We gathered our Halloween activities on this page, to print at home or in the classroom. There are mazes, word searches, read-and-match pages, crosswords, cut-outs and spelling worksheets with words of the season. You can start with the two free sets or go straight to the full pack of 38 activities, and everything comes as a PDF in color and in black and white.
What’s in each one?
| Who it’s for | What’s inside | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Halloween activities | Ages 5 to 8 | A maze, a word search and a read-and-match page, with answers | 5 |
| C, k and ck Halloween worksheets | Grades 1 to 3 | Four spelling activities with Halloween words, with answers | 7 |
| Halloween activity pack | Ages 5 to 8 | Read and match, crosswords, mazes, word searches, cut-outs and coloring | 50 |
Which age are they for?
The free activities and the full pack are for children who are just starting to read, roughly between 5 and 8. That’s why they use short words, big pictures and instructions that fit on one line.
The c, k and ck worksheets go a step further. They’re made for children who already read and write with some ease, in first to third grade, and they practice when the /k/ sound is spelled c, k or ck in words like cauldron, skeleton and broomstick. If you’d like to go over the rule first, it’s explained in c, k or ck?
Color or black and white?
Every download includes both versions. The color one looks best on screen, or printed when there’s ink to spare. The black and white one is the one to print at home or photocopy for the whole class without using up the color cartridge.
How to print
- Choose the activity and download it. The free sets download directly.
- Print on letter-size paper at actual size, with “fit to page” turned off.
- The answer keys are at the end of each file. Take them out before handing the pages out, or keep them for checking together.
Where Halloween comes from
The activities are more fun when you know the story behind them. On our blog we tell where Halloween came from, the legend of the jack-o’-lantern, why there are scarecrows at Halloween and how the pumpkin, a plant from Mexico, ended up on every porch in October. For the days right after, there’s Halloween vs. Day of the Dead.
Questions
Can I use them at school?
You can print them, photocopy them and hand them out in class as many times as you need, with the whole group.
Will there be more?
Over the season we’ll add coloring pages and new activities, including some for the Day of the Dead. We’ll publish them here and in our printables.