Halloween Activities for Preschoolers

Directions

1. Create a batch of "monster stew" using slime for a gooey hands-on experience.
2. Have kids use tongs to retrieve squishy skeleton toys (available at Walmart) from a Halloween-themed sensory bin.
3. During free-choice time, let children try to melt a frozen "monster brain" made of ice as a cooperative activity.
4. Help students construct their own slime monsters.
5. Improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination with a Pin & Pound activity using pumpkins.
6. For pumpkin pounding, use real golf tees instead of toy tools.
7. Provide Halloween-themed Lego building challenges for free-choice play.
8. Set up a web walking activity to get kids moving with gross motor exercise.
9. Add literacy elements to the web walking game, such as letter or word recognition.
10. Organize a ghost bottle bowling game.
11. Play a roll-and-cover game using Halloween-themed erasers.
12. Use candy corn pieces for a math-based Halloween game.
13. Create a Halloween math activity featuring Frankenstein characters.
14. Place estimation jars at a math center for a Halloween-themed guessing game.