Halloween Themed Unit Preschool and Kindergarten

Plan your Halloween season with exciting crafts and activities kids will love. Provide a variety of games, crafts and stories to support hands-on fun and learning in preschool and kindergarten.

Are you excited to start Halloween activities in your home or preschool? Little trick-or-treaters are! Kids can’t wait to dress up in silly or scary costumes, play games, and shout ‘trick-or-treat’ at your door!

As the big event approaches, teachers and parents want to fill their calendars with fun activities that keep kids active and learning.

But planning can be overwhelming! This Halloween unit can help with that.

Here you’ll find ready made ideas for guiding preschoolers through this busy season with:

circle time
gross motor play
science
art
language

Plan a full week (or more!) with the help of the A.B.C.’s (Activities – Books – Crafts).

Halloween preschool lesson plan

This Halloween unit is based on the ABC Method we designed to help make program planning easy and enjoyable.

The activities, books and crafts include science, math, literacy, art and more, to provide a well-rounded Halloween-themed program.

Grab this made-for-you free printable Halloween weekly planner to jumpstart your Halloween theme. It’s filled with a week of options to add to your everyday play in preschool or kindergarten.

The activities in the planner are described in detail below, along with more ideas for your Halloween theme.

A = Activities

1. Small group

Lighted Pumpkin Carving Activity

Pumpkin Math Sensory Bin

Halloween Math Games Using Beverage Stickers

Pumpkin Patch Tic-Tac-Toe

2. Circle time

Counting Ghosts on the Felt Board

Halloween Fingerplay

Halloween Puppet Show

Pumpkin Song (Tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

Pumpkin pumpkin big and round (extend arms, touch hands together to make a circle)

Pumpkin growing on the ground (crouch low to the ground, wrap arms around knees)

With your stem and leaves of green, Fun for us on Halloween (slowly stand, extend arms to form a circle)

Pumpkin pumpkin big and round, pumpkin growing on the ground (slowly return to crouching position, rest arms on the ground)

2. Games

Scavenger Hunt

Find hidden ghost and pumpkin cardboard cut-outs.

Pumpkin Roll and Wash

Roll small pumpkins down an inclined plane and into a tub of soapy water.

Witches Brew

Stir foods and drinks into a large cauldron or pot. Give spooky directions as you add each item: swamp water (orange juice), spider web (fizzy water), lizard toes (strawberries), fish scales (lemon or lime slices).

Ghost Parachute

Spread a white sheet on the floor. Children gather in a circle around the sheet, with space between each child. Kids bend down and grasp the edge of the sheet with two hands. Everyone stands up and gently begins to raise and lower hands in unison, to flap the sheet up and down.
Give simple directions: bounce the sheet quickly, slowly. Walk in a circle holding the sheet.

Monster Freeze

Play a version of the popular freeze game using monsters, ghosts or witches as your theme. Kids move around the room as Halloween characters while Halloween music plays. Kids can depict the characters in their movements: stomp like a monster, fly on a broom, swoop like a ghost. Kids then freeze in place when the music stops. Ask kids to make their best monster face, witch cackle, or ghost ‘Boo!’ when they freeze.