Haunted Digraphs game. Check out a preview of this Halloween center activity by clicking HERE.

Would you like your students to practice some math skills? There are Boom decks for that too! This little guy is practicing subtraction with Halloween candy to solve word problems in the Boom deck, Candy Subtraction.

Why I love Boom Decks

I love Boom Learning Decks because…

The are self correcting. Students get INSTANT feedback on their attempts.
You can see how students are doing with the student data reports. You can see how long each deck took the students to complete and how many attempts (guesses) students made. This prevents the student from trying ALL the answers. They slow down and think about their responses.
No prep! Those two words are golden! You just assign the decks and students do the rest! SWEET!

You can find these Boom Decks:

These Seesaw Math and Literacy Centers make a great Halloween activity for your iPads or Google Classroom tasks.

These Seesaw centers can be loaded with just 1 link! Easy Halloween Activity PREP = the BEST Halloween activities EVER! Plus, the y are so much fun! They check off each activity after they complete it.

You can find these Halloween centers here:

Seesaw Preloaded Halloween Themed Math and Literacy Centers

Halloween Printable Centers

Digital activities are fun, but sometimes you need good old paper and pencil (and crayon) literacy activities! I love these roll, read, and write activities! Plus, they are editable! It is a perfect way to focus your instruction to match your classroom needs. Students can practice sight words…

or letters! Adding the dice is a great way to drive up engagement. The best part is students think of these fun activities as games, so they stay focused longer.

That is a miracle at this exciting time of the year.

As students roll the die, they write the word. If they roll a six, the fill in one of the boxes in this Halloween Color Worksheet.

You can find these editable Halloween center printables:

Roll and Write Letters Sight Words & Science of Reading Words Editable Halloween

Halloween Sentence Writing Activities

I have about a million of these sentence writing activities! Pretty much some for every holiday and season there is! But, the kids never get tired of them. Students practice their handwriting while also improving their fine motor skills. The Halloween set is perfect to throw into a center bin… or use as morning work!

Kid illustrations are the best!

You can find this set of Halloween Sentence Worksheets:

Halloween Sentence Writing Practice and Building Worksheets for Kindergarten

Halloween Literacy Center Activities

Here are a few more of the Bat Center Activities that I shared above!

Each of these literacy centers can be found in this Bat Center Unit:

Bats Phonics Literacy Games and Math Centers for Kindergarten

Decodable Texts for Halloween

Several years ago, I would have probably talked about emergent readers; however, with the growing amount of research around how students learn to read, I have fallen in love with decodable texts.

This little Halloween decodable text is a ton of hands-on fun!

These decodable readers are part of a year-long thematic set.

Halloween Fall Pumpkin Decodable Readers Cut and Paste Interactive Activities

Looking for More Halloween fun?

I have put together a list of some of my favorite October activities and Halloween books for read alouds . You can find each blog post and more free files below:

Happy Halloween, friends!