The Best Fun & Easy Halloween Activities for Preschool

Engage your students in learning with these hands-on and fun Halloween activities for preschoolers. From fine motor skills activities, crafts, and simple Halloween science activities, you will find different ways to incorporate your favorite holiday into your fall and October lesson plans. Explore exciting Halloween themes like spiders, monsters, and pumpkins and activities that are great for small groups, whole class, or individual practice.

Spider Activities for Kids

Simple Halloween spider activities for preschoolers are perfect for the spooky season. The photo collage shows a variety of activities with little spiders from a Halloween paper plate craft with plastic spiders, a spider-themed Halloween craft, a spider name activity printed on white paper and colored with crayons, playdough activities, fine motor activities, and math activities.

The Best Monster Activities for Kids

monster activities are a great way to engage kids for the Halloween season. The collage of images shows a variety of monster activities including alphabet activities with lowercase letters, playdough with googly eyes, Halloween math and number recognition activities, and other fun Halloween activities and crafts.

Monster Books for Kids

Some of my favorite Halloween books are monster books for preschoolers. They are perfect the Halloween season

Pumpkin Science Investigations

pumpkin science ideas. The image shows a large pumpkin that is cut in half to show the seeds along with mini pumpkins of different colors and support different ways of investigating and learning about pumpkins.

Engaging Pumpkin Life-Cycle Activities for Preschoolers

pumpkin life cycle for Halloween lesson plans. One image shows a child planting pumpkin seeds in small containers. The bottom picture show a rotting pumpkin in a pumpkin patch.

Monster-Themed Math Activities

monster color and math activities for preschoolers. A cute and engaging Halloween math activity for your preschool Halloween theme

A fall themed invitation to play

playdough activities for fall. A fall themed playdough tray is shown. The tray includes yellow playdough, burlap ribbon, toothpicks, craft sticks, pom poms and buttons.

Fun Little Bat Halloween Game

Free printable little bat Halloween game for preschoolers that is used as a classroom game or Halloween party activity.

Fine Motor Activities for Fall

fall fine motor activities to give little hands a workout. The picture shows mini pumpkins, plastic bug catcher tongs, and a black plastic cauldron used for fun fine motor activities and sensory play..

Spider Web Art Activities

Spider web art activities and simple craft ideas for kids. The Easy Halloween crafts pictured include a spider web paint roller, a spider web craft made with a paper plate and spider rings, and a spooky Halloween spider name activity printed on white paper and painted with watercolor paints.

Spider Counting Book

spider counting books for kids in your kindergarten or preschool classroom. The books combine math and literacy activities. Three images of the free Halloween spider counting emergent reader are shown. The cover has a super simple and cute spider. A page with three spiders is shown, and a counting page that is perfect for one-to-one correspondence is shown.

Spider Playdough Activities

spider playdough activities. A spider invitation to play or playdough tray is shown. There is a ball of black playdough in the tray, along with plastic toy spiders, springs, pipe cleaners, and colorful googly eyes.

Easy Spider Craft for Preschoolers

Spider craft for preschoolers - a paper craft is shown with a hole punch and scissors.

Easy Fall Crafts for Preschoolers

Easy fall crafts for preschoolers - apple, pumpkin, fall leaf, and scarecrow crafts.

Halloween Activities in the Store

Your students will love these hands-on Halloween activities from the Early Learning Ideas store. From simple craft activities, scientific explorations, math & literacy activities, and fun activities to build fine motor skills, you’ll find something for everyone. Explore different themes like spiders, pumpkins, and monsters with these exciting Halloween activities for your little learners.

Pumpkin Investigation Activities - simple science for preschool and kindergarten
Name Craft - Pumpkin
halloween pumpkins fine motor craft activities for kids
Halloween animals fine motor crafts includes a spider craft, bat craft, and an owl craft
Hole Punch Task Cards - Halloween
Cutting Puzzles - Halloween
Fall Name Art

Purchase Halloween Activities on TPT

Do you prefer to shop on Teacher Pay Teachers? You can also purchase my fun and easy Halloween activities in my TPT store. You and your kids will have so much fun adding a little bit of Halloween fun to your learning adventures.