Halloween Activities For Preschoolers

Halloween is the perfect time to add a little spooky fun to learning and play! These Halloween activities for preschoolers include simple crafts, sensory play, games, and hands-on learning ideas designed for young children. Whether you’re planning a classroom celebration or a festive afternoon at home, you’ll find plenty of engaging ways to celebrate the season.

Spider Number Matching Activity

This spider number matching activity is a fun, hands-on way for kids to practice number recognition! It’s perfect for a Halloween math center.

Decorate A Haunted House Tray

Halloween is full of candy, monsters, and pumpkins, but preschoolers need activities that won’t scare them! This decorate a haunted house tray is the perfect non-scary activity for young kids who scare easily. Using simple supplies form home, you can create beautiful haunted houses that make the perfect decorations for your house or windows. 

Haunted Pumpkin Patch Sensory Bin

Halloween is full off ghosts, spiders, and pumpkins, and this haunted pumpkin patch sensory bin allows kids to enjoy the pumpkin patch at home! Using fake pumpkin and vines, you can create your own pumpkin patch.

Bubbling Witches Brew Experiment

This Bubbling Witches Brew Experiment is the perfect STEM activity for preschoolers to get ready for Halloween! Made like a traditional volcano experiment, this Halloween version is so much better than regular volcanoes. 

Candy Corn Catapult

Make Halloween memorable with this candy corn catapult! This STEM activity allows kids to create a catapult and use it to throw candy corn into a cauldron.

Halloween Boat STEM Challenge

Explore engineering with your preschooler with this fun Halloween boat STEM activity! Kids will use mini pumpkins as boats and explore STEM concepts, such as buoyancy, cause and effect, and more. 

Skeleton Pool Party Sensory Bin

This skeleton pool party sensory bin is a fun and unique way to build motor skills and explore different sensory inputs! Kids will love this fun twist on a regular sensory bin that includes plastic skeleton in pool noodle floaties. 

Halloween Following Directions Worksheets

Halloween is a magical time of year for children, full of pumpkins, costumes, and a little bit of spooky fun. It’s also the perfect season to sneak learning into the excitement. These Halloween Following Directions Worksheets are designed to help students practice listening and comprehension while enjoying festive coloring pages.

Edible Pumpkin Patch Sensory Bin

Imagine a tiny pumpkin patch popping up right on the kitchen table. Made from crunchy cookie “soil” and colorful candy, everything is safe for little hands to explore and taste. This edible pumpkin patch sensory bin turns a simple fall morning into a magical adventure where toddlers can scoop, pour, and (most importantly,) taste little treasures. 

Pumpkin Pie Playdough Tray

Somewhere between a playful pumpkin patch and a pretend bakery lies the Pumpkin Pie Playdough Tray, a sensory adventure for little hands and big imaginations. It’s a fall-themed invitation to play where cotton balls become whipped cream, orange dough becomes pie filling, and tiny pie tins hold the day’s best pretend dessert. 

Halloween Coloring Pages

Cute Halloween coloring pages for kids that you can print out for free and have the kids work on as they enjoy the spooky holiday.

Halloween Crafts For Kids

Jack-O-Lantern Craft

Black Cat Paper Bag Craft

Mummy Handprint Craft

Monster Binoculars