Getting Spooky With It: Halloween Crafts and Lesson Plans for Your Little Pumpkins!

Halloween is just around the corner. There is a chill in the air and the thoughts of Halloween candy make grown adults giddy with happiness. How can you not love a good Snickers Bar or Kit Kat? But enough about delicious, high-calorie, amazing sweets. Do you have your Halloween lesson plans complete?

If not, here are some craft ideas of things you can do with your students from around the web! They are spook-tacular, fun, and slightly batty too! These crafts are easy enough for toddlers to try too.

They improve eye-hand coordination, dexterity/fine motor skills, and enhance creativity. Another plus, they feature process art techniques.

Make a Spider Handprint Craft! from Happyhooligans.ca.

Paper Plate Frankensteins will add monstrous appeal to your classroom from Parents Magazine! 

Candy Corn Craft Using Pom Poms To Paint from Crafty Morning are super sweet! 

Now that we have our crafts cover, do you have any new and exciting ideas for Halloween centers, printable, and homework? 

Why not check out the following items I have made recently that will add a touch of cutesy creepiness to your lessons? 

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Bat Color Match! This is perfect for math centers and features colorful bats and moons. A math mat allows students to place the bats and moons on the math mat to create a  silly and spooky scene. 

Bat Color Match 

The Halloween Toddler Pack is just right for the littlest pumpkins in the patch! This pack includes a Skull Color Match, counting the ghosts in the haunted house ghosts and math mat, big and small frog/lily pad sort, Jack O' Lantern Emotions, and more! This will surely amp up the just right spooky factor.

Halloween Toddler Pack

Here's a boo-tiful idea! Have some very friendly ghosts visit your classroom with my Halloween Ghost Activities! pack, children will match ABC ghosts to their matching haunted house, write the numbers on a ghost counting sheet, and draw a ghost and answer simple questions pertaining to their drawing.

Halloween Ghost Activities

Add a creepy crawly vibe with a Halloween Spiders Pack that invites students to sort spiders by size, match opposites using Spiderweb Opposites Cards, build spider words, and complete a Spider Facts Answer Graphic Organizer and more. 

Halloween Spiders Unit

Are you ready to get a little spooky with it now. Best wishes to Happy Halloween teaching!