Halloween is such an exciting time for preschoolers and kindergarteners! I mean we wouldn’t love dressing up their favourite character and getting treats?!
Here are some fun and festive halloween themed math activities that you can use to bring that same excitement to your classroom or home.
Numbered Bat Puzzles
Have your learner practice counting forward from 1 to 5 with these numbered bat puzzles.
Instruct your learner to complete the puzzle by ordering the numbers from 1 to 5.
As they complete the activity, they will further increase their ability to count forward, and they will reveal some really cute halloween bats!
Activity Includes: 8 numbered bat puzzles
Download the Numbered Bat Puzzles here!
Mixing Potions!
Working on number sense and subitizing with your learner? Use these potion bottles representing numbers 1 – 10 to strengthen your learner’s sense of numbers.
Instruct your learner to find 3 potion bottles with the same number to create the perfect potion! Numbers are represented by numerals, fingers, and dots.
Activity Includes: 3 empty potion cards, 10 purple potion bottles, 10 orange potion bottles, and 10 green potion bottles. 33 bottles in total.
Download the Mixing Potions Activity here!
Halloween Themed Number Puzzles
Puzzles are great for problem solving and strengthening our cognitive abilities. Instruct your learner to complete the 4 piece puzzles to reveal a spooky halloween numbers!
Pro Tip! Sometimes puzzles are tricky because learners have a hard time visualizing the end project. If this is your learner, print 2 copies but only cut one. Use the uncut copy as an exemplar, or a base to complete the puzzle on. This creates a matching aspect to the activity too… the more skills to practice the better!
Activity Includes 10 halloween numbers puzzles
Download the Number Puzzles here!
Halloween Themed Number Sense Mat
Did I mention how important number sense is??
The more opportunities your learner has to further develop their sense of numbers, the more comfortable they will become with numbers and mathematical concepts. Help your learner build a great mathematical foundation by giving them plenty of chances to engage with numbers.
This Halloween Number Sense Mat will definitely do the trick. Simply instruct your learner to match the groups of halloween items with the corresponding number on the mat.
Pro Tip! Use velcro dots for easy application.
Activity Includes: 1 Number Sense Mat, and 10 halloween item tiles
Download the Halloween Number Sense Mat here!
Pumpkin Ten Frames
Ten frame activities are perfect for working on one-to-one correspondence and counting skills. And if you have pumpkin or halloween themed erasers, they will be perfect for this activity!
If not, that’s ok too…use the set of printable pumpkins to complete the activity. Either use the regular pumpkin tiles, or spice the pumpkin ten frames up by using the silly face pumpkins.
Instruct your learner to fill the frame with the correct number of pumpkin tiles, or any other manipulative.
Activity Includes: 10 pumpkin ten frames, and 20 pumpkin cards tiles.
Download the Pumpkin Ten Frames here!
Halloween Treats Counting Clip Cards
Whether you will be enjoying sugared treats or healthy alternatives, these Halloween treats counting cards will help your learner practice one-to-one correspondence and counting. Dab, colour, or clip the correct number of treats.
Activity Includes 10 counting clip cards
Download the Halloween Treats Counting Clip Cards here!
Witch Pot Shape Match
Learning shapes and being able to differentiate based on attributes are some of the foundational skills for geometry.
So have your learner work on sorting shapes with this hands on activity. Instruct your learner to sort all the witch pots based on their shape.
Pro Tip! Use velcro strips for easy application.
Activity Includes: 9 shape cards (rectangle, heart, square, circle, diamond, hexagon, oval, triangle, and pentagon) and 27 shape pot tiles.
Download the Witch Pot Shape Match Activity here!
Number Sequence Stew
The witch is brewing up a stew of numbers!
Choose a Witch Instructions Card and create the number sequence with the numbered pots. Practice counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. Or count from 1 – 10, or even 1 – 20. All options are included for you.
Activity Includes 6 Witch Instructions Cards, and 60 numbered pot cards.
Download the Number Sequence Stew Activity here!
Are you ready to get in the halloween spirit and set up your classroom or home with these printable, low prep, fun, and engaging halloween themed math activities?
Bundle all 8 Halloween themed math activities and get 2 bonus activities!
Silly Spider Legs!
Everyone knows that a spider has 8 legs…but not these silly Halloween spiders! Instruct your learner to choose a card, and to use play dough to give the silly spider the same amount of legs as the number represented.
Activity includes: Spider Numbers 1 – 20, Silly Spider Mat
Halloween Pattern Cards
Increase your learners patterning skills, specifically, their ability to predict what comes next. Instruct your learner to find the last tile that completes the pattern.
Pro Tip! Attach Velcro pieces to the pattern tiles and pattern cards.
Activity Includes: 16 Pattern Cards, 2 Blank Pattern Cards, 35 Pattern Tiles.
Note: All the images included on the pattern cards are available to you as pattern tiles. You may choose to include them all during the activity for increased difficulty, or you may wish to only include the answer tiles which complete the cards. You know your learners best!
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