Halloween Homeschool Activities 2025

One of my favorite parts of homeschooling is during the holidays when we can theme a lot of our school activities around the holiday! With a baby, I'm feeling a little behind, but I have started planning some Halloween homeschool activities to do with the kids this Halloween and I wanted to share them here!

Halloween Crafts

Skeleton Paper Garland

For this activity, you use paper chains to make a large skeleton. We have already done a few simple skeleton activities this year (labeling the bones in a skeleton, cutting out and gluing together a paper skeleton, etc) and I thought this would be a fun activity for the kids. I have one daughter in particular who I think will love it this year and it can be a decoration when we are done!

Water Color Webs

With this activity, you use a white crayon to draw a spiderweb on a paper plate. Then you let the kids paint over it with water colors--the paint sticks to the paper but not to the crayon drawing. My kids have loved water color paints this year and this is a really fun activity that all my kids (ages 4 to 11) will really enjoy.

Make a Paper Spiderweb

This is similar to making snowflakes, but in a way that when you open up the paper, it is in the shape of a spiderweb! I think my older three girls will love this one! I also think once they learn how to make one, we'll end up with about a hundred paper spiderwebs around the house (anyone else have factory-mode kids with crafts?).

Yarn Pumpkins

For this activity, you cover yarn in glue and place it around a balloon. Once the yarn is dry, you pop the balloon and are left with a pumpkin shape of yarn. I don't know if I'll do this activity, but we have balloons and yarn, so it would be doable. I think my kids would love it, it just seems a little more involved for me and with the baby, it depends on how much capacity I end up having for something like this.

Draw Monsters with Googly Eyes

This activity is really simple! You put googly eyes on a paper in random places and let your kids draw monsters around the eyes. It's a good activity for all ages because they can draw at their own level, but I think my four year old will especially love this activity.

Halloween Science Experiments

Mummy Apples

One thing I love to do with science is find things that are Halloween-y and learn about them (I did a whole unit study on bones one year!). This year, we are learning about the mummification process and what real mummies were, and for a hands on science activity, we are mummifying our own apple. It's really simple--you just make some cuts in the apple and place it in a bag with salt and baking soda--but it does take a few weeks.

Witch's Cauldrons

This is an activity we do every year. I have mini cauldrons that I fill halfway with vinegar. Then I give my kids baking soda and things to put in their potions (sticks, food coloring, googly eyes, fake spiders, etc) and let them go at it. We talk about catalysts and reactions and things, but mostly they just like to make potions.

Dissolving Candy Corn

This is another favorite activity--you get different liquids (water, hot water, oil, vinegar, etc) and put a piece of candy corn in each one. You can each make a hypothesis beforehand about which one will dissolve the candy corn fastest, and then you wait and watch to see who was correct.

Disappearing Monsters

I've never tried this activity before, but it seems pretty simple, which is great for us this year. The kids draw monsters on coffee filters and then use water to make the monster pictures disappear.

Core Subjects

Halloween Madlibs

Madlibs is a fun way to get some grammar in with my kids and doing them themed just makes them more fun.

Surprise Math Pictures

These are always my kids favorite--they are color by number graphs that don't have any pre-drawn lines, so the kids don't know what it is until they fill in all the squares. Just like with color by number, Pinterest has a ton of free printables ranging from just numbers to addition to multiplication.

Graphing Candy

Graphing Candy is a new tradition I want to start with my kids this year. Before Halloween starts, you all guess how many of each popular candy is going to be handed out. After trick-or-treating, you create a graph together of how many your family actually recieved and you use the graph to see who was correct in guessing. It sounds very fun and is great graphing practice.

Halloween Decor Scavenger Hunt

Another new tradition I want to try this year! A few days before Halloween, I'll have an outdoor scavenger hunt ready, with items like Giant Spider or Spiderwebs, things that are often used as decorations. The kids and I can walk around the neighborhood looking for each item on the list.

That's what I have planned to do with my kids this month for Halloween that are school related! I think it's a manageable list, but also will be fun for the kids. What do you have planned to do with your kids? What are some of your favorite Halloween homeschool activities to do? I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!