Halloween 2026 Teaching Resources
Celebrate Halloween 2026 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 2026?
Halloween is celebrated on 31 October every year. In 2026, Halloween will be celebrated on a Saturday. 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 by studying 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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Halloween Finish the Pattern Worksheet Pack
Have fun extending fun patterns with a printable Halloween Finish the Pattern Worksheet pack
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What Should My Teacher Be For Halloween? Writing Activity Pack
Have your students decide and write about what costume the teacher should wear on Halloween with a differentiated Halloween writing activity.
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Easy Halloween Word Search for Early Years
Build a wickedly-good vocabulary with our easy Halloween word search for early years.
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Halloween Connect the Dots Worksheets (1-50)
Practise counting up to 50 with a set of fun Halloween Connect the Dots worksheets.
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Printable Halloween Writing Paper Templates
Get creative with your Halloween Writing lessons with our printable Halloween Writing Paper Pack.
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Halloween Shapes - Colour By 2D Shapes Worksheet
Don’t get too spooked while trying to identify 2D shapes with a printable Halloween Shapes Colour by Code worksheet!
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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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Haunted House Worksheets - Descriptive Writing Activity
Draw and write about scary Halloween houses with a printable Halloween descriptive writing activity pack.
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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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Pumpkin Count and Colour - Halloween Maths Worksheet
Use these Halloween maths worksheets to practise counting sets of objects up to ten.
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Halloween Rounding Decimals Worksheets
Have fun rounding decimals to the tenths and hundredths place with our Halloween Riddle worksheets!
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Halloween Printable Colouring Pages - Zentangle Art
Bring some spooktacular zentangle art into the classroom with our printable pop art Halloween Colouring Pages.
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Halloween Roll-a-Story Dice Game
Spark spooky creativity with this Halloween Roll a Story game that helps students generate exciting writing prompts while making narrative writing fun and engaging.
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Halloween Printables - Read and Draw Worksheet
Practise comprehension skills with an exciting Halloween reading comprehension worksheet for year 4.
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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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Cut-Out Owl Template
Create a whole parliament of owls with a printable owl outline template.
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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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Comparing Numbers-Halloween Word Problems
Practise comparing numbers using MAB blocks with a Halloween Maths word problem worksheet.
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Using Greater Than - Less Than Symbols - Halloween Worksheet
Practise using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols to compare two-digit numbers with a fun Halloween worksheet.
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Halloween Page Biters - Printable Bookmarks
Take a bite out of a good book and keep your place with our printable page-biting Halloween bookmarks.
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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 3-Digit Subtraction Worksheet
Bring a bit of spooky season into your classroom with a printable Halloween 3-Digit Subtraction worksheet.
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