Welcome to NurtureStore’s index of Halloween activities for children, part of our World Festivals Lesson Plans and Activities. Here you will find ready-made Halloween lesson plans, Halloween crafts, and free Halloween printables.
Halloween activities and crafts for children
You can use the links below to see all NurtureStore’s Halloween activities and crafts. They include a arts and crafts, math, literacy and science activities inspired by pumpkins, cats, bats, and spiders.
The Super Fun, Not Scary Halloween book
Save time and teach better by using The Super Fun, Not Scary, Halloween book.
You’ll get a complete set of lesson plans to learn about this festival and a collection of activities, arts, and crafts all planned for you: instant download, printables included, no prep needed, and all ad free.
See more details of the Super Fun, Not Scary, Halloween book here.
Ready-made Halloween Unit
If you’re a member of our Play Academy you can download a ready-made five day Halloween Unit and you’ll be ready to lead a week of fun and educational Halloween activities with your children.
This Unit is part of our Festivals specialist curriculum pathway, and is a part of a set of ready-made units you can use to teach your children about the festivals of the world all through the year. Based on the teaching philosophy of hands-on learning, the Play Academy festivals curriculum is engaging, effective and loved by children.
See more details of the Play Academy and choose your first Unit here.
More Halloween activities and crafts
You can use the links below to see all NurtureStore’s Halloween activities and crafts, organised by category: arts and crafts, sensory play, math activities, literacy activities, and science activities.
Halloween art and crafts
Easy pumpkin craft for scissor skills
Here’s a cute and easy pumpkin craft for preschool that is great for practising scissor skills.
Doodle-style easy pumpkin art lesson for kids
Here’s an easy pumpkin art lesson that anyone can try – we’re doodling!
Pumpkin marbling with shaving foam
Marbling with shaving foam is a fun art technique that’s easy to do and looks unique every time. Try it to make these gorgeous marble pumpkins for an easy Halloween art project for kids.
Easy pumpkin suncatcher craft
Here’s an easy pumpkin suncatcher craft that’s simple to make and so pretty. It’s a great, simple pumpkin craft for toddlers and preschoolers, and perfect for a group.
Splatter painting with pumpkin and bat templates
For a super fun Halloween art project try splatter painting with pumpkin and bat templates to create negative space silhouettes.
Simple pumpkin art project using pipette painting technique
If you’re looking for a simple pumpkin art project for Halloween, use this pipette painting technique – it’s gorgeous!
Easy pumpkin suncatcher craft with printable template
Here’s an easy pumpkin suncatcher craft with a printable pumpkin template that’s simple to make and so pretty. It’s a great, simple pumpkin craft for toddlers and preschoolers, and perfect for a group.
Halloween lantern craft made from paper
This Halloween lantern craft made from paper is perfect for families, classes and groups. It uses very simple materials and each child can create their own unique design.
Splatter painting with pumpkin and bat templates
For a super fun Halloween art project try splatter painting with pumpkin and bat templates to create negative space silhouettes.
How to make an easy spider craft
Here’s a simple spider craft for preschool that’s great for Halloween craft or nursery rhyme fun.
Pumpkin decorating art party
For an alternative to a traditional Halloween party, try a pumpkin decorating art party!
Paper lanterns
How to make paper lanterns from willow.
How to make Halloween yarn pumpkins
This Halloween pumpkin craft is certainly messy play and great fun for children who love to get their hands into everything.
Glow in the dark Halloween lanterns craft
These glow in the dark Halloween lanterns are easy to make and look fantastic when they are lit up.
Yarn wrapped spider craft
This ever so cute, not really scary yarn wrapped spider is easy to make and offers a great fine motor skills work out for little fingers.
How to make a paper Halloween house with printable folding guide
This lesson on how to fold a paper house offers a printable folding guide. The Halloween house makes a super decoration, and use you also use it as a Halloween play set or a social story for Halloween trick-or-treating etiquette.
Yayoi Kusama pumpkin art lesson
Learn about the famous artist Yoyoi Kusama and create a pumpkin artwork inspired by her style.
Laurel Burch cat art lesson
Explore the work of Laurel Burch and create cat art inspired by her use of line and pattern.
Sensory play activities for Halloween
Fine motor activity with pumpkins
This is a super fun and messy fine motor skill activity with pumpkins. It’s the perfect Halloween finger gym!
Halloween fine motor skill finger gym
This is the perfect fine motor skill finger gym for Halloween. We’re making play dough monsters!
Pumpkin play dough mat
This cute pumpkin play dough play mat printable is perfect for autumn and Halloween. As children play they can chat about their pumpkin and they’ll be building their fine motor skills too.
Halloween messy play with goop oobleck
Try this easy recipe for goop, also know as oobleck, for some glorious Halloween messy play.
Spider scissor skills printable cutting sheets
Use these spider scissor skills printable cutting cards to set up a Halloween-themed cutting centre. Great for fine motor skills!`
Halloween sensory tub
Make this Halloween sensory tub with waterbeads, or try my other sensory tub filler suggestions. Add in the pumpkin letter printable for great literacy-themed sensory play.
Smoothie making lesson for kids
This smoothie making lesson for kids invites children to read, write, make choices and taste new flavours as they create their very own smoothie recipe. It’s the perfect Halloween potion activity for your class party!
Halloween messy play – jello sensory tub
A super fun idea for Halloween messy play – how to make a jello sensory tub!
Spider play dough mat printable
This fun spider play dough play mat printable is perfect for Halloween sensory play. As children play they can chat about their spider and they’ll be building their fine motor skills too.
Math activities for Halloween
Pumpkin games
Quick to set up, lots of fun to play: try these pumpkin games for some seasonal maths and literacy practice.
Halloween math activities
Before you eat all your trick-or-treat candies, let’s count, measure, estimate and graph them with these fun Halloween math activities.
Printable pumpkin numbers cards
Use these cute printable pumpkin number cards with these ideas for pumpkin math games to add a seasonal, multi-sensory element to your math lessons.
Spooky sums Halloween math games
Here’s a frightfully fun set of spooky sums – a great Halloween maths game!
Literacy activities for Halloween
Spider spelling activity
This spider word printable brings a fun Halloween theme to your writing and spelling activities.
Spider writing cards printable
Use these spider writing cards printables to create a Halloween-themed marking making and handwriting centre.
Free printable pumpkin alphabet set
Use this free printable pumpkin alphabet set to make an autumn-themed literacy center – and try these easy fall letter activities.
Halloween writing prompt for kids
Use this Halloween writing prompt for kids to dream up the ultimate Halloween costume!
Halloween sensory writing activity
Great ideas for Halloween letter games and a Halloween sensory writing activity, with a cute printable pumpkin alphabet.
Science activities for Halloween
Pumpkin fizzy science experiment for Halloween
In this Halloween science experiment we’re combining two simple ingredients to make a chemical reaction full of fizz. This is a great sensory play activity with an added fizzy science lesson.
What’s inside a pumpkin? investigation
Use this autumn and halloween science lesson to investigate what’s inside a pumpkin.
8 easy science experiments using Halloween candy
These easy science experiments using candy are perfect for the day after Halloween trick or treating. Try one!
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