Halloween Math & ELA Games and Centers | Grades 1-2 | Print + Digital
Keep learning on track during Halloween week! Every activity practices skills most Grade 1 and Grade 2 classes are working on in late October. The characters are friendly, not scary. Low prep: print and go, or use the interactive slides.
Math (two levels: Level A = Grade 1, Level B = Grade 2)
- Pumpkin Patch Path board game (2–4 players)
- Haunted House Task Cards: 24 Level A cards (add/subtract within 20, word problems, tens and ones, comparing, 10 more/10 less, time) and 24 Level B cards (word problems within 100, fact fluency, even and odd, arrays, place value to 1,000, skip counting, comparing three-digit numbers), with recording sheet
- Mystery Pictures: color by sum and color by difference
- The Case of the Missing Candy math mystery (clue sheet for each level)
- Halloween Time Tellers: hour and half hour
- Even or Odd cut-and-sort
ELA
- Digraph Sort: sh, ch, th
- Noun or Verb? sort
- Two original stories with questions: "Pip and the Big Pumpkin" (Gr 1) and "Bella's Big Night" (Gr 2)
- Sequencing: How to Make a Jack-o'-Lantern
- Spooky ABC Order (first and second letter)
- Halloween Word Search and Crossword
Teacher pages: teacher guide, standards table, 5-day plan, game directions, and answer keys for every activity.
Interactive slides (16, PowerPoint / Google Slides): type-in task cards for both levels, a drag-the-X math mystery board, and a drag-and-drop digraph sort.
Standards: 1.OA.A.1, 1.OA.C.6, 1.NBT.B.3, 1.MD.B.3, 2.OA.A.1, 2.OA.C.3, 2.NBT.A.1, 2.NBT.B.5, RF.1.3a, RF.2.3, RL.1.1, RL.2.1, L.1.1e and more (full list inside).
Delivered as one zip (36-page PDF + PowerPoint). Single-classroom license.
Designed by a classroom teacher and instructional coach. Illustrations are created with AI tools; all content is written and reviewed for standards alignment and classroom use.
