Halloween Activities for Kids

Maybe the best part of the generally super fun fall season is Halloween! It doesn’t have to be scary at all, and kids of all ages can participate.

Below, you’ll find the Halloween activities for kids we’ve done so far. We’ve done art, made crafts, played with many sensory activities, and enjoyed several fun printables, too! Even Halloween science activities are included.

My favorites? Halloween Quick Sand was awesome, but I think my all-time favorite is still Halloween Surprise Eruptions!

Preschoolers and kindergarteners can practice cutting AND use the pieces constructively! Great for different skill levels, as there are three different levels of difficulty for each of these Halloween Cutting Practice Puzzles.

My toddler loved this fun, simple, no-mess Halloween Fine Motor Invitation to Play using Halloween rings and pipe cleaners! Great for preschoolers, too.

My 2-year-old thought these printable cards were hilarious: This Halloween Baby Costumes Matching Game for Toddlers was great fun for him and helped him improve his matching, 1:1 correspondence, visual discrimination, and visual scanning!

Give kindergarteners as much or as little help as they need when they start writing their own sentences: These printable Halloween Costumes Writing Prompts for Beginners include four variations with and without suggested words.

This is a great printable game for kindergarteners learning their color and number words: Colorful Bats Memory Game, perfect for Halloween or any day! (And my toddler liked it, too :) )

This simple printable game is so much fun for my two-year-old: Bat Color Matching Game for Toddlers! Perfect for Halloween (non-scary!) or any time of the year!

This is awesome! 30 fun Halloween printables for preschoolers including math and literacy learning printables, coloring pages, games, and more! My kindergartener is going to love it, too!

Perfect seasonal printable for kindergarteners working on reading and writing simple words: Check out these Halloween Words Read, Trace, and Connect Worksheets!

Work on colors, vocabulary, and basic math skills like matching and one-to-one correspondence with this fun, simple printable Halloween Matching Game for toddlers!

This beautiful Halloween Sensory Bin with rice and beans wasn't meant as a sibling activity, but it turned out to be great fun for both my preschooler and my toddler!

Simple sensory water play for kids of all ages, perfect for siblings: Halloween Sensory Soup

Super fun Halloween Cookie Cutter Art for toddlers, using simple and colorful homemade, taste-safe paint!

A quick and simple logic activity: Halloween Preschool Predictions!

Grab some fun candy and make quick and simple Halloween candy patterns with your preschooler! You'll practice important math concepts, and you can eat your work when you're done - does it get any better?

Free Printables for Kids: Fine motor coloring fun with Halloween coloring pages!

Sensory Activities for Kids: Sibling Play with Dried Out Halloween Quick Sand

Simple Sensory Activities for Kids: I set up a quick and simple Halloween surprise in a muffin tin for my toddler. He loved discovering and exploring each little Halloween item!

I made a simple Halloween sensory bin for my toddler to explore!

Super simple crafts for kids: We read Aaaarrgghh! Spider! and made glittery spider webs!

Printables for Preschoolers: Fall Beginning Sounds Clip Cards

Simple messy sensory play with Halloween quick sand for toddlers!

Printables for Kids: Practice counting and fine motor skills with these cute Halloween Counting Clip Cards (5-10) for preschoolers and kindergarteners!

Literacy Activities for Preschoolers: Spelling Halloween words with beads and play dough! (Free printable included.)

Printables for Kids: Practice counting and fine motor skills with these cute Halloween Counting Clip Cards (10-20)! Perfect for kindergarten and first grade math centers.

Pumpkin decoration: Make a fluorescent pumpkin with the black light on while painting - it looks SO COOL!

Simple spiderweb craft for kids - for Halloween or just for fun any day of the year!

Have you ever seen a Halloween Tree? Not exactly true to nature but a fun, super simple Halloween craft for little kids!

Make some quick and simple fingerprint spiders with your kids - perfect as a non-scary Halloween craft, or just because it's fun!

Instead of sweets, I made Halloween treat bags with homemade magic play dough for my daughter's friends!

Pour painting pumpkins - a simple and beautiful way for little ones to decorate their own pumpkins!

A whole box of Halloween cloud dough - awesome fun!

Fun with an invitation to play with Halloween play dough.

It looked like plain baking soda but with the help of some vinegar, it turned into Halloween sensory fun!

Simple Fun for Kids: Thumbtacked Pumpkins

Do your kids love learning activities?

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