Need some quick and easy Halloween math activities for preschoolers or kindergarteners?

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Below you will find 7 hands-on and engaging activities that are easy to set up quickly in your classroom while maximizing learning for your preschool or kindergarten students!

Don’t forget to read to the end for a geometry pumpkin freebie!

7 Halloween Math Activities

7 easy and engaging Halloween math activities with pictures of measuring pumpkins with math cubes, a plastic baggie with orange paint and the number 5 traced in it, and 2 pipe cleaners showing color patterns.

1. Measuring and Sorting Pumpkins

Pumpkins come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. That’s part of what makes them so fun! Have kids measure their height by building towers with math cubes that are the same height.

Measure their width by linking math links around the widest part of the pumpkin and count how many links were used. Or use a piece of string to wrap around and mark.

When you are done with measuring, organize the pumpkins from biggest to smallest or widest to thinnest.

You can also have students point out other attributes of the pumpkins as well, such as the differences or similarities in color or how bumpy they are.

2. Halloween Counting with Dough

This one is so simple! All you need is dough, dice (1 or 2 based on the abilities of your kids), and fun seasonal objects to count with.

These objects could be anything from pumpkin seeds to mini-erasers. You could even use orange playdough and dried black beans.

Roll the dice and then place that many objects on the dough for a fun sensory and math experience!

3. Finger Painting Numbers in Baggies

I love this activity because it feels like it should be super messy but it is not!

Fill several baggies with orange paint. Place them either on a cheap black tablecloth or on top of a sheet of black paper. You may want to consider taping down the tablecloth or the paper.

Then, have students practice drawing numbers with their fingers by pressing down on the bag.

4. Halloween Patterns with Bracelets

Making Halloween bracelets is a fun way for students to work on their fine motor skills while having fun and learning!

Use pipe cleaners and festive Halloween beads! You can find ones with cute Halloween-themed objects or simply use colors often associated with Halloween (black, orange, purple, green).

Have students create a pattern as they make a bracelet! This would make something fun to send home after a Halloween party.

Alternatively, find any Halloween-themed objects you can and have students make patterns with them.

Other suggestions of items you can use to make patterns are:

Halloween mini-erasers
Pumpkin seeds
Black beans
Corn kernels
Plastic spiders
Anything else you have that you think will work!

Instead of threading these objects onto a bracelet, you can have kids line them up in different patterns.

5. Halloween Math Activities Sensory Bin

Sensory bins are always a favorite among students!

For a simple base, fill it with black beans. Add little Halloween creatures, mini erasers or other Halloween objects.

Place 6 small jack-o’-lantern buckets (cauldrons would work, too) at one end and place a number card next to each one. Students roll a dice that many objects into the jack-o’-lanterns.

Students can also simply count out the number of scoops they place in the buckets.

6. Fall Math Links and Number Cards

Math links are a fun challenge for young kids who are still working on developing their fine motor skills!

Hole punch the cards and have students count out and link that many chains to the card.

Don’t have math links? Mix and match the cards with the numerals to the cards with the pictures demonstrating each number!

Click on the picture to find out more!

Title says Fall Counting with Linking Chains. There are number cards with numerals in pumpkins next to number cards showing that number of pumpkins. There are math links strewn about. There is one number card that says 2 on a pumpkin and has 2 math links attached to it.

7. FREEBIE! Geometry Jack-O’Lanterns

Thanks for sticking around and reading this far! Here is a fun Halloween-themed freebie to use with your students!

Cut out the pumpkins, dice cards, and shapes. Kids will roll the dice to add shapes for the eyes, nose, and mouth – creating a jack-o’-lantern.

Print in black and white and students can color in their creations.

Print in color, laminate, and attach velcro for reuse.

What Halloween Math Activities Will You Use?

If you use any of the activities above, I would love to hear about it! Comment below or find me on Instagram @tttoolbox and let me know!

Thanks for stopping by Traveling Teacher’s Toolbox! I sincerely hope you found some of these ideas helpful! Have a safe and happy Halloween!

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