🎃Hands-On Halloween Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten!
Spooky-Fun Centers for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade
You can feel the energy shift the minute October hits—costumes, candy, and class parties take over every conversation. And while your students are buzzing with excitement, you’re probably wondering…
“How am I going to keep them learning through all this?”
I remember one October when my own kids were bouncing with excitement, and I knew I needed activities that felt like play, but still built real reading and math skills.
That’s exactly why I created these low-prep Halloween Math & Literacy Centers—to help teachers and parents keep learning hands-on, engaging, and stress-free all month long.
🧺What’s Included:
✅ 15 hands-on math, literacy, and fine motor centers
✅ Printable activities with spooky, seasonal themes
✅ Low-prep games perfect for centers, small groups, or morning tubs
✏️Literacy Centers to Build Early Reading Skills
Get kids giggling while they practice rhyming and CVC word families with Monster Rhyming Builders! Kids match silly monster arms and legs to the rhyming body—building phonemic awareness through play.
With 20 monster word families, this center is great for independent practice or small groups. My kids love seeing how many silly monsters they can build without even realizing how much they’re learning.
Turn word work into a spooky sorting game with Spooky Word Family Match! Kids read CVC word ghosts and sort them into haunted houses by word family like -at or -ug.
With six mats and 36 ghost word cards, this center makes phonics practice fun for Pre-K and Kindergarten. My kids love pretending the haunted houses “catch” the right ghosts!
Make CVC word practice hands-on with Pumpkin Patch Mystery Words! Kids use picture sound clues to build the mystery word and clip the match—turning phonics into a fall-themed decoding game.
With 20 mystery word cards, this SoR-aligned center helps kids segment and blend sounds during October literacy centers.
Kids pick pumpkin word cards, read them, and sort into a harvest basket for real words or a fall sack for nonsense words with Pumpkin Patch Real & Nonsense Word Sort.
With two word sets, this center works for Kindergarten and 1st grade. My kids love guessing if the pumpkin word is real or silly—it makes decoding feel like a game.
Make CVC word practice feel like play with Halloween Roll, Read, & Cover! Kids roll the dice, read the matching word, and cover it with a bingo chip or pompom—building phonics fluency while having fun.
With 12 pages of word cards, this low-prep game is great for literacy centers or small groups in October.
➕Math Centers to Build Early Number Sense
Make counting to 20 feel like play with Ghost Ten Frame Counting! Kids use erasers or clothespins to fill spooky ten and twenty frames with ghosts, tally marks, or Halloween objects.
With three sets to choose from, this center builds counting and number sense in small groups or independent work.
Kids use math cubes to measure spooky objects like ghosts, bats, and pumpkins with Halloween Measuring. Then they cover the correct number on each card.
It’s a fun way to build non-standard measurement skills in October math centers or small groups.
Bring fall math practice to life with Pumpkin Addition! Kids use seeds, chips, or erasers to build and solve simple addition problems—making math feel like play. With 20 addition cards and an editable template, this center builds addition fluency in math tubs or small groups.
✂️ Fine Motor Fun
Get little hands working with Witchy Fine Motor Cupcakes! Kids cut or hole punch spooky sprinkles to decorate cupcakes—building scissor skills and pre-writing strength.
With 20 cupcake cards, this fine motor center is perfect for October mornings or small groups.
🍂 And That’s Just the Beginning!
Here’s a peek at even more spooky-fun centers included in the bundle:
You’ll also get even more hands-on centers to keep your students learning and smiling all month long:
🧺 Wondering How to Use These Centers?
We love setting these up in baskets or bins for easy morning tubs, independent centers, or small group warm-ups because they’re low-prep, making it easy to grab what I need for the day without feeling overwhelmed.
My kids love rotating through the different activities, and it keeps them busy and learning—even when Halloween excitement is at an all-time high.
👻 Want to Try a Free Halloween Math Center?
Looking for a quick, hands-on Halloween math activity? Grab my Free Ghost Counting Center—a playful way to build number recognition and one-to-one correspondence with your PreK, Kindergarten, or 1st-grade students.
Kids love placing cotton ball ghosts onto each spooky card to match the number shown. It’s a low-prep, fun way to bring some Halloween spirit to your math centers or morning tubs.
What’s Included:
- ✅ 10 Ghost Cards numbered 1–10
- ✅ Perfect for counting practice with cotton ball ghosts
- ✅ Builds number recognition and one-to-one correspondence
💬 What Teachers and Parents Are Saying:
“My students loved the monster and pumpkin activities! They were so engaged and stayed on task the whole time.”
– Kindergarten Teacher
“These centers made my October planning so much easier. Everything was ready to go, and my kinders had a blast!”
– First-Year Teacher
🎃 Ready to Make Your October Easy and Fun?
Grab your Halloween Math & Literacy Centers for Kindergarten and fill your classroom with hands-on learning your students will love all month long!
🍁 Looking Ahead?
Once your Halloween centers wrap up, keep the learning going with my Fall Math & Literacy Centers Bundle—perfect for November and beyond!