10/25/2026
🎃👻 HALLOWEEN WEEK IN KINDERGARTEN! 🦇🕷️
Teachers, Halloween week is almost here, and I've put together a FULL week of fun, hands-on learning activities for our little learners!
We're bringing Halloween into literacy, math, science, and art with some of our favorite children's books! And the best part? These activities are simple, engaging, and perfect for classroom centers!
🍂 MONDAY – PUMPKIN PATCH FUN! 🎃
📚 Read-Aloud: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
✏️ Literacy: Sequence the events using picture cards, retell the story, and practice identifying beginning sounds with pumpkin-themed words.
🔢 Math: Pumpkin Number Match! Students match numbered pumpkins 1–20 with the correct number of pumpkin seeds or counting manipulatives.
🧪 Science: Pumpkin Volcano! Hollow out a small pumpkin, add baking soda, and slowly pour in vinegar mixed with food coloring. Watch the bubbly reaction!
🎨 Art: Tissue Paper Pumpkins! Students tear orange tissue paper and glue the pieces onto pumpkin outlines. Add green stems to finish.
🧙♀️ TUESDAY – WITCHES, BROOMS & RHYMES!
📚 Read-Aloud: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
✏️ Literacy: Identify rhyming words, discuss the characters, and retell the story in the correct order.
🔢 Math: Witch's Cauldron Addition! Give students mini cauldrons and plastic spiders or pom-poms to practice addition within 10.
🧪 Science: Dancing Raisins! Add raisins to a clear cup of carbonated water and observe how the bubbles make them rise and fall.
🎨 Art: Build-a-Witch! Students use circles, triangles, and rectangles to create their own witches while practicing shape recognition.
🕷️ WEDNESDAY – CREEPY CRAWLY WEDNESDAY!
📚 Read-Aloud: Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
✏️ Literacy: Identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution. Students draw and write about their own silly, spooky vegetable.
🔢 Math: Spider Web Counting! Students roll a die, count the dots, and place the matching number of plastic spiders on a spider web mat. Compare more and fewer.
🧪 Science: All About Spiders! Learn about eight legs, spider silk, different webs, and how spiders help our environment. Examine pictures and discuss observations.
🎨 Art: Spider Web Creations! Use black construction paper, white yarn, and glue to create spider webs. Add a handprint spider!
🎃 THURSDAY – PUMPKIN STEM CHALLENGE!
📚 Read-Aloud: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
✏️ Literacy: Discuss teamwork, make predictions, identify story characters, and retell the story using puppets.
🔢 Math: Pumpkin Measurement! Students use linking cubes to measure pumpkins, compare their sizes, and put them in order from smallest to largest.
🧪 Science: Sink or Float? Have students predict whether pumpkins will sink or float. Place pumpkins in a water bin, test their predictions, and record the results.
🎨 Art: Pumpkin Stamping! Use washable orange paint and pumpkin-shaped sponges or halved mini pumpkins to create pumpkin prints.
👻 FRIDAY – HALLOWEEN FUN DAY!
📚 Read-Aloud: The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey
✏️ Literacy: Discuss kindness, friendship, and how our words affect others. Students complete the sentence: "I can be kind by..." and draw a picture.
🔢 Math: Candy Corn Patterns! Use colored paper candy corn pieces or manipulatives to create AB, AAB, and ABC patterns.
🧪 Science: Magic Ghost Experiment! Draw little ghosts on white coffee filters using washable markers. Add drops of water and observe how the colors spread.
🎨 Art: Paper Plate Ghosts! Students decorate paper plates with cotton balls, add faces, and attach white streamers.
🎉 FRIDAY HALLOWEEN CENTER ROTATIONS!
Set up stations around your classroom and let students rotate through:
👻 Halloween Bingo – Letter, sight word, or number recognition.
🎃 Pumpkin Bowling – Knock down numbered pins and count how many fall.
🕷️ Spooky Sensory Bin – Orange and black pom-poms, plastic spiders, scoops, and counting cups.
🧡 Halloween Playdough – Create pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and spiders while strengthening fine motor skills.
📚 Literacy Center – Halloween letter matching, rhyming puzzles, and beginning sound activities.
🎨 Creative Art Center – Make a Halloween picture and write a sentence about it.
🍬 MATERIALS TO GATHER:
Mini pumpkins, plastic spiders, orange and black construction paper, tissue paper, glue, yarn, cotton balls, washable paint, paper plates, linking cubes, dice, baking soda, vinegar, food coloring, clear cups, raisins, carbonated water, coffee filters, playdough, and Halloween-themed books.
Adult supervision is needed for experiments, water activities, and small manipulatives.
⏰ SUGGESTED DAILY SCHEDULE:
📖 Morning Read-Aloud: 15–20 minutes
✏️ Literacy Mini-Lesson: 20 minutes
🔢 Math Activity: 20–25 minutes
🧪 Science Investigation: 20–25 minutes
🎨 Art Project: 25–30 minutes
🎃 Learning Centers: 30–40 minutes
🍁 OUR LEARNING GOALS FOR THE WEEK:
✔️ Retell and sequence stories
✔️ Recognize rhyming words and beginning sounds
✔️ Count, compare, add, and create patterns
✔️ Make predictions and record observations
✔️ Explore simple science concepts
✔️ Strengthen fine motor skills
✔️ Practice creativity, teamwork, and kindness
And don't forget to send home a little Halloween learning packet with pumpkin counting, ghost letter matching, and a fun drawing-and-writing activity!
Teaching doesn't have to be all worksheets and pencils! Sometimes the BEST learning happens when our students are exploring, creating, laughing, and getting a little messy!
Teachers, which activity would your kindergarten kiddos love the most? 🎃👻
❤️ The Messy Southern Teacher
