Halloween 2025 Teaching Resources
Looking for Halloween classroom decorations, elementary student activities, holiday-themed art projects for students and more ways to have a spooky good time this October? From printable worksheets to hands-on activities, the teachers of Teach Starter have created everything you need to make this fall holiday one to remember!
Created by teachers for teachers, this teaching resource collection includes Halloween ideas for teachers from pre-school to kindergarten, first grade to sixth grade, with options for reading center activities and math center activities, Halloween coloring pages, curriculum-aligned games and more!
This teaching resource collection was designed to provide you with a mix of holiday-specific activities and curriculum-aligned resources that bring a little bit of the spooky theme to your traditional teaching (spider symmetry, anyone?).
Thinking about celebrating for the first time in your classroom this year or just need a few fresh ideas? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
When Is Halloween 2025?
We know teachers have a lot on their plates, so this is just a reminder: Halloween is celebrated on October 31 in 2025 (and every year). This year, it will be celebrated on a Friday—music to every teacher's ears!
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 pre-K and kindergarten 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 with a study of 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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Happy Halloween Pennant Banner
Add a bit of (pumpkin) spice to your Halloween classroom decor with a printable Halloween bunting.
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4th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets - Superstitions
Learn about common superstitions and beliefs with a printable reading comprehension passage for 4th grade.
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Halloween Brain Game for Kids — Who Scared the Black Cat?
Download a Halloween brain game for kids with interactive elements that challenge your students to use logic to solve a spooky mystery!
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Page Biter Bookmarks - Halloween Printable
Take a bite out of a good book and keep your place with our printable page-biting Halloween bookmarks.
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Decorate a Pumpkin - Halloween Addition Game
Practice finding sums up to 12 with this fun Halloween Math Game!
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Halloween Bookmarks
Download Halloween-themed printable bookmarks for kids to hand out in the school library or classroom!
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Directed Drawing Activity - How to Draw a Spider
Teach students how to draw a spider with a fun directed drawing activity for elementary students.
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Printable Halloween Masks – Assorted
Get crafty and create fun Halloween costumes with printable Halloween mask templates.
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Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Cut and Paste Worksheet
Learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin with a cut and paste sequencing worksheet.
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How to Carve a Pumpkin - Accordion Book
Get crafty and inspire potential pumpkin carvers to write with a “How to Carve a Pumpkin” accordion book.
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Halloween Paper Fortune Tellers
Your students will love these spooky Halloween fortune tellers. Choose from a pumpkin, mummy, and bat!
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Build-a-Bird - Owl Report Writing Template
Build beautiful content-aligned Fall bulletin boards with our Owl-themed informational writing template.
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Halloween Crossword Puzzle
Start spooky season with a hauntingly horrific Halloween crossword puzzle.
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Halloween Door Decor Kit - The Boo Crew
Win that schoolwide door-decorating contest with a spectacularly spooky “Boo Crew” door display for Halloween.
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Hello Pumpkin! Fall Bulletin Board Display
Celebrate the coming of Autumn with a fall bulletin board display and an art activity.
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Build-a-Bat Report Writing Template
Research, write and create a bat report with a cut-and-assemble bat shaped writing template.
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Pumpkin Parts of Speech Worksheets
Review three parts of speech by sorting nouns, verbs, and adjectives with these four pumpkin-themed cut-and-paste worksheets.
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Printable Halloween Book for Kindergarten
Stretch your students’ reading and writing skills with a devilishly-delightful Halloween Mini Book.
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Alphabet Google Interactive - Letter G
Add hands-on literacy activites to your Halloween reading centers to help students identify, write, and learning the sound of the “ghostly” letter G.
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Halloween Math - Counting Clip Cards
Practice counting objects with a set of 18 Halloween clip cards.
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Halloween Count and Graph Worksheet
Practice counting objects with a Halloween count and graph worksheet.
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Halloween Words - Vocabulary and Writing Center
Stretch your students’ vocabulary and writing skills with a devilishly-delightful Halloween Vocabulary and Writing Center.
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A Book a Day Keeps the Monsters Away! — Bulletin Board Set
Print a monsters and reading-themed bulletin board bundle perfect for Halloween!
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Halloween vs. Dia de Los Muertos - Differentiated Paired Passages
Integrate reading, writing, and celebration of world cultures with differentiated paired passages comparing Halloween and Dia de los Muertos.
- Halloween 2025 Worksheets
- Halloween 2025 Templates
- Halloween 2025 Craft Activities
- Halloween 2025 Games
- Halloween 2025 Labels Signs Decorations
- Halloween 2025 Writing Templates
- Halloween 2025 Bulletin Board Displays
- Halloween 2025 Color by Code
- Halloween 2025 Puzzles
- Halloween 2025 Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Halloween 2025 Interactive Activities
- Halloween 2025 Task Cards
- Halloween 2025 Coloring Pages
- Halloween 2025 Escape Room Games
- Halloween 2025 Classroom Door Decorations
- Halloween 2025 Word Searches
- Halloween 2025 Dice Games
- Halloween 2025 Mini Book
- Halloween 2025 Bookmarks
- Halloween 2025 Word Walls
- Halloween 2025 Logic Puzzles
- Halloween 2025 Posters
- Halloween 2025 Fortune Teller Templates
- Halloween 2025 Book Review Templates
- Halloween 2025 Crossword Puzzles
- Halloween 2025 Sorting Activities
- Halloween 2025 Pennant Flags
- Halloween 2025 Tracing Worksheets
- Halloween 2025 Mazes
- Halloween 2025 Banner Display Letter Sets
- Halloween 2025 for Pre-K
- Halloween 2025 for Kindergarten
- Halloween 2025 for 1st Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 2nd Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 3rd Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 4th Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 5th Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 6th Grade
- Halloween 2025 for 7th Grade