Halloween Round Up Ideas and Activities

This Halloween Round Up Ideas and Activities post is full of ideas to keep your students engaged this Halloween! You can tap into that fun energy by doing lots of themed activities, crafts and lesson plans. The great part about “doing Halloween” in your classroom is that while students will be having fun, you can still guide them in their learning. You don’t have to give up any class time (except maybe for a party!) because fun and learning are happening at the same time! Explore this Halloween Round Up post to see if you can find something fun to do with your students this Halloween!

Easy Halloween Round Up Ideas for Kids

1. Pumpkin Mosaic Art Project

Here’s a fun, easy art project for your littlies with no scissors needed! Give them a large piece of black construction paper and torn pieces of orange and yellow paper. Then they can simply glue or paste down the pieces into a pumpkin shape. Some may want to draw their pumpkin shape on the black paper first with some chalk.

2. Halloween Words Story-Writing

First, have your students generate a class list of as many Halloween words as they can think of. Have the list posted where students can see it. Then challenge them to write a story using as many of the words as they can. They’ll have fun hearing or reading each others’ stories! Offer a small prize to the student who uses the most words from the list.

3. Ghostly Decor

Have some fun making some hanging ghosts to “spookify” your classroom. Simply blow up some white balloons and then cover them with a white sheet or some other type of white fabric. Students can either cut out eyes, nose and mouth out of black paper or fabric or they can draw the faces on with black marker. Add white string to hang the ghosts around your room!

4. Spooky and Icky!

This is a great way to encourage your students to think of adjectives and increase their vocabulary. Get various items that you can rename as spooky or icky things and place them in bags. Label the bags with some Halloween-y terms, like eyeballs, intestines, worms, etc. Some items you could use would be spaghetti for intestines, grapes for eyeballs, jello for brains, rice for maggots, etc. Let the students feel inside the bags (make sure they can’t see inside) and then list as many words as they can to describe the texture of the “ick.”

5. Erupting Pumpkin Volcano!

A fun, but messy, volcano experiment. You’ll need a small pumpkin (or several mini-pumpkins would be fun too), some baking soda, food coloring, and vinegar. Hollow out your pumpkin … you may also want to carve it so that the “lava” will ooze out of the face when it explodes! Then fill your pumpkin about 3/4 full with some warm water and add food coloring. Then you’ll add a few tablespoons of baking soda. You can use a bit less if you’re using the mini-pumpkins. Put a pie plate or something under the pumpkin to catch the ooze! Then when you’re ready pour in some vinegar and stand back! Your kids will love this!

Erupting Pumpkin Volcano Extension – Add some science to your volcano by explaining why the volcano explodes. The baking soda is a base and the vinegar is an acid. When they come together they undergo a chemical reaction that produces a gas, carbon dioxide, that fizzes and bubbles.

Halloween and fun go hand-in-hand! Do you have any tried and true activities for your Halloween classroom? Share them with us!

You may be interested in reading: Fall Craft Round Up and Some Fun Freebies

Halloween THEMED resources you may wish to explore:

• Puzzles and Activities Pack
• Centers Puzzles and Games
• Math Activities | Halloween Math Centers | Skip Counting | Graphing
• Writing Prompts | Story Starters | Write a Poem | Vocabulary Cards

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