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Halloween Activities & Printables with Googly Eyes

Kids love googly eyes - this is a fact! Googly eyes are not only cute and funny, but they have the ability to bring any boring old thing to life! Plus, they are excellent for practicing fine motor skills!

We like to use googly eyes year-round, but they are especially fun around Halloween time because of all the monsters and spiders and other spooky things you can make with them.

Here is a fun collection of 15 Halloween activities with googly eyes, including hands-on printable activities, easy arts and crafts projects, and out-of-this-world sensory play!

PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

Googly eyes are not only cute and funny Halloween Activities & Printables with Googly Eyes

Create some fun monsters and spiders while practicing fine motor skills, numbers and letters! Just print and let your child stick or glue googly eyes in the white circles.

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CRAFTS

Monster Mobile from Toilet Rolls by Happy Hooligans
Kid Friendly Pumpkin Decorating by Craftulate
I've Got My Eye on You by Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Googly Eye Picture Frame by Artsy Momma
Paper Plate Spiders by I Heart Crafty Things

SENSORY ACTIVITIES

Googly Eye Soup by Fun at Home with Kids
Halloween Ice Ghosts by The Golden Gleam
Glowing Sensory Bag Play by Growing a Jeweled Rose
Monster Ice by Growing a Jeweled Rose
Monsters Inc. Inspired Slime by 123Homeschool4Me
Fluffy Slime by Sow Sprout Play
Monster Play Dough by The Imagination Tree
Sensory Bag with Slimy Eyes by Hands On: As we Grow
Monster Sensory Bottle by My Mundane & Miraculous Life

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Halloween Lacing Cards

Lacing is a great activity for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. Grab an old shoelace and try out one of these free printable Halloween themed lacing cards!

These 5 free Halloween lacing cards include a mummy, a spider web, a bat, Frankenstein, and a jack-o-lantern.

We usually like to use lacing cards by lacing around the outside of the image, but for the mummy and spider web I thought it would be fun to lace across the image as shown in the pictures. However, your child is free to lace in whatever pattern they would like!

Materials needed:

-laminator

-hole puncher

-shoe laces, yarn, ribbon, etc.

Note: For the mummy and spider web we had to use 2 shoelaces since one was not long enough. If you choose to use yarn or ribbon, you can reinforce the ends with tape to form the lacing "needle".

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Free Halloween Printable Pack for Toddlers & PreK

Halloween is one of our favorite times of the year and I like to use this as an opportunity to create some fun learning activities. This Halloween themed printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to develop early learning skills such as counting, number & alphabet recognition, letter sounds, letter cases, size, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills, puzzles and more!

This Halloween themed Pack features 27 hands-on activities, and it is available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:

Literacy Activities:

-Cut & Paste the Missing Letter

-Letter Sound Matching

-Sight Word Matching

-Tracing words

-Letter Sorting

-Rhyming Words

-Which letter does not belong?

Pre-Writing:

-Trace the Circles

-Trace Horizontal Lines

-Trace Vertical Lines

Math Activities:

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Counting 1-5

-Counting 6-10

-Cut & Paste the Correct Number

-Number Matching

-Quantity Matching

-Patterns

-Cut & Paste in Order from Smallest to Biggest

-Sorting by Size

-Shape Matching

Visual Discrimination:

-Matching Halloween items

-Matching Jack-o-lantern faces

-Sorting Halloween items

Scissor Skills:

-Cutting straight lines

-Cutting zig zag lines

-Cutting page in 4 sections

Puzzles:

-Cut & Paste Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

Below is a Sneak Peek:

This Halloween Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling subscribers! (If you're already a subscriber, you can find this pack on the Subscriber's Page)

What can I expect as a Subscriber?:

-You will receive free printables that are not available for download on the website. This includes holiday and seasonal packs, as well as other themed activity packs.

-You will get access to a collection of Board Book Printable Activities and Nursery Rhymes sequencing.

-You will receive 1-2 emails per week with new posts, freebies, sales and additions to the site.

-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.

How do I get my Halloween Pack after subscribing?:

-After confirming your email address, you will receive a Welcome Email which provides the link to the subscriber's page. This subscriber's page is where you can download the Halloween Pack as well as ALL other subscriber freebies.

-Please check your email thoroughly for this email including spam folder, promotions folders, etc. If you still do not see it, please email me at totschooling@gmail.com and I will be happy to send you the link.

-If you're already a subscriber, check a recent newsletter and scroll to the bottom. There will be a link to the Subscriber's Page.

Halloween Activities & Printables with Googly Eyes

We like to use googly eyes year-round, but they are especially fun around Halloween time because of all the monsters and spiders and other spooky things you can make with them.

Here is a fun collection of 15 Halloween activities with googly eyes, including hands-on printable activities, easy arts and crafts projects, and out-of-this-world sensory play!

PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

Create some fun monsters and spiders while practicing fine motor skills, numbers and letters! Just print and let your child stick or glue googly eyes in the white circles.

Click here to Download your Free Googly Eyes Printables

Click Here to browse through ALL of our Halloween printables!

CRAFTS

SENSORY ACTIVITIES

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Halloween Lacing Cards

These 5 free Halloween lacing cards include a mummy, a spider web, a bat, Frankenstein, and a jack-o-lantern.

Materials needed:

-laminator

-hole puncher

-shoe laces, yarn, ribbon, etc.

Note: For the mummy and spider web we had to use 2 shoelaces since one was not long enough. If you choose to use yarn or ribbon, you can reinforce the ends with tape to form the lacing "needle".

Click here to download your free Halloween Lacing Cards

Click Here to browse through D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain
ALL of our Halloween printables, or click the image below:

D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain

For more fun lacing ideas and printables, check out the following featured posts!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing Activity for Preschoolers by From ABCs to ACTs

Toddler Leaf Sewing Craft by My Little 3 and Me

Free Halloween Printable Pack for Toddlers & PreK

This Halloween themed Pack features 27 hands-on activities, and it is available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:

Literacy Activities:

-Cut & Paste the Missing Letter

-Letter Sound Matching

-Sight Word Matching

-Tracing words

-Letter Sorting

-Rhyming Words

-Which letter does not belong?

Pre-Writing:

-Trace the Circles

-Trace Horizontal Lines

-Trace Vertical Lines

Math Activities:

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Counting 1-5

-Counting 6-10

-Cut & Paste the Correct Number

-Number Matching

-Quantity Matching

-Patterns

-Cut & Paste in Order from Smallest to Biggest

-Sorting by Size

-Shape Matching

Visual Discrimination:

-Matching Halloween items

-Matching Jack-o-lantern faces

-Sorting Halloween items

Scissor Skills:

-Cutting straight lines

-Cutting zig zag lines

-Cutting page in 4 sections

Puzzles:

-Cut & Paste Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

Below is a Sneak Peek:

This Halloween Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling subscribers! (If you're already a subscriber, you can find this pack on the Subscriber's Page)

What can I expect as a Subscriber?:

-You will receive free printables that are not available for download on the website. This includes holiday and seasonal packs, as well as other themed activity packs.

-You will get access to a collection of Board Book Printable Activities and Nursery Rhymes sequencing.

-You will receive 1-2 emails per week with new posts, freebies, sales and additions to the site.

-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.

How do I get my Halloween Pack after subscribing?:

-If you're already a subscriber, check a recent newsletter and scroll to the bottom. There will be a link to the Subscriber's Page.

Haunted House Letter Sounds Matching

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year and I especially enjoy coming up with fun ideas for free printable activities. Today I am sharing a Haunted House full of not-so-spooky creatures that get matched up to their beginning letter sounds.

This Haunted House letter sounds activity includes 2 haunted houses, one with upper case and one with lower case letters, and a sheet of 11 Halloween creatures that live inside the house.

Match each creature to its beginning letter sound on the haunted house. This can be done as a cut & paste activity or as a file folder game.

Creatures include: spider, cat, bat, pirate, witch, ghost, jack-o-lantern, vampire, owl, zombie and mummy!

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Five Little Pumpkins Printable Activity

Five Little Pumpkins is our favorite nursery rhyme in the Fall and around Halloween. It's a great way to introduce ordinal numbers and counting with a fun pumpkin theme. Use this free printable activity to help your child follow along with the rhyme!

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Five Little Pumpkins is a playful rhyme that is great for learning ordinal numbers and counting. You can use this FREE printable activity with your toddler or preschooler in 2 ways:

laminate & use velcro dots for a reusable counting activity

cut & paste activity for scissor skill and fine motor practice

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Pumpkin Faces Visual Discrimination Matching Activity

This adorable jack-o-lantern matching game is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to practice visual discrimination skills in the Fall and around Halloween.

lantern matching game is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to practice visual discrimi Pumpkin Faces Visual Discrimination Matching Activity

There are several different ways for kids to do this activity. Below are some ideas:

File Folder Game. Print the two sheets, then laminate them. Cut out the pieces from the second page. Have your child place the matching pieces on top of each image on the first page.
Cut & Paste Activity. Print the two sheet, but don't laminate. Have your child cut out the pieces on the second page, and glue directly on top of the matching images on the first page.
Memory Game. Print 2 copies of the cards, cut them all out, put them face down, and play a classic memory game.

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This activity is also part of our Halloween Learning Pack, available FREE to all email subscribers.

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Halloween Color by Number

My kids always get excited for Halloween way before the day is even close. I like to give them fun, no-prep worksheets like these, where they can practice number recognition, color words and fine motor skills while coloring fun pictures of pumpkins, witches, Frankenstein and bats.

These FREE Halloween Color by Number sheets are great for preschool and kindergarten kids to color on their own.

For preschoolers or children who can't read color words, I recommend that you color the crayons at the top of the page before giving it to the child so that they know which colors to use.

There are 4 pages included in this set:

Pumpkin/jack-o-lantern
Witch
Frankenstein
Bats

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Halloween Tracing Worksheets

Kids will love to trace and color these fun Halloween themed pictures and words. Great for fine motor skills and handwriting practice.

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These FREE Halloween Picture & Word Tracing sheets are great for preschool and kindergarten kids. They come in two versions, one with lowercase letters and one with uppercase letters.

Kids will love to trace pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, bats, spiders, webs, ghosts and a witch's hat, along with the words at the bottom.

Materials:

Printer
Paper
Laminator (optional)
Dry erase markers (optional)
Sheet protectors (optional)

Print the sheets you would like to use. To make them reusable, I suggest either laminating them or placing them in sheet protectors, and giving kids dry-erase markers to use.

More Picture & Word Tracing Sheets:

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Halloween Fun Pack for Tots & Preschoolers

Preschool kids will enjoy incorporating these math and literacy activities into their daily lessons. They'll focus on visual discrimination, fine motor skills, counting, beginning sounds, and more!

Halloween Fun Pack

This pack of Halloween-themed activity pages is the perfect addition to your October preschool lessons. Tots and preschoolers will work on various skills throughout each of these five activities. There is no prep-work involved in setting this activity up. Just print out each of the pages, and your little ones are good to go.

What's Included?

In this fun pack, young learners will enjoy five Halloween-themed activities. Each activity will focus on a different skill. Together, these activities will make great learning centers for your October learning time.

BEGINNING SOUNDS:

Cut out each of the images on the bottom. Have your little ones say the name of the costume each child is wearing. Focus on the beginning sound of each one. Glue each image on the correct beginning letter.

COUNTING PRACTICE:

Cut out each of the images at the bottom. Have students count the costumed children on each piece, and then glue the set on the correct number.

GRAPHING:

Cut out the images at the bottom of the page. Have students glue the pieces onto the graph. Count the kids in each column and fill in the blanks on the right side of the page.

LETTER HUNT:

Use a dot marker, crayons, or counters to identify each letter C and c on the letter grid.

MATCHING:

Have students draw a line matching the two kids wearing similar costumes. The kids don't match exactly - different colored skin or hair or costume pieces - but the dress-up theme is the same - superhero, bug, fairy, etc. This will help kids hone their visual discrimination skills.

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This post was contributed by:

Tara from Homeschool Preschool
Tara is wife to Matt and homeschool momma of three. She has successfully homeschooled her oldest two, and is currently homeschooling her youngest. Though her children are older, she is always looking for an opportunity to create educational activities and content for young learners. She blogs about homeschooling, preschool activities, and other educational topics at Homeschool Preschool.

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Halloween BINGO Game

Kids will enjoy getting ready for Halloween with this fun Free printable BINGO game. Great to use in the classroom or at home!

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This FREE printable Halloween BINGO Game includes 8 full-size boards and a sheet that can be used to make calling cards.

Materials Needed:

Printer
Paper
Laminator or Sheet Protectors (optional)
Bingo/Dot Markers (optional)
Counters or Cubes (optional)

This Halloween BINGO game is perfect to play with kids in small groups of 8 or less. A teacher or adult can use the calling sheet to call out each of the Halloween characters, or kids can take turns drawing from a pile of calling cards.

Kids can use Bingo or Dot Markers, or simply cover each space with a counter. Before starting, make sure they cover the free space in the middle. When somebody covers 5 spaces in a row, they call out "BINGO!" Keep playing until all kids get a BINGO.

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Room on the Broom Printables for PreK & K

Room on the Broom is our favorite Halloween book. I created this free pack of printables for preschool and kindergarten kids to work on story comprehension, sequencing, letter sounds and more!

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Room on the Broom is a delightful story about the adventures of a friendly witch and the animals she travels with. Its rich language and rhyming makes it a great book for pre-K, kindergarten and higher grades to read around Halloween.

This set of FREE no-prep printables includes the following activities. Some pages include black & white versions.

story sequencing
cut & paste letter sounds
matching letter sounds
sorting things from the story
tracing & coloring page

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Free Halloween I Spy Printable

Halloween is almost here! Print this fun, non-scary, I-spy Halloween themed activity and use it in two ways!

This I-spy with my "monster" eye printable is designed with young kids in mind- non-scary and not too complicated. Simply identify the spiders, spider webs, pumpkins, ghosts and ghost houses. Count them all and write the number in the block above the specific picture!

There are 2 ways one could use this fun activity:

As a worksheet-type of activity where the child simply counts and writes on the sheet (you can laminate it or use a dry-erase pocket for multiple use). Tip: Young children will need to cross out each picture counted to keep track of which pictures he/she counted since it is spread out. This is a good option for more than one child like in a class situation. It is also travel-friendly! Pop it onto a tray/cookie sheet and your child can use it in the car.
As a sensory bin activity. Laminate the sheet first. Cut the bottom part of the printable off, just above the blocks. Then, cut each picture out. Add any sensory bin filler to a container (we used cotton wool) and hide the pictures. The child then finds the pictures, counts them and writes the numbers in the blocks! This method is usually more enjoyable because of the sensory element. Young children have more control over the counting because the pictures can be placed next to each other and moved while counting, which makes counting accurately easier.

I-spy activities are not only fun but develop important skills too! Finding a specific picture uses visual perception skills. Counting the pictures works on counting skills and writing the number down requires numerical knowledge, pencil grip etc. Vocabulary and language are developed by speaking about the pictures, counting it and asking inference questions.

One can extend the activity for older children by asking questions like: "Which picture did you see most?", "Is there more or less ghosts than ghost houses?", "Will each spider have a spider web?" etc. Lots of educational opportunity while having fun!

A not too scary I-spy activity, perfect for Halloween month and perfect for your young kiddos to enjoy!

Click Here to Download your FREE Halloween I Spy

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Nadia from Teach Me Mommy
Nadia is a South African mommy of two and a therapist at a elementary remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities with the aim to teach. You can follow along on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.

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