Animals are a safe topic to study during the Halloween season as they provide a non-scary and reality-focused approach to a holiday otherwise filled with things that aren't real and at times very frightening.

These Halloween Animal Activities for Kids with FREE Printables have been created for and tested on Sunshine who scares easily and often struggles during this time of year. She absolutely loves them!

Our Halloween animal activities for kids are perfect for children in Montessori preschool and early elementary classrooms and are designed to be flexible to meet the needs of all students in the classroom.

Halloween Animal Activities for Kids with FREE Printables

Halloween Animals Do-a-dot First Letter Sound Pages

This is the perfect activity to practice fine motor skills while having a lot of fun with tweezing Halloween themed manipulatives. 

Here we're using the S is for Spider printable. Kiddos tweeze the mini spiders and place them on the white dots on the S.

The spider is not the only animal option provided. There are many Halloween animal do-a-dot pages to choose from.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Halloween Animals Nomenclature Cards

Sunshine LOVES animals. She will choose learning about animals over pretend scary creatures any day. 

These nomenclature cards are fabulous as they focus on Halloween related animals and put them all together in one activity to learn about.

Kids can either use these cards as nomenclature card work, or as matching cards, or as a memory game. 

Depending on your animal collection, you could also match up animal figures!

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

My Book of Halloween Animals

Sunshine loves to write and draw on her terms. This activity provides a great way for her to practice writing and spelling skills with a fun Halloween theme she enjoys.

There are multiple options in how this activity is created and used based on the needs of your students. Sunshine has moved past tracing and is ready to draw and color her own animals. 

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Cats Grammar Prepositions Activity

This activity is designed for children who are ready to learn about prepositions in the grammar curriculum and are reading well.

There are multiple options on how to present and use the activity resources.  

If you have a child who does not write yet but can read, or be read aloud to, you may only choose to use the picture and sentence cards, matching them up.

If you have a child who loves writing and is ready for more steps in an activity, pictures and sentences can be matched up and then written on the writing strips provided.

For kids who are even more advanced with their grammar work, you may only want to provided the writing strips and have them invent sentences on their own based on the pictures.

The sky really is the limit here on how these printables can be used.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Counting Crows Activity for Kids

Like the activity above, this activity can be used in many ways. For the purposes of this presentation, a child will match up the picture card, number card, and word card, displaying the correct number of buttons.

If the child is ready for more complex work, I would include 55 buttons instead of just ten, so that all cards could be laid out at once.

Word cards can be removed for a child who's not reading yet. If picture cards are too difficult to count, one can use just number and word cards with a different Halloween manipulative.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Bats Graphing Activity

Graphing activities seem to be all the rage right now! This one is perfect for Halloween and so simple to set up.

Kids roll the dice and count the dots to find out how many bats are actually seen. They then mark the correct number of spaces using a bat stamp to reflect the number they rolled.

I love that this activity focuses on adding and creating a graph!

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Wolf Pattern Activity

When we think about all of the howling associated with Halloween, wolves are the perfect animal to study.

In this activity children complete the pattern using the images provided.

Instead of focusing on scary aspects of a wolf, all images are very friendly.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Rats Greater Than/Less Than Clip Cards

Rats are very much an animal related to Halloween in many ways. 

These greater than/less than clip cards with clothespins to mark answers are the perfect way to practice counting and comparing numbers! 

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Halloween Living and Nonliving Sort

Halloween is a great time of year to study the difference between living and nonliving things. 

This activity provides a very festive way of doing so and includes fabulous true-to-life images for children to sort.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Halloween Animals Who Am I? Cards

When my older kids were in elementary school grades, they LOVED Who Am I? cards, especially if they are animal related.

We couldn't resist adding Halloween Animal Who Am I? cards to this set of activities. They're a great way to practice animal identification!

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

Halloween Animals Predator and Prey Match Up Cards

It's always fun to go beyond learning about an animal's name or classification. What does it eat? What eats it? These are questions children like to know.

In this activity kids sort out predator and prey pairs. Each pair is numbered as a control.

Source: The printable for this activity comes from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack.

I'm excited to save my favorite activity for last!

In the Montessori-inspired Halloween Animals Printable Pack there are a few owl nomenclature cards. 

We've used them for years and all have loved them.

Today I'm excited to release an extended version of this activity that includes description cards as well!

Owl Picture and Description Cards

Whether you have Harry Potter fans in your classroom, or kids that just like owls, these picture and description cards are sure to be a hit!

I love that they can be used for Halloween or anything Harry Potter related, but also as a fantastic bird study all year long.

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Halloween Beginning Language Activities for Kids with Free Printables

Non-scary Halloween language activities are the perfect addition to shelves during the fall season, especially when you can enjoy beginning, intermediate, and advanced language printables in one resource!

This post shows beginning language/CVC word activities. 

Intermediate and advanced language printables include the same activities, just with words that contain consonant blends, phonograms and long vowel sounds.

We hope you enjoy these Halloween Beginning Language Activities for Kids with Free Printables!

Halloween Language Activities For Kids with Free Printables

Halloween Beginning Language First Letter Sound Clip Cards

Our kids and co-op friends love breaking down words into individual sounds. This activity focuses on the first letter sound of each CVC word included.

Halloween provides the perfect opportunity to dress up work with fun manipulatives to celebrate the season.

Children take a spider and place it on the correct first letter, as shown in the picture.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle. 

Halloween Beginning Language Vowel Sounds Clip Cards

Once our kids and co-op friends have mastered first letter sounds for each CVC word, we move on to the vowel sounds in each word.

Kids use flies to mark their answer on the clip card.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle. 

Halloween Beginning Language Ending Sound Clip Cards

Once kids have successfully completed work on beginning consonant sounds and middle vowel sounds, we introduce the ending sound clip cards. 

Kids use cats to mark their answer on the clip cards. (I found these mini cat figures years ago at Pier 1 Imports in a table scatter collection.)

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle.

Halloween Beginning Language CVC Clip Cards

After completing all of the sound work included in the Halloween language bundle, we introduce these CVC word cards to our kids and co-op friends.

I love watching their confidence soar as they realize they can now read simple CVC words by putting all the sounds together. 

For this activity I've chosen to use Halloween colored clothespins to mark answers, but anything you have on hand would work.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle.

Halloween Beginning Language Moveable Alphabet Cards

After observing that a child has confidence in their letter sounds, we introduce the Halloween language moveable alphabet activity.

Depending on the child's abilities, we may use control cards or cards with only lines to ensure that the child feels success.

When printed as is, these cards work beautifully with our Kid Advance Small Moveable Alphabet. 

If printed smaller, these cards work great for writing and tracing purposes.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle.

Halloween Beginning Language CVC Word Writing Cards

If you are looking for writing cards without lines, this next activity is perfect! Kids use a whiteboard erasable marker and write the word on the laminated card provided.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle.

Halloween Beginning Language Picture and Word Match Up Cards

The last activity on our Halloween beginning language shelves is a picture and word matching activity. Kids can use this as a memory game or just simply match pictures to words.

Source: The printables for this activity is from our Montessori-inspired Halloween Language Bundle.

Halloween Language Nomenclature Cards

We have created nomenclature cards to go along with all of our Halloween language printables! 

These can be used as simple nomenclature cards, in a memory game, or as controls for other activities.

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FREE Montessori Winter Grammar Verbs Sentence Printables

The winter season is here. Winter weather means winter activities, which means fabulous opportunities to practice grammar!

And we all know the best way to study grammar with kids is the Montessori way!

I am so excited to share our FREE Montessori Winter Grammar Verbs Sentence Printables. We have used them several times in so many different ways. 

I love the true-to-life images that are included. No matter where you live, you can feel winter through the pictures in the activity.

Montessori Winter Grammar Verbs Sentence Activities

You may be wondering how exactly these printables are used. 

Here I'll show you how we've used them, but that doesn't mean that this is the only way they can be used. The sky is the limit!

How to use the Montessori Winter Grammar Verbs Sentence Printables with Elementary Learners

When I place this activity on our shelves, I place all of the verb picture cards in a container and lay the Montessori verb sentence template I've chosen to use in front of them.

Students select one verb card and write a sentence following the Montessori verb template provided. There are lines under each grammar symbol for words to be written.

Sometimes students like to write sentences in their notebook instead.

There are a few grammar verb sentence templates to choose from, depending on what grammar concepts have been introduced and how comfortable kids are using them.

I love that the activity grows with the child as more grammar symbols are introduced. I also love the variety of verb cards. There are so many sentences to be written!

How to Use Montessori Winter Grammar Verbs Sentences with Preschoolers

If you're wondering if this printable will work for younger students as well, I'm here to tell you it does! It's so easy to simplify.

I have so many plans on how to use it with Sunshine over the winter.

First, I will use the picture cards like nomenclature cards so she can learn the vocabulary.

Once Sunshine understands the vocabulary and can read the words, then I'll introduce the concept of a verb.

After Sunshine understands that a verb is an action word, I'll introduce the concept of an adverb.

We'll then practice pairing verbs with adverbs.

Sunshine's writing skills aren't one of her strengths, so we'll most likely do the exercise verbally.

No matter what way you present the verbs, they're a super fun winter themed grammar activity that kids will enjoy!

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