Halloween sensory writing activity with printable pumpkin alphabet

Great ideas for Halloween letter games and a Halloween sensory writing activity, with a cute printable pumpkin alphabet.

 

 

Halloween sensory writing activity with printable pumpkin alphabet

This printable pumpkin alphabet will give your literacy activities an instant Halloween theme. Try these ideas for multi-sensory writing and spelling activities.

 

 

Print the pumpkin alphabet cards from The Super Fun, Not Scary Halloween Unit and cut them out. You might like to laminate the cards to make them more durable. They you’re ready to use your pumpkin letters for all sorts of letter games.

 

 

Halloween-themed letter games

 

Using a sensory writing tray

You can also use the words with a sensory writing tray, to make spelling practice more fun and more effective. We need to put in time to learn to read and write, but repetition can sometime be unappealing. So, let’s make it fun for our children, with an element of sensory play.

You can write in sand or salt coloured with orange or green chalk to make it Halloween-themed, or try shaving foam.

Spray out a thin layer of shaving foam on to a tray, piece of thick card or other surface. Then use your finger write your words straight into the foam.

 

 

Younger children might like to make lines, circles, curls and squiggles.

Older children can use the pumpkin letters to copy, write their name or work on spelling.

As your children write they get to:

see the letter or word

feel the flow of the letters as they write the word through the shaving foam

hear the letter or word, as they say it out loud as they write

They’re combining three senses to help them learn and remember the word.