A Pumpkin Glyph!
A Halloween-themed data/glyph activity that teaches students to represent personal facts about themselves non-verbally through symbolic pumpkin drawings (a 'glyph').
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Bring excitement to your classroom with Halloween projects that combine learning and fun. This collection includes costume design, haunted house storytelling, and science experiments with a spooky twist. By integrating these projects into your lessons, you can enhance creativity and engagement during the Halloween season.
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A Halloween-themed data/glyph activity that teaches students to represent personal facts about themselves non-verbally through symbolic pumpkin drawings (a 'glyph').
The Animated Craft: Jack-o-Lantern VI A teaching resource that brings the joy of crafting into classrooms, designed specifically for fall-themed activities.
Get ready to unleash your inner bat expert with the Bat Craft Cut and Glue Activity, a hands-on project that’s way easier than trying to befriend an actual bat. With just a few snips and dabs of glue, you’ll go from a pile of paper pieces to a fully assembled (and far friendlier) bat. No mosquito diet required! Here’s how it works:…
A Halloween-themed craft/science project where students assemble a paper skeleton from cut-out bone pieces, optionally personalized with the student's name spelled out in the ribs.
Students will create their own candy corn craft with these fun and engaging fine motor craft ideas. This craft allows students to practice building their fine motor skills as well as allowing them to create their own, unique candy corn.
A complete no-prep lesson (lesson plan, materials, and printable flip-book components) teaching students to write free-verse sensory poetry with a Halloween theme, using the five senses and onomatopoeia.
Halloween cut-and-glue craft where students assemble a paper ghost from separate pieces.
A multi-activity Halloween-themed craft and activity package combining early literacy, fine motor, and math skills across a range of printable projects for young students.
Halloween Ghost Crafts DIY Handprint Art - October Homeschool Activity Children will enjoy creating their own ghost art using handprint crafts with this fun Halloween activity. Designed for early learners through 4th grade, this printable features a gray background with spiderwebs and the letter B. Kids can decorate the page by adding…
Halloween Handprint Art, DIY Ghost Craft Celebrate Halloween with this fun ghost handprint craft for kids! Children of all ages, from toddlers to grade 4 students, will enjoy making this DIY printable. To complete, simply add paint or googly eyes to customize the ghost with your child's handprint. Hang up their boo-tiful art around the…
Provide a Halloween-themed hands-on 3D paper craft project for children to build a black cat, developing fine motor and cutting/folding/assembly skills.
A Halloween-themed craft project where students assemble a pop-up greeting card.
A Halloween-themed craft and creative-writing project combining a pop-up card with writing prompts.
Provide a lapbook/interactive-notebook project that teaches the history and origins of Halloween (Celtic Samhain roots, Christian All Saints'/All Souls' Day, modern American traditions) through assembled mini-booklets.
Halloween-themed cutting-practice craft templates for young children.
Spider Craft Template and Directions is a great resource to have for Halloween!! Engage your students in a spook-tacular Halloween or October craft that combines fun and skill-building with this captivating spider craft!
Brew up some fun with the Witch’s Cauldron Craft, a fall and Halloween project that’s bubbling with creativity, but thankfully, no weird potions or questionable ingredients! In this hands-on craft, students will cut and glue different parts to create their very own witch’s cauldron, no eye of newt or frog toes required.
A cut-and-paste Halloween craft in which students assemble facial features onto a pumpkin (Jack-o'-Lantern) and a ghost.