Halloween 2023 Teaching Resources
Celebrate Halloween 2023 in your classroom with Halloween activities, classroom decorations, craft projects for students, and more ways to have a spooky good time this Australian October!
This Halloween teaching collection includes activity ideas for teachers from kindergarten and prep, through to grade six, with options for literacy and maths rotations, colouring pages, word search printables and more!
Looking for more ideas to get ready for Halloween with your students this school year? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
When is Halloween 2023?
Halloween is celebrated on October 31 every year. In 2023, Halloween will be celebrated on a Tuesday. Halloween in Australia falls in Spring.
How Do People Celebrate Halloween in the Classroom? Fun Activities for Kids!
- Make Halloween slime (it's green) in your science classes to explore chemical reactions and the relationship between liquids and solids
- Make Halloween Page Biter bookmarks in the school library to keep the pages of books safe!
- Print Halloween bookmarks to hand out to trick-or-treaters in your school.
- Use prep and foundation students' hands and feet to create fun Halloween characters (think vampires, monsters, ghosts and pumpkins) with green and orange paint, googly eyes, and more.
- Learn about nocturnal animals with a study of bats.
- Dive into the skeletal system with an exploration of bones — and some spooky skeletons!
- Explore our entire Halloween collection for more teacher-created Halloween ideas!
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Monster Magic - Reading Comprehension Activity
Read and comprehend a set of instructions to create a magical monster!
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The Escape From Millbrook Manor – Whole Class Escape Game
Practise computation skills by solving puzzles with this differentiated Halloween escape room game.
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Making Monsters Subtraction - Worksheet
Have some spooky subtraction fun with three differentiated Halloween subtraction worksheets.
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Symmetry Worksheets
Use this set of eight symmetry worksheets to help students understand symmetry, the line of symmetry, and symmetrical objects.
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Halloween Escape Room - The Missing Treat Mystery - Multiplication and Division
Solve the mystery of who stole all the treats from the Halloween Party with an interactive Halloween Escape Room featuring multiplication and division.
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Roll to Create a Creature Game
Roll a die and use the chart to create a creature to include in a Halloween Story or a comic strip.
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Area and Perimeter Haunted House - Year 5 Halloween Maths
Design your own haunted house and practise finding the perimeter and area of rectangular figures with an exciting Halloween mathss Activity!
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Make a Monster - Art Activity Template
Make a spectacularly fun monster with a printable Monster Craft Template.
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Halloween Mystery Escape - Multiplication and Division for Year 5 and 6
Uncover the identify of the thief who stole the pumpkin projects with a printable Year 5 multiplication and division Halloween escape room activity.
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2-Digit Addition Colour by Number - Halloween Mystery Picture
Celebrate the coming of Halloween and practise adding 2-digit numbers up to 99 with this set of Halloween mystery picture worksheets.
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Year 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheets - Superstitions
Learn about common superstitions and beliefs with a printable reading comprehenion passage for Year 5.
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Escape from Pete's Pumpkin Patch - Halloween Escape Room
Escape the evil witch who turns children into pumpkins at Pete’s Pumpkin Patch using inferencing, problem solving, and grammar skills.
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Haunted House for Sale - Creative Writing Activity
Use persuasive language and description writing to sell a haunted house with this exciting Halloween Haunted House Project!
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Halloween Colouring Pages - Printable Mindful Colouring
Bring a bit of calm to the classroom this October with a set of printable Zentangle Halloween Colouring in Pages.
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Printable Halloween Masks – Assorted
Get crafty and create fun Halloween costumes with printable Halloween mask templates.
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Year 4 Reading Comprehension - The Day of the Dead Reading Passage
Read and learn about the Mexican holiday, Dia De Los Muertos, with a reading passage and Year 4 reading comprehension test.
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Halloween Area and Perimeter Colour by Number Worksheet
Use these Halloween colour-by-number worksheets to practise identifying the perimeter and area of regular polygons.
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Spooky Subtraction Colour by Number - Worksheet
Bring some spooky maths fun into the classroom with a Halloween colour-by-number worksheet focused on subtracting four-digit numbers.
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3 Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Game Cards
Practise 3-Digit subtraction with regrouping strategies with a printable set of subtraction strategy task cards.
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Spooky 3-Digit Subtraction - Year 3 Halloween Maths Game
Practise triple-digit subtraction with regrouping with an exciting hidden picture Halloween Maths Game.
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Who Lives in a Haunted House? Finish the Drawing Activity
Draw and write about all the kooky nouns in a haunted house with a printable Halloween words worksheet for Year 2.
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Funky Pumpkin Craft Template
Get ready for Halloween with this popular Zentangle art pumpkin craft featuring a customisable Jack-’o-lantern with funky glasses.
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Funky Cat - Halloween Art Activity
Print this fun Halloween craft activity and use Zentangle pattern art to create a cat with funky accessories.
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Funky Fox Craft Activity
Create a funky fennec fox with a printable fox craft for kids.
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