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🎃 13 free Halloween activities for K-2
Plus a video about not-so-creepy creatures and a handy organizational tool
Karly Moura & Christina Sciarrotto
October 28, 2025
Spooktacular fun & learning!
This week we're diving headfirst into the spirit of Halloween with a massive collection of free, engaging, and educational activities perfect for your K-2 students. From virtual escape rooms and spooky engineering challenges to read-alouds and not-so-creepy creature videos, we have everything you need to bring some festive frights (and fun!) into your lessons.
Inside:
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates: 13 Free Halloween Activities
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior: Not-So-Creepy Creatures!
🛍️Teacher Finds for the Classroom: A colorful and practical classroom organization tool.
😄 Giggle of the Week: Teaching on Halloween 😬
❤️ Share your ideas with us!
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates
13 free Halloween activities for K-2
Get ready for a treat! We've scoured the web to bring you 13 free, high-quality, and completely engaging Halloween activities that are perfect for your kindergarten through second-grade classrooms. These resources cover a wide range of subjects, ensuring your students can celebrate the season while reinforcing essential skills in literacy, math, and STEM. From decoding secret agent messages to carving virtual pumpkins, click through below to download your new spooky favorites!
🔎 Secret Agent Jr. Codebreaker Halloween Activity Pack
 | This Halloween Secret Codes activity pack reinforces early literacy skills by having students use simple keys to decode Halloween-themed vocabulary words. |
📙 Book Creator Halloween Activity Journal
 | The Book Creator Halloween Activity Journal is filled with ready-made digital template packed with creative, customizable activities all centered around Halloween and fall themes. |
✏️ Halloween Activity Worksheet Pack
 | This Halloween Activity Book includes Halloween Counting worksheets for math, Pre-Writing practice for fine motor control, and a Maze Puzzle for logic. You'll also find fun extras like a Memory Game, a Pattern completion activity, and a simple Scavenger Hunt to keep students engaged. |
🎃 Carve a Virtual Pumpkin
 | Here’s a fun Halloween activity that your class or kids can enjoy: virtual pumpkin carving from ABCya! Once you’re finished, click on the “DONE” button for a special surprise. |
🖍️ Halloween Color by Number
 | The worksheet pack from The Best Ideas for Kids includes a variety of Halloween images, including a classic jack-o'-lantern, two figures in bat costumes, a friendly witch, a stylized Frankenstein's monster, and two pages featuring candy corn. |
📘 Halloween Hustle Read Aloud
 | The story “Halloween Hustle” by Charlotte Gunnufson is about a skeleton who is dancing his way to a Halloween party. As he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart. |
🔠 Halloween Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
 | A Halloween scavenger hunt is a fun activity for kids during the Halloween season. This alphabet scavenger hunt involves finding Halloween-themed objects for each letter. |
👻 To Catch a Ghost Read and Draw Along
 | Hear To Catch A Ghost read aloud live by author Rachel Michelle Wilson. The story centers on a child determined to catch a ghost for show-and-tell, but the experience becomes complicated as they unexpectedly form a friendship with the ghost. |
🎮 PBS Kids Halloween Games
 | Students can enjoy seasonal games like Arthur's Tricks and Treats and other spooky-themed adventures centered around their favorite PBS characters. |
🪄 Mysterious Mathemagic
 | Mysterious Mathemagic is a fantastic way to practice number facts and build number sense through engaging math tricks where the "treat" is revealing the math behind the magic. |
⚙️ Engin-eerie Actvities
 | Challenge your students to construct one or all four of these fearsome engineering feats: a candy pumpkin launcher, a bone bridge made out of Q-tips, a mini marshmallow and toothpick tower of terror, and flying paper bats! |
🕸️ EEK-O-Systems
 | As your students voyage through the EEK-o-systems, they’ll learn all about the world’s spookiest animals . . . if they DARE! |
GAK Attack
 | Slime your way to science with these engaging, hands-on activities. |
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior
🦇 Not-So-Creepy Creatures! | Halloween Guessing Game
🎥 Video Link: Not-So-Creepy Creatures! | Halloween Guessing Game
Join Jessi, Mister Brown, Squeaks the Robot Lab Rat, and all their friends at the Fort as they conduct experiments, research new questions, and talk with experts to learn about the science-filled world around us.
Key points covered in the video:
Animals often thought of as “scary” (bats, owls, spiders, snakes) have amazing adaptations and important ecological roles.
Learning about them helps reduce fear by replacing misconception with knowledge.
The themed format — making it a game with clues — makes the learning playful and accessible for kids.
Each animal segment highlights one or more special features: echolocation, neck flexibility/hearing, web-building/jumping, ecological value—not just “creepy” facts.
Encouragement to view these creatures with curiosity rather than fear.
Ready-made video resources:
Use these resources to extend the learning after or during the video.
✏️ Mini Animal Reports
Students can share what they have learned about each of the not-so-creepy creatures with these simple animal report pages. Original Bat Report template created by Taylor A. Education on Canva.
⁉️ Wayground interactive video quiz
This Wayground video quiz turns the video above into an interactive experience. Students will guess the animal along with Squeaks and Mister Brown before the answer is revealed in the video.
🛍️Teacher Finds for the Classroom
🔌Product
These 100 colorful wooden clip push pins are perfect for your K-2 classroom! They let you hang student artwork and notes on a bulletin board without damaging the paper, and the different pin colors help you color-code and stay organized. They come in a tidy bucket for easy, safe storage.
🤭 Giggle of the Week
👨🏼🚒 But those tiny Halloween costumes ARE pretty adorable!
h/t to We Are Teachers