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👻 Spooktacular Halloween fun for your classroom!
13 free K-2 activities, codebreakers, read-alouds, and monster-themed SEL & STEM lessons inside.
Karly Moura & Christina Sciarrotto
October 20, 2026
A little spooky fun for you!
October is in full swing, and we are thrilled to share a round-up of spooktacular Halloween classroom games, crafts, and STEM activities designed to keep your young learners engaged. We are also spotlighting Amanda Noll's beloved picture book, How I Met My Monster, featuring simple ways to tie its whimsical characters into your literacy, SEL, math, and friendship lessons. Read on for ready-to-use printables, clever teaching ideas, and creative inspiration to bring a little extra magic into your classroom this season!
Inside:
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates: 13 Free Halloween Activities for K-2
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior: How I Met My Monster
😄 Giggle of the Week: Gearing up.
❤️ Share your ideas with us!
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates
👻 13 free Halloween activities for K-2
Get ready for a spooktacular October in your K–2 classroom with these engaging, hands-on holiday resources!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
 Note: Students don’t have to sign in. Just click the x in the corner. | Create, carve, and share your spooky masterpiece in our interactive pumpkin carving game. Play instantly, no downloads, no mess, and completely free to play! |
🖍️ 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. |
🎮 PBS Kids Halloween Games
 | Students can enjoy seasonal games like Arthur's Tridcks and Treats and other spooky-themed adventures centered around their favorite PBS characters. |
👹 Halloween Printables from ABC Mouse
 | Free printable Halloween crafts and activities, including build-a-character crafts, coloring pages, word searches, games, and more Halloween fun. |
🎃 Try a Pumpkin Science Experiment
 | Check out this a menu of pumpkin science experiments and activities to get you through the beginning of fall to Halloween (and beyond).
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⚙️ Halloween STEM Challenge Cards
 | If you’re looking for a fun, engaging Halloween activity, try these Halloween STEM Challenge Cards! With this free download you get 15 STEM challenges, all of which can be completed with simple household materials.
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📺 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 and the not-so-creepy creatures around us. |
Bonus! 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.
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior
🧌 How I Met My Monster
🎥 Video Link: How I Met My Monster on Teachflix
How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll is a playful bedtime story about a fearless young boy named Ethan who discovers a group of whimsical monsters under his bed competing for the official job of scaring him enough to stay in bed and fall asleep.
Ready-made video resources:
Teacher's Guide Access lesson plans and discussion prompts in the Storyline Online Activity Guide.
Monster STEM Challenge Engage students in hands-on problem-solving with a themed Carly and Adam STEM Activity.
Printable Finger Puppets Encourage dramatic play and retelling using these Flashlight Press Finger Puppets.
Playdough Monster Sculpting Combine fine motor skills and storytelling with this Perkins Playdough Monster Activity.
Interactive "Build-a-Monster" Game Review skills and play interactive learning games on PinkCatGames.
Monster Coloring & Activity Pack Download additional activity pages, worksheets, and printables on Teach Your Monster.
🤭 Giggle of the Week
Source: WeAreTeachers