Flying witches, haunting ghosts, jack-o-lantern smiles, and hooting owls help make Halloween an exciting, dramatic time of year. Share this occasion with your students by implementing these highly visual activities into your program. Includes activities that focus on these skills: phonics, word study, visual discrimination, printing, brainstorming, reading, art, drama, creative writing, and math. 

*Note to the Teacher or Caregiver*

This resource has been written so students are able to strengthen and practice their many reading, language, and mathematical skills using a special theme celebrated in North America. The theme is to be treated as a fun way to review and teach many concepts. Select and use the various activities with the students keeping in mind family customs and traditions. 

Learning Objectives:

• familiarize the students with the traditions of Halloween.
• acquaint the students with the various myths, legends, and superstitions that pertain to this festive occasion.
• make students more aware of Halloween Safety. 

Introduction & Teacher Notes:

• Letter to the Caregiver
• Learning Objectives
• Techer Input Suggestions
• List of Vocabulary
• List of Resources
• List of Skills
• Teacher Evaluation Sheet
• Student Checklist 

Phonics Activities and Worksheets

1. Initial Consonant Match: Color, cut out, mount, and laminate the picture cards and consonant cards. Store them in an-envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the consonant to the picture.
2. Final Consonant Match Color, cut out, mount, and laminate the picture cards. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the final consonant to the correct picture. 

Sound Worksheets

3. Visual Discrimination – Matching Letters
4. Initial Consonant "W"
5. Initial Consonant "P"
6. Initial Consonant "C"
7. Initial Consonant "J'
8. Initial Consonant "H"
9. Initial Consonant "G"

• Final Consonant "M" 

Word Study Worksheets

1.  Matching Upper- and Lower-Case Words: Cut out the word pumpkins. Color, mount, and laminate them. Store the pumpkins in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the upper- and lower-case words. 

2. Word/Picture Matching: Cut out the picture cards. Color, mount, and laminate them. Store the picture cards in an envelope with the word cards. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the picture cards and word cards correctly. 

3. Rhyming Picture Match: Cut out the picture cards. Color, mount and laminate. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the rhyming pictures. 

4. Word Puzzles: Cut out the word puzzles. Color, mount, and laminate the pieces. Store the puzzles in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will make Halloween words with the puzzle pieces. 

5. Halloween Words – Circle the Correct Word
6. Halloween Words – Compound Words  

Visual Discrimination Activities

1. Pumpkin Face Matching Visual Discrimination: Cut out the pumpkin faces. Color, mount and laminate. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the pumpkin faces that are the same. 

2. Witch Matching Visual Discrimination: Cut out the witches. Color, mount and laminate. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card. The student will match the pumpkin faces that are the same.

Printing Worksheets

1. Trace the broken line of Halloween shapes
2. Tracing Halloween Words
3. Tracing Halloween Words
4. Tracing the Path
5. Printing Halloween Words

Brainstorming Activities

1. Things in a Witch’s Brew
2. Orange Things
3. Spook Things
4. Round Things
5. Black Things

Answer Key

Reading Activities

Story 1 Picture Sequence – Harvest the mouse planted a seed.

Story 2 Picture Sequence – Johnny made a jack-o’-lantern.

Reading Worksheets:

1. Context Clues (Answer Key)
2. Following Directions
3. Following Directions
4. Illustrating Sentences

Halloween Story Book – Students illustrate it.

Witches Story Book – Students illustrate it.

Creative Writing Activities

1. Picture/Story – Trick or Treating
2. Picture/Story – Witch flying on a broom picking kids up
3. Picture/Story – Carving a Pumpkin
4. Pumpkin Book 

Art & Drama Activities

Art Activities

Half-page activity cards.

1. Painting Halloween Costumes
2. Cut and Paste Owl
3. Cut and Paste Jack-o’-Lantern
4. Cut and Paste Bat
5. Cut and Paste Mask
6. Modeling Halloween Symbols with plasticine

Drama Activities

The children can put the puppets together and make them talk

4 templates to make paper bag puppets. Students can color and cut along the dotted lines. Paste section A (the top half) onto the bottom of a brown paper bag. Section B goes underneath the flap on the side of the bag. 

1. Owl Puppet
2. Witch Puppet
3. Ghost Puppet
4. Cat Puppet

Math Worksheets

1. Counting by 1’s to 10
2. Counting by 1’s to 20
3. Completing Number Pictures
4. Illustrating Number Concepts
5. Counting Objects
6. Following the Dots

Answer Key

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