Category: Holiday: Halloween
This Monster Creative Writing Packet is a fun activity that encourages descriptive writing! This creative writing printable is currently FREE to download! Activities in the Monster Creative Writing Packet include: Describe the monsters using as many descriptive words as possible. Monster Details: Have everyone write a description of a monster and create a matching drawing. Use a lot of descriptive details. One by one, as one student reads their descriptions...
Halloween is just around the corner! My kids have chosen their costumes and we’ve got our spooky decorations up! I wanted to share some free Halloween-themed math worksheets that might appeal to your kids this next week or! In this post you’ll find different levels of addition & subtraction worksheets as well as multiplication and division pages. In a couple of days, I’m also going to add in some fraction...
Are you ready for some Halloween fun? This post has Halloween packets and printables in math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), writing, and science. We share a delicious homemade candy corn recipe. We have a packet of Halloween games to play at your event and much more! So, here we go! Halloween Writing Activity: Writing Scary Stories: Writing Workshop Mini-Lesson Halloween Math: Free 30-Page Halloween Multiplication Packet: Math Worksheets and Games...
Here’s a silly math worksheet for you! You probably know this riddle: Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road? Have your child figure out the answer using some math facts! I made these in addition, multiplication, division or just with number recognition. These are free to download! 🙂 Skeleton Math Riddle for Addition, Multiplication, Division or Number Recognition Other Free Halloween-Themed Math Worksheets: Free Halloween Multiplication Packet (30 pages of...
Today I would like to share another free Halloween packet of math worksheets and games. This contains free addition and subtraction worksheets. Since everyone’s kids are at different levels, I included some very basic/beginning addition worksheets that cover +2 facts as well as doubling (2+2, 3+3, 4+4…) as well as sheets that go into carrying or borrowing. There are about twenty pages, so hopefully there are a few sheets your...
I have a 30-page Halloween-themed Multiplication Packet to share with my amazing readers today! This packet has 20 or so multiplication worksheets. These cover the 2s through the 9s (even though my daughter hasn’t covered all the math fact families yet, I still included all of them.) You can print out two pages on one sheet to save space. I printed two per page, folded them in half and...
With Halloween coming up and the house decorated with creepy spider webs and stuff, it’s the perfect time to dabble in writing scary stories! I thought I would share the materials I made for the kids for our Writing Workshop. This lesson was all about Writing Scary Stories! Before they delved in to writing their story, I wanted to spend some time talking about what makes a story creepy. Scary...
Fun Halloween Freebies (with links to free Halloween printables for younger kids too)! I have made the kids lots and lots of fun math worksheets over the years! Below you’ll find free Halloween PDFs for multiplication and division and for fraction practice. They are free to download if you can use them. Plus, I’ve added in a dozen other Halloween and Fall Freebies you might find helpful… from addition and...
A couple of years ago, we did some spooky science with dry ice. We’re going to do some of these activities again this week, but I thought I’d share some of the things we did then in case you want to try these activities with your kids. I went out and bought some dry ice and we did a number of experiments. You can see suggestions from Steve Spangler science and a...
I have made tons of fun math worksheets for the kids over the years. Below you’ll find some free Halloween math practice pages for Addition and Subtraction Practice and for Skip Counting and Coin Counting. The first couple of pages are Halloween-themed addition and subtraction worksheets: Free Halloween Addition-Subtraction Practice Worksheets The other pages are on Halloween-themed skip counting and coins. (They are in a separate PDF.) Halloween Skip counting...
Halloween will be here really soon! If you are wondering what to do with all that Halloween candy, you can always do some science! This is an experiment I did with my kids a while back with Skittles in water. I think the results are fascinating: Floating Letters: Another fun thing to do with Skittles or M&Ms is to see if you can make the letters float on water. Just submerge...
I saw this idea in a Halloween book and thought we’d give it a try! All you need is a cereal box or shoe box, black paint and ping-pong balls to make this Ghostly Game! Paint the box black, cut out a ghost, and glue it on. Have a parent cut holes in the box and push the tabs down. Once you’ve decorated your ping pong balls, the game is...
Each year, I organize a huge Halloween party. We have lots and lots of games for the kids. The kids all have lots of fun!! Today I wanted to share some of the games that we play at our party… Each year I try to change things up a bit, but here are some games that we’ve done in the past. I wanted to share this early enough this year...
If you are wondering what to do with all that Halloween candy, you can always do some science! This is an experiment I did with my kids a while back with Skittles in water. I think the results are fascinating: Do you want to do other fun experiments with candy? Be sure to visit this great website, Candy Experiments written by Loralee, a mom of three. She recently wrote a post Candy Experiment Cards...