Halloween is just around the corner! There are so many awesome Halloween books to get your family excited for the holiday. In addition to these awesome stories, check out some of the best Halloween fun and games to keep your kids learning during the spooky season! These can be adapted to your child’s skill level, so kids of all ages can join in the fun!

Feed the Ghost – This is adapted from the blog Toddler Approved. The author cut a large white ghost out of paper and cut a hole for the mouth. She then cut several circles out of different colored papers. For her kids, she wrote the letters of the alphabet on the circles and spread them around the floor. When she called out a letter, the kids had to find them and “feed” them to the ghost. You could also use this game with sight words or math problems (write down the solution and call out the problem, or vice versa). To make this more entertaining and challenging for older kids, you could have them ball up the circles and try to throw them through the ghost’s mouth.

Fall Tic Tac Toe – This is an easy game to set up for kids to play throughout the fall season. Make an oversized tic-tac-toe grid on a table or the floor out of tape (I used pipe cleaners). Using different colored pumpkins, gourds, apples, or small pumpkins marked with X or O, have kids play tic tac toe. You could also make this a learning activity for whatever skills your kids are working on. Kids have to answer questions correctly to win pumpkins or apples to add to the board. If your kids are different ages, you can ask them appropriate questions for their own skill levels.

Practice gross motor skills with these Halloween games!

Spider Web Walk – The blog No Time for Flashcards created a fun gross motor activity game to work on balance and problem solving skills. She mapped out a spider web in masking tape on the floor and placed small plastic spiders around it. She created a start and finish line and had her son stay balanced on the tape lines, while moving from start to finish and collecting the spiders. When this became too easy for him, she added paper ghosts along the trail as obstacles. While he could step over the ghosts, he was out if he touched one.

This could be a fun game for kids and adults alike! You could add additional obstacles throughout the course, or use paper spiders with sight words or letters on them which kids need to call out before they can pick them up. Have kids use different methods to get from start to finish, such as hopping on one foot or walking backwards. You could also make it a competition to see who can make it from start to finish the fastest.

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Halloween Bowling – There are many ways to make a simple Halloween themed bowling game with items you may have around. Empty 2 liter bottles stuffed with toilet paper can have ghost faces drawn on them. Toilet paper rolls can have felt faces attached and can be stacked on top of each other to create a pyramid. Orange or green plastic cups can be decorated to look like pumpkins or Frankenstein’s monster and stacked. Once you have a tower or pins set up, you can use a small pumpkin to knock them down. See who can get the most points! This is a great way to expel some energy and work on gross motor skills while having fun that the whole family can take part in!

There are many ways to turn Halloween fun into learning opportunities! What skills are your kids working on that these games could be used for?

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