Halloween is such a fun time for young kids. They get to dress up and pretend to be scary characters, and let’s not forget about collecting all the yummy candy!
But with the right set of worksheets at hand, you can make Halloween educational as well as fun. You can subtly teach them English, math, and fine motor skills.
And it’s easy to get the kids engaged because the tasks they have to perform are actually a lot more like games. And it’s a great way of keeping kids suitably occupied if you’re busy with other kids or busy doing other things.
In this article we’ll be listing 15 different engaging worksheets, all centered around the theme of Halloween. They will cover several different skills and topics, and we have something for a wide range of ages and levels of ability.
What’s more, they are all free to download and use, and you can print off as many as you’d like to. They feature cute characters and coloring, so be sure to have some nice colors to hand! Here goes!
With so many worksheets that focus solely on English or math, it’s important to find worksheets like this one that focus on other important areas, such as science, like this worksheet does.
It’s all about observation skills and examining whether a pumpkin will sink or float in water, and how this can be affected by such things as the size or weight of the pumpkin. You could compare different pumpkins, too.
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This is a great set of worksheets for teaching math to preschool age children because it’s colorful and engaging, and it gets kids counting pumpkins so that they can do easy addition sums.
Some of the sheets get the kids to find the right number of extra pumpkins required to make 10, and other sheets have them counting sums of pumpkins and have them drawing lines between the sums and the correct matching figure on the right-hand side.
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This nifty little packet has everything you could want, there’s a Color by number worksheet, Rhyming word matching.
Upper and lower case recognition practice, number recognition, a Math page with addition and subtraction, along with several other activities designed to challenge kid’s fine motor skills, which are important for their handwriting.
To access this worksheet packet, simply click on this link and supply your email address.
This super fun worksheet provides kids with prompts to write their very own Halloween themed story, getting them developing both their creative skills and their handwriting.
Each child rolls the dice 3 times. The first roll will tell them who their spooky main character is, their 2nd roll determines the spooky setting for the story, and the final roll determines the mission for the main character.
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These worksheets are inspired by the game Sudoku, but they do just fine for kids who struggle with math, because instead of featuring numbers, the grid is compiled with cute and colorful Halloween themed characters such as wizard worms, witches, and zombies.
The child has to cut out the characters on the bottom of the page, and use their logic to ensure that they stick them in the correct place, so that each row and column only features one instance of each character.
To access this worksheet packet, simply click on this link and supply your name and email address.
Kids just love decoding secret messages – especially when the theme is Halloween!
In this worksheet every letter of the alphabet is represented by a number, and a sequence of numbers is presented for the kids to substitute each number with the corresponding letter to decode the message.
And when they’re done, they get to color in a cute picture of a smiling happy pumpkin.
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This colorful worksheet features a huge word search puzzle for kids to get their teeth stuck into, with a long list of Halloween related words for them to find inside, and tick off once they are found.
It’s great for getting kids to learn their spelling, and it’s great fun to boot.
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This fun little game features a colorful border along with colorful bunting at the top. Then there are two columns featuring, in total, every letter of the alphabet, and a line on the right-hand side of each letter.
The child has to get creative and think up a Halloween related word that begins with each of those 26 letters, and write the remainder of the word on the line, thus practicing their handwriting as well.
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These fun worksheets combine both math and coloring. They feature a very large grid with multiple multiplication sums.
The child has to calculate each sum, and there’s a color key at the bottom, and the child has to color each square in the grid according to the color corresponding with that range of numbers.
When they’re done they will have a colored Halloween themed picture to show off.
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This is a great worksheet to give young kids on the run-up to Halloween because it asks them to think about what they would like to dress up as for Halloween, and draw a picture of it to color in.
Then they have to trace the words “For Halloween I will be a…” and they have to finish the sentence off for themselves.
Once they have written what they are going to be they can elaborate on that by describing what their costume will be like, practicing their handwriting.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link and supply your email address.
A great way to help children with their numeracy and their fine motor skills at the same time is to get them doing dot-to-dot puzzles, because they need to be able to know their numbers in numerical order and draw accordingly between the dots.
And with this set, when they’ve finished, they’ll have nice, smiling Halloween themed pictures that they then get to color in. Finished pictures include a witch and a pumpkin.
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This set of worksheets features colorful Halloween themed pictures on the left-hand side of the page, while on the right-hand side of the page are traceable numbers, and the child has to trace the correct number for the accompanying number of Halloween pictures on the left.
This way these worksheets test both their counting ability and their fine motor skills.
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These worksheets are aimed at kindergarteners and they feature 4 short and simple Halloween themed sentences on each of the 4 sheets going down the left-hand side.
And meanwhile on the right-hand side there are several Halloween themed images. The child must draw a line between each of the sentences and the corresponding picture.
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They have to read and understand 9 different passages that describe a Halloween character, and they have to guess which kind of monster is being described and write their answer down on the lines provided.
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This multi-pack of worksheets gets kids reading all about Halloween, then they test their understanding via a series of questions on the text on the following worksheet.
On the 3rd page, the kids have to spot the grammar errors in the same text, on the 4th page the kids have to write about another holiday, and the 5th page is an answer key.
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Final Thoughts
So as you can see there’s a wide range of Halloween themed worksheets out on the net that are free to download and use as you please.
There’s some for every level of education and every level of ability. They can be very fun, engaging, cute, and colorful. And to be perfectly honest with you, this list is just scratching the surface of what’s out there.
Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
