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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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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