If you are looking for free Halloween math activities for elementary school students , here are the best I can find! (There are also a few for preschool and middle school.) Please also see my other post specifically for Pumpkin Math.
One cool activity I found that doesn’t fit into the below categories is the Greg Tang Halloween Math Challenge. Here you can find a math challenge game board for students to complete during the week of Halloween, using the online games and books at TangMath.com (which is a fantastic site for developing number sense and math understanding). There is even an interactive game board perfect for assigning for virtual learning. Parents or teachers can enter participating students in a drawing to win prizes.
No Prep Activities
Symmetric Faces mask making activity from Mathwire
Free Printable Activities
13 Spooky Math Challenge Puzzles from Mashup Math
Free printable Halloween sudoku puzzles
Printable Halloween Tangram Puzzles
Coloring Squared Halloween characters for all operations
Grab the Candy coordinate graphing game or Catch the Spider coordinate graphing game. Both of these are free printable PDFs from Mathwire. Catch the Spider has directions for a partner game Battleship style- students place their spiders then call ordered pairs to guess where their partner’s spiders are placed. Grab the Candy could be played the same way but comes with directions and recording sheets for a dice rolling partner game.
Pascals Bats– a Pascals triangle made from bats challenges students to find the number patterns on this free PDF.
Hands On Activities
Halloween Pasta Graphing with free printables
Mummy Math Halloween Estimation and Measurement. In this hands on activity from Math Geek Mama, children estimate how many squares of toilet paper it would take to wrap a child like a mummy!
Use Hershey kisses for a math facts memory game as pictured below.
Counting Hands Math Activity for basic addition
Candy Corn Counting for the little ones
STEM
Candy Catapults Free directions for STEM activity and game
Halloween Balloon Races- Spooky Physics and STEM
Skeleton Bridge STEM– free directions for building a skeleton bridge from Q tips.
Flying Bats Straw Rockets with free printable bat template.
Wings Wanted– this version of a paper airplane building STEM challenge has students making paper bats. Directions and video are free but you also have the option to purchase a package with wingless bat body templates, student handouts, modifications, and cross curricular connections.
Challenge questions
The word Halloween is repeated over and over with a jack-o- lantern between each word. What letter will be in the 100th place? How do you know?
Place Value Haunted Halloween Math challenge question for advanced students in grades 2-3
