Halloween 2024 Teaching Resources
Celebrate Halloween 2024 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 year 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 2024?
Halloween is celebrated on 31 October every year. In 2024, Halloween will be celebrated on a Thursday. 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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Subtraction Stew - Halloween Maths Worksheet
Have some spooky subtraction fun with a Halloween picture-model subtraction worksheet.
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3D Object Halloween Character Templates
Build some spooky Halloween characters with this set of five 3-D net templates.
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Write a Spooky Story - Scaffolded Writing Project
Inspire your struggling writers to write spooky stories that contain all of the story elements with a set of scaffolded writing activities and final draft paper.
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Counting Peg Cards - Halloween
Practise counting objects with a set of 18 Halloween peg cards.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Scared the Black Cat?
A logic-based Halloween-themed puzzle where students solve a mystery by reading clues.
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Halloween Interactive Assessment- Round to Three Decimal Places
Scare up some new assessment data when your student's round decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and thousandth with a Halloween-themed rounding decimals quiz.
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Halloween vs. Dia De Los Muertos - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Integrate reading, writing, and celebration of world cultures with differentiated paired passages comparing Halloween and Dia de los Muertos.
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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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Halloween Riddles - Codebreaker Worksheets
Crack the code and solve some seriously funny Halloween riddles with a set of printable Codebreaker worksheets.
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Halloween Contractions Activity - SCOOT! Card Game
Identify contractions and the words they replace with a printable Halloween Contractions Activity for Year 2.
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Halloween Spelling Worksheets
Practise weekly spelling words and add a Halloween twist with a set of printable Halloween spelling worksheets.
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Halloween Number-Word Matching Worksheet
Match numbers and number words with a pack of Halloween printable maths worksheets for year 1.
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Halloween Maths Worksheets - Spooky Ten Frames
Model numbers to twenty using ten frames with a spooky Halloween maths worksheet for year 1.
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A Book a Day Keeps the Monsters Away - Library Display
Get your students excited about reading with this interactive Book Review Library display!
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Triple and Double Digit Multiplication - Halloween Maths Worksheets
Use various strategies to solve 2-digit multiplication problems with a set of Halloween Multiplication Worksheets.
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Batty for 2D Shapes - Halloween Shapes Worksheet
Go batty and identify the 2D shapes with a printable Halloween Shapes worksheet.
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Funky Halloween Witch Craft Template
Colour and craft a fun witch with fabulous accessories with this funky Halloween Colouring Page and Craft Template.
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Crazy Creatures – Counting Worksheet
Bring a bit of (not-so) spooky counting into year 1 with a crazy creatures Halloween activity.
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Multiplying Decimals – Interactive Picture Reveal (Halloween)
Sharpen your students' decimal multiplication skills with an interactive Halloween picture reveal.
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Halloween Bat Outline Template
Craft a colony of bats this Halloween with a printable outline of a bat.
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Roll to Create a Spooky Scene Halloween Game
Create a spooky scene to include in a narrative text using a die and a chart with this fun, hands-on Halloween activity.
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Write About It! Pumpkins - Differentiated Writing Prompts
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of levelled informational writing prompts about pumpkins.
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The History of Halloween – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about the history of Halloween with a printable reading comprehension passage and questions.
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Halloween Shape Poem Templates
Inspire spook-tacular writing this Halloween with a variety of printable Halloween Shape Poem templates.
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