Need preschool Halloween activities or preschool lesson plan Halloween ideas? Also grab these free Halloween cutting activities for preschool! Great to go with pumpkins, jack o lanterns, bats, spiders, ghosts Halloween themes, games for preschoolers for Halloween, or other fall activities for preschoolers / pre-kindergarten and preschool Halloween lessons.
Awesome Preschool Halloween Activities And Fall Theme Fun
Need preschool activities for Halloween or fun autumn ideas for preschoolers? We have preschool Halloween theme activities, crafts, costumes fun, spooky food, Halloween games, free Halloween printables and teaching resources for young children in preschool, pre-K, or kindergarten!
Try these Halloween preschool activity ideas for preschool themes for Halloween…
What do preschoolers do for Halloween?
What do you teach preschoolers about Halloween?
- Do a Halloween sensory bin for Halloween sensory activities for preschool
- Have a trick or treat scavenger hunt for fun Halloween-themed activities
- Make a STEM fizzy jack-o-lantern (Halloween science activities)
- Practice with Halloween cutting activities (fun learning Halloween ideas for preschool)
- Grow a pumpkin inside a jack o lantern (one of those super fun educational activities for fall!)
- Make friendly monster slime (for an un- spooky science idea)
- Use little pumpkins for crafts (there are so many things to do with small pumpkins for little kids!)
- Do candy corn counting and sorting / pumpkin seed counting
- Make a Halloween sensory bin with cotton balls, black and orange pom poms, and spider rings
- Learn about spiders and do spider activities
- Use black, orange, and purple water beads to create a Halloween sensory water bin or sensory bag
- Have fun with Halloween coloring activities for preK printables
- Do candy counting for preschool math activities for Halloween (fun for Halloween themed math centers to practice math skills!)
- Use Halloween candy for games
- Read Spookly the Square Pumpkin (and then watch the Halloween show!)
- Have a costume parade for fun activities for preschool Halloween party
- Make an un- haunted house (have fun Halloween stations instead!)
- Dress up in Halloween costumes and have your own Halloween parade at a nursing home or retirement center (ask if you can bring some Halloween decor / fun decorations for the guests!)
- Read books about Halloween (great book suggestions for your emergent reader!)
- Sing super simple songs for Halloween and fall
- Host a ghost dance
- Have fun with Halloween bingo or play Halloween bing math matching
- Do Halloween cooking activities for preschoolers
(See the full details for childrens activities for Halloween below — Halloween family fun with ideas, tips, tricks, and even fun way to celebrate with Halloween decorations for younger kids! BE SURE TO KEEP SCROLLING FOR THE FREE HALLOWEEN ACTIVITY PACK! Added bonus!)
Don’t miss the free Halloween activities for preschoolers printable cutting activity pack at the bottom of the post! Download it now and add it to your fall theme activities for preschoolers!
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Let’s get our fun halloween activities for preschoolers — great way to incorporate the Halloween holiday in to your little kid learning!
Creative Halloween Theme Activities for Preschoolers
Add these fun but simple Halloween activities for preschool to your autumn learning ideas / preK Halloween activities and great Halloween craft ideas!
IMPORTANT TIP: Keep the spooky ideas at a minimum for preschool age children and focus on non-scary Halloween activities for toddlers and preschoolers. Halloween in kindergarten and preschool should be fun! You don’t want to include Halloween ideas preschool that make kids cry! So, use not-so-scary ideas in your art and crafts for Halloween!
1. Have Fun With Pumpkin Face Shaving Cream Painting
Need Halloween preschool crafts ideas or want an alternative to carving pumpkin for Halloween activities for preK?
This is an adorable sensory activity that children of all ages can enjoy!
(And, it might get a little messy, so be sure to grab some disposable paint aprons.)
You’ll need:
- Water
- Shaving cream (plain white, no scent) or whipped cream
- Yellow, orange, and green food coloring
- Paper plate
- Paintbrush
- Small bowls or small paint pallets.
Directions:
- Spread shaving cream or whipped cream in a layer on each paper plate.
- Have kids dip their paintbrush into the food coloring and create a jack-o-lantern face on the shaving cream or whipped cream!
This is a Halloween fun activity that kids will love! Super fun as one of your art activities for Halloween preschool!
2. Grow a Pumpkin in a Pumpkin Preschool Halloween Project
For this Halloween activity, preschoolers decorate a small pumpkin and then grow their own pumpkin vine in the decorated pumpkin.
It’s so much fun for the kids to pick what they’ve grown and a perfect time to grow a pumpkin or gourd!
Definitely add this to your Halloween lesson plans and learning activities!
You’ll need:
- One small pumpkin for each preschooler, top cut out and seeds still intact inside
- Markers, non-toxic paint (white paint or black paint or a Sharpie marker), or pumpkin face stickers / googly eyes
- Potting soil
Directions:
- Have each child decorate their pumpkin.
- Cut a lid off of each pumpkin. (Cut the pumpkin top off around the stem like you would for cleaning out the pumpkins.) Instead of removing the pumpkin seeds, place potting soil directly into the pumpkin (on top of the seeds that are in the pumpkin).
- Water lightly and place in a sunny area. In about a week, you should see your pumpkin vines start to sprout. When they’ve grown a little, plant pumpkins (with vines sticking out) outdoors or in a planter. (Be sure to remove the stickers first if you used them!).
Although this is one of my favorite halloween preschool activities, this isn’t just a great Halloween preschooler project, but makes a fun fall preschool project, Thanksgiving preschool activities, or if you need fall activities for a small group!
3. Play Glow in the Dark Halloween Monster Bowling
Need a game for your fun preschool Halloween activities or a preschoolers Halloween fall festival?
Add glow bowling to your Halloween games! (SUPER cheap and easy Halloween game / DIY Halloween game!)
For bowling preschool ideas for Halloween…
You’ll need:
- Empty water bottles (with the lids)
- Monster sticker faces
- Small glow sticks
- Halloween glow in the dark balls
Directions:
- Decorate the water bottles using monster stickers.
- Activate the glow sticks and add one or two to each water bottle. Screw lid on.
- Let your preschooler line up the water bottles. (If they’re having trouble lining them up in a straight line, you can create a tape line to help them out.)
- Then, turn out the lights and have fun bowling! To give preschoolers a little extra help, you can stand behind the bottles to show which one they should aim for or pick a monster and see if they can bowl that one down or see if they can hit specific colors. (Make sure the glo in dark balls are “charged” before by putting them on a sunny window sill.)
You can also use glow in the dark cups instead for these Halloween kid activities.
This is a fun activity for toddler Halloween or Halloween activities pre K and up for Halloween parties. Definitely add it to your Halloween games for preschoolers!
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It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Lesson Plans and Activities (definitely add this to your Halloween learning fun!)
Halloween Sleepover Activities (FUN for Halloween for preschool ages!)
57 Fun Halloween Movies to Watch with Kids
Halloween Party Ideas and Games
4. Make Halloween Sensory Bin
Sensory bins add fun play learning for preschoolers to work on fine motor skills and practice hand-eye coordination — perfect kids activities for little hands in little bins and easy enough for a preschool theme Halloween DIY activity center.
There are many cool things that you can add to a Halloween theme sensory bin to go with the Halloween season! (It’s a favorite holiday for sensory tools!)
These are perfect for Halloween centers for kindergarten and preschool or Month of October activities for a group — from toddlers to Pre-K to a Halloween activity for kindergarten.
What do you put in a Halloween sensory bin?
- Small plastic bin with lid (make sure they’re deep enough that the items don’t easily spill out, like these)
- Dried black beans (enough to fill the bottom of bin, 1-2 bags)
- Dried white rice, 1 bag
- Orange sugar sprinkles, 1-2 jars (or a Halloween sprinkles mix with different shapes)
- Plastic spiders and insects
- Mini skeletons
- Halloween items like these
- Colorful mini Halloween cups
- Q tips as bones (or grab these)
- Purple, orange, green, black and white pipe cleaners
- Lowercase letters that spell words for the holiday (like bat, Halloween, etc.)
- Different scoopers, tongs, and tweezers (we love this set!)
TIP: Check the dollar store for Halloween play items for sensory activities.
Mix all of the items in the bin and give your child free play with it to explore, use their imagination, engage their senses, practice fine motor skills, and build and create with Halloween theme learning!
Great addition to your preschool center rotation ideas.
ALSO CHECK OUT:
Autumn Sensory Activity for Preschool and Free Fall Printable
5. Cook with Books for Halloween
What’s more fun than reading Halloween children’s books and making theme recipes based on the book?
Fun if you’re looking for educational Halloween activities for preschoolers.
REMEMBER: Cooking, baking, and following a Halloween recipe makes for a great Halloween math activity / Halloween STEM!
Get a complete list of books about Halloween and fun Halloween recipes to go with them!
6. Make Worms in Dirt Halloween Recipe
This is an easy Halloween recipe because you can make everything ahead of time and then have your preschoolers assemble the recipe. (You can even make rebus recipe directions to go with it so they can practice following directions.)
Plus, kids will get a kick out of eating “worms” crawling out of “dirt.”
This is an easiest enough recipe that it makes it great for halloween small group activities for preschoolers.
7. Spider Studies
What would Halloween be without a great book about creepy crawly spiders?
Read about spiders and then make a Halloween spider craft.
Try these spider books for literacy activities and make fun ideas like spider web crafts / Halloween crafts like this after:
There Was An Old Mummy Who Swallowed A Spider
Happy Halloween From The Very Busy Spider
Learn how to make a spider web for preschoolers to go with your favorite Halloween books for young children / fun books for October!
8. Make Fizzy Jack o Lanterns (Erupting Jack O Lanterns)
If you’re looking for Halloween science activities for preschool / Halloween STEM, you definitely need to make a fizzy pumpkin!
It’s not only a cool science project for kids, it looks kinda gross (like a vomiting pumpkin) and kids will love that for the holiday season!
9. Bake Pumpkin Seeds
After you’ve decorated a pumpkin or jack-o-latern, don’t throw out the seeds!
The process of drying the seeds and then using them to make a healthy, crunchy Halloween snack is so much fun for preschooler ideas for Halloween!
(Honestly, kids of all ages will have fun with this Halloween idea! YES! Even older kids!)
There are many different ways to make pumpkin seeds and the recipe link from our kids activities blog has different pumpkin seed recipe flavors!
10. Make Disappearing Ghost Rolls
This Halloween disappearing marshmallow crescent rolls recipe is super fun to do for preschool age kids activities.
There’s even a cute ghost story to go along with the rolls recipe!
Get Hocus Pocus Buns Recipe / Disappearing Rolls with Ghost Story
11. Work on Preschool Cutting Skills with Fun Halloween Printables Activity Packs
Get our free printable Halloween worksheets for practice with cutting, sorting, and coloring!
(See below for the Halloween printable cutting worksheets for preschoolers – they’re free printables! Happy Halloween!)
Free Halloween Activities For Preschoolers: Halloween Cutting Printables
Need some free Halloween preschool activities? Get this fun Halloween preschool worksheets pack to practice preschool cutting skills!
(The free printable cutting practice worksheets are great for Halloween activities for kindergarten, too!)
Click below to get the free printable template for Halloween for easy Halloween activities and free October activities for preschoolers.
Even great for Halloween activities for 1st grade and classroom activities Halloween!
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What are your best Halloween activities? We’d love to hear your favorite Halloween games and activities for preschool and kindergarten Halloween ideas!
