Halloween 2026 Teaching Resources
Celebrate Halloween 2026 in your classroom with Halloween activities, classroom decorations, craft projects for students and more ways to have a spooky good time this Australian October!
This Halloween teaching collection includes activity ideas for teachers from kindergarten and prep, through to year six, with options for literacy and maths rotations, colouring pages, word search printables and more!
Looking for more ideas to get ready for Halloween with your students this school year? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
When Is Halloween 2026?
Halloween is celebrated on 31 October every year. In 2026, Halloween will be celebrated on a Saturday. Halloween in Australia falls in Spring.
How Do People Celebrate Halloween in the Classroom? Fun Activities for Kids!
- Make Halloween slime (it's green) in your science classes to explore chemical reactions and the relationship between liquids and solids
- Make Halloween Page Biter bookmarks in the school library to keep the pages of books safe!
- Print Halloween bookmarks to hand out to trick-or-treaters in your school.
- Use prep and foundation students' hands and feet to create fun Halloween characters (think vampires, monsters, ghosts and pumpkins) with green and orange paint, googly eyes and more.
- Learn about nocturnal animals by studying bats.
- Dive into the skeletal system with an exploration of bones — and some spooky skeletons!
- Explore our entire Halloween collection for more teacher-created Halloween ideas!
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Roll to Create a Creature Game
Roll a die and use the chart to create a creature to include in a Halloween Story or a comic strip.
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Funky Cat Art Activity
Print this fun craft activity and use Zentangle pattern art to create a cat with funky accessories.
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Make a Monster - Art Activity Template
Make a spectacularly fun monster with a printable Monster Craft Template.
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Monster Magic - Reading Comprehension Activity
Read and comprehend a set of instructions to create a magical monster!
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Spider Writing Worksheets - Year 1
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of leveled informational writing prompts about spiders
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Halloween Escape Game - The Missing Lolly Mystery - Multiplication and Division
Solve the mystery of who stole all the lollies from the Halloween Party with an interactive Halloween Escape Game featuring multiplication and division.
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Bat Facts and Opinions Worksheet
Identify facts and opinions with a Halloween worksheet activity about bats.
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Area and Perimeter Haunted House - Year 5 Halloween Maths
Design your own haunted house and practise finding the perimeter and area of rectangular figures with an exciting Halloween mathss Activity!
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3 Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Game Cards
Practise 3-Digit subtraction with regrouping strategies with a printable set of subtraction strategy task cards.
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Rounding to 10, 100, and 1000 Worksheet — Halloween Colour-By-Number
Round each number to the place of the underlined digit with a fun Halloween colour-by-number worksheet.
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Halloween Mystery Escape - Multiplication and Division for Year 5 and 6
Uncover the identify of the thief who stole the pumpkin projects with a printable Year 5 multiplication and division Halloween escape room activity.
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Creature Creator - Verb Tense Task Cards
Create a mystery creature using past, present and future tense verbs.
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Making Monsters Subtraction - Worksheet
Have some spooky subtraction fun with three differentiated Halloween subtraction worksheets.
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Haunted House for Sale - Creative Writing Activity
Use persuasive language and description writing to sell a haunted house with this exciting Halloween Haunted House Project!
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Halloween Counting to 10 Worksheets
Count, write, and match numbers and objects with printable Halloween counting worksheets.
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Haunted Preposition House - Halloween Worksheet
Practise using prepositions and prepositional phrases with a a fun and spooky Halloween worksheet!
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Using Greater Than - Less Than Symbols - Halloween Worksheet
Practise using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols to compare two-digit numbers with a fun Halloween worksheet.
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Halloween Division Mystery Picture - Multi-Digit
Have a bit of Halloween maths fun with a division colour by number worksheet.
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Movable Halloween Skeleton Template - Printable
Craft a bit of creepy classroom decor for Halloween with a Build Your Own Halloween Skeleton template.
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Spooky Sums Tarsia Puzzle – 3-Digit Addition
Practice three-digit addition skills with a Halloween pumpkin tarsia puzzle.
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Parts of Speech Worksheet - Halloween Nouns and Verbs
Use this English grammar worksheet to add some Halloween spirit to your nouns and verbs lessons with a cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Year 4 Reading Comprehension - The Day of the Dead Reading Passage
Read and learn about the Mexican holiday, Dia De Los Muertos, with a reading passage and Year 4 reading prose comprehension test.
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Scarecrow Division Colour by Number Worksheet
Have fun with your Halloween maths practice with a division colour-by-number worksheet!
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Triple and Double Digit Multiplication - Halloween Maths Worksheets
Use various strategies to solve 2-digit multiplication problems with a set of Halloween Multiplication Worksheets.
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