Halloween Printables for Kids

If you are looking for some simple and engaging activities for your kids this Halloween season, you have come to the right place. Here are a few printables I have made that are all free to download for personal use below. There is a ghost craft template, ghosts and bats snack sort, candy corn alphabet hunt, as well as a spooky soup water play recipe. Hope these printables and ideas can help to add some simple and enjoyable fun for your kids this holiday season!

This file is best printed out onto white cardstock and used as a template to cut out onto black cardstock. You will need contact paper or clear packing tape. Kids can use cut up tissue paper squares to fill in their ghost. My kids made some with white flowers that they picked from our yard. This template can also be used for a simple cut and paste activity in the classroom or to create ghost stuffies out of black and white felt.

My kids wanted to draw and color in their own stuffies like we had done in the past for Easter so we ended up using just the ghost outline part of the template.

We folded our half yard of white felt in half and used the template of the ghost outline to cut them out. We found that tracing the template onto the felt with a pencil made it much easier than just sticking the paper template onto the felt as it kept moving. I then hot glued the pieces together leaving the top open so my kids could stuff them with Poly-fil.

We used a large black Sharpie to draw in our main ghost features and colored them in using regular Crayola markers.

Then we stuffed them and hot glued the top closed. My older kids also really enjoyed this. Older kids can also be challenged to sew the pieces together rather than just gluing.

This file is best printed out onto white cardstock. You can slip it into a heavy duty sheet protector to make it last longer. Just grab a bag of seasonal Veggie Chips and let kids sort. This is a wonderful snacktivity for toddlers and preschoolers and requires minimal prep. Sorting is a wonderful activity for young children as it helps them to categorize and develop visual perceptive skills. If you prefer not to make this into an snactivity, you can make ghosts out of white lima beans, and paint bow tie pasta black for bats. My preschooler loved this activity and it has been on repeat. This activity can be extended with counting, comparing quantities, and introducing subtraction by eating the ghosts and bats.

This simple alphabet mat is a fun way for preschoolers to work on letter recognition. You can use alphabet erasers or magnetic alphabet letters or even felt letter stickers from the Dollar Tree. Hide the letters in a sensory base like rice dyed for the season or around the house for kids to find.

We have also hidden letters in jack-o-lantern plastic eggs from Target. Kids can then use candy corn, corn kernels, or just a marker to cross off their letters.

Lastly I made a printable for spooky soup that can be taken outside and paired with water play. This is an activity that my kids all really enjoy. As we still have warm sunny days in early October, my kids have spent many afternoons concocting spooky soup to serve. If you don’t have a water table, plastic storage tubs will do. This printable is best printed out onto white cardstock and slipped into a laminated pouch or heavy duty sheet protector. Kids can use a dry erase marker to change out the numbers of each item in their recipe for spooky soup. I found most of the items for the soup at the Dollar Tree and added white flowers from our yard as well.

Your child may also be interested in:

Countdown to Halloween

Paper Witch Hat Craft

Halloween Playdough Mats

Personalized Halloween Coloring Pages

Halloween Lunch Box Notes

Free Halloween Coloring and Writing Pages

Zombies Don’t Eat Veggies Math and Crafts

I create more printable activities for kids here with the goal of helping to grow kids who love to learn.

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I hope this post can help to add some festive fun for your kids!