

Celebrating Halloween in early childhood settings in Australia can be a fun and enriching experience. The following article provides the Pros and Cons Of Celebrating Halloween, Learning Goals For Halloween A Theme, Halloween Activities For Toddlers and Preschoolers, Linking Halloween To The EYLF and more.
On the 31st of October, it is Halloween. The following provides Halloween Templates, free Printables and Activities that will help you celebrate Halloween at your service and can be implemented into the curriculum for children.
With Halloween, just a couple of days away here is a list of our free Printables and Activities that you can download for free to use with children on Monday 31st October to celebrate Halloween. Haloween Theme printables include Pre Writing, Counting Numbers, Cutting Activities, Shapes Activities, Colours Activities, Colouring Pages and more!
Halloween Tracing helps the children in their development of prewriting skills by encouraging them to trace pictures. By tracing pictures children trace over different lines and shapes while creating the picture which will give them the confidence to write letters and numbers.
The Witches Brew Bubble Counting encourages children to identify the number on the cauldron and add the matching number of bubbles on top of the cauldron. These can be laminated and also used with play dough. This is great for children beginning to recognise numbers and also for counting and one-to-one correspondence.
The Halloween Shadow Cards encourage children to examine the different shapes of various objects and match them to their correct shadows. It helps children with visual memory and enables children to sort based on the similarity and differences of different objects.
The Halloween I Spy is a great counting game for children, Children have to count the correct "scary" picture objects and write the correct amount next to the picture. These can be laminated and children can circle the objects as they count. Great to use as a Halloween activity.
Alphabet Witches Match enables children to match the correct letter on the witches hat to the correct witch. This activity supports children in recognising the letters of the alphabet, improves their concentration and memory as well as practice visual discrimination.
Spider counting is a counting activity from 1 to 10 for children to match the correct number of spiders onto the plane. This activity is great for number recognition, for children learning their numbers, one to one correspondence and more.
Spider have been included that can be printed and used for this activity. Spider toys, playdough, blocks etc. can also be used for counting.
Pumpkin Head Shapes is a simple activity for children. Children have to choose the correct shape to add to the pumpkin to complete the pumpkin head face.
These can be laminated and use with the shapes provided or even as playdough mats. A great Halloween activity.
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