Halloween Teaching Activities: Lots of Fun Halloween Activities for Kids

Boo! It's that time of year when we can get by calling our kiddos little goblins. Welcome to the Halloween season. I don't know about you, but for me Halloween is a season that lasts for the entire month of October. I think it adds a little bit of magic and fun into the classroom. I wanted to share with you some of my latest Halloween teaching resources that are sure to be a Halloween hit in the classroom and homeschool classroom.

 First up is my Halloween fraction game. I wanted to create a fun way to learn about comparing fractions (and meet Common Core standards) so this fraction game board was the answer. This fraction board game has all you need to let your students learn about fractions and have fun.

First, get your students to create their candy bag fraction books. These books represent fractions and the students cut around the lines for each fraction. I added a candy bag to the book to tie into the theme for the game. For each of the fraction task cards, the children must decide which candy bag has the most candy. They can use their fraction book as a manipulative to help them with an answer.

This game includes 90 fraction game cards, costumed kids game pawns, directions, the fraction book, and an answer sheet. This works well as a Halloween math center .

Click {Here} for more about my fraction game for children.

 Of course you always need to add in a bit of science during Halloween. What about a craft too? I'm so excited about my life cycle of a pumpkin craftivity. It lets students learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin while they create a pumpkin craft. This craft is super any time of they year that you're studying plants.

Let's add in a bit of Halloween writing. These Halloween writing prompts are also a Halloween classroom decoration and they meet the Common Core writing a narrative standard. Each of the 40 prompts create a scenario where the students will write an imaginative narrative. Plus, use them as pencil toppers and you've got a nice little inexpensive Halloween present for your students. Yeah!

I also love my Clip It games. They are so great for recognizing numbers and counting. Plus they are super for fine motor skills. With my Halloween games, students use clothespins and clip the correct answer on each card. Just cut the cards apart and follow the rules for the game in the set. I have two Halloween themed sets.

 If you know anything about the Common Core standards and math, you know about ten frames. I thought I'd make learning about ten frames a little more fun and I added Jack-o-lanterns to the frame. These are my Halloween ten frames. Fun!

Who doesn't love candy corn. Here's my numbers 1-20 candy corn math clip it game too.

Thanks for taking a peek at my Halloween teaching resource round up. Please visit my TeacherPayTeachers teaching shop {Here} to learn more or visit my TeachersNotebook Shop {Here}.

I have to share one more Halloween goodie! Look what I got to eat after school today! {Aren't you Jealous.} Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!!!

And I almost forgot.... check out my classroom Halloween decor. This candy corn bunting is just too cute.

Thanks a bunch,
Robin

Fine Motor Skills Activities, Color Recognition, and Dinosaur Themed

If you know me, I'm big on fine motor skills for the little ones. I created this dinosaur themed activity for all who love to teach about dinosaurs. My main goal was to create an activity that promotes fine motor skills in a fun way.

Plus, plus special education students and students with autism often need help developing fine motor skills and I think that this activity is a good fit too.

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This is a super way to teach color recognition as well as get students to work with letter and word recognition. Why just teach one topic when you can teach more at the same time, right? Integrate fun!

Here's how it works. Let your little ones paint a set of clothespins. Paint one clothespin for each letter in the words for the colors that you'll use. So you will paint three red for R-E-D. We used tempera paint cakes. This is one of my classroom must-have items. Forget the jars or even the... gasp..powder. Use tempera cakes.

Then add the letters to the clothespins with Sharpie markers or any type of permanent marker. You'll need to do this step.

Now, what the kiddos will do is match or clip the clothespins to the stegosaurus that is the same color. Older kiddos will match the letters too. Notice how I left the letters off of the orange and yellow clips. This is for students who will have difficulty matching the letters too. 

One student can work on this dinosaur folder center or you can make a dinosaur train for a small group activity. Place the dinosaurs in a circle and put the clothespins in the center.

This is a perfect way for little fingers to work with fine motor skills as they clip each clothespin to the dinosaur's back. Plus, they'll have fun learning. You can find out more about this activity at my teaching resource store {here}

Columbus Day Activities: Classroom Columbus Lessons

It's almost Columbus Day. Are you ready? I'm ready to teach about Columbus Day in the classroom and I've created a few Columbus Day activities that I think you'll love.

I have some great Columbus Day activities for kids. This Columbus Day resource includes a Columbus Day math clip it activity, a Columbus Day craft, Columbus Day prompts, and Columbus Day coloring pages. Click on the image to learn more.

Kids love my clothespin activities. This clip it game lets students use clothespins to match the number to the Christopher Columbus images.

For older students, I've created this lesson that teaches students how to write a haiku. There are instructions for writing the haiku and they tie in with the four Columbus Day craftivities included in the pack. Click this Columbus Day Teaching Resource image to learn more.

I hope that one of these Columbus Day resources for kids is just what you need to teach about Columbus Day!

Thanks,
Robin