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Give all of your activities a spooky twist with our free printable Halloween activities for kindergarten like this Werewolf Spin and Cover Letters. Your students will be howling for more capital letter recognition games in no time!
There’s always a nervousness around school when the full moon appears, and in no month is this more terrifying than October. Halloween dominates the month, and your students will spend multiple weekends dressed up trick or treating for candy. It can feel almost impossible to keep them engaged and on task at this time of year, so as the old saying goes: if you can’t beat them, join them!
Teaching Letter Recognition
The rise of more preschool programs across the country means that some of your kindergarten students will come in knowing some of their letters. However, it will still fall on you to work your way through the alphabet at the start of the year to build their letter recognition skills. At the start of each letter, you’ll do plenty of hands-on activities such as tracing and mark making to help them build muscle memory for each shape. This werewolf spin and cover letters game is a good activity to do as you build up the alphabet. There are 5 capital letter recognition games to play as you go through the alphabet, and you can easily combine spin and cover letters as you teach each letter.
Free Printable Halloween Activities for Kindergarten
For this activity you will need:
Paper
Printer
Halloween themed mini erasers or tokens
Plastic spinner or paperclip + pencil
Optional: laminator
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Extension Activities For Capital Letter Recognition Games
Your students will quickly master this Halloween letter game. They need a paper clip and a pencil to make the spinner work, and then a series of counters or small objects to cover up the copies of each letter as it gets spun. To extend their learning, try some of these werewolf spin and cover letters activities:
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Make larger play mats – the base version of this spin and cover letters game has 5 sequential letters on each mat. Make the game harder by combining mats, either through some creative photocopying or by creating a larger game mat with more letters. This will put your students’ capital letter recognition to the test.
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Make it a scavenger hunt – any time you can introduce movement into your kindergarten academic periods, everyone wins. To make this Halloween letter game into a full scale scavenger hunt, print multiple copies of one page and cut all the individual letters out. Hide them around your classroom and have students race to mark all the instances of each letter as you call it out.
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Play call out – finally, you can also add some social skills to these free printable Halloween activities for kindergarten. Cut up the game board so that one player has all the letters while their partner has the spinner. The partner with the spinner calls out the letter, and their partner has to cover all the instances of the letter as quickly as possible. You can then have them switch roles, or continue in that configuration until all the letters have been covered up.
More Themed Centers Perfect for Halloween:
My Halloween Themed Centers is a variety pack of 10 games focused on early literacy, math, and fine motor skills.
These are the games included:
1) Witch Sight Word Spells – 40 pre-primer word cards provided with themed letter cards to form the sight words
2) Werewolf Spin and Cover Letters – alphabet divided into 5 different playing mats
3) Spider Web Sight Word Match – match the spider to its web to work on recognition of the pre-primer sight words
4) Trick or Treat Tracing – develop pre-writing fine motor skills with 15 different tracing patterns
5) Graveyard Alphabet Match – pair up the letter ghosts with their tombstones
6) Frankenstein Ten Frame Matching – big version and file folder version included
7) Candy Counting Mats to 10 – trick or treat themed counting mats that you can use with playdough or any counting manipulative
8) Count and Write to 10 – flashcards that can be used for counting the objects and then learning to write the number words
9) Measurement Cards – grab a ruler and record the lengths of 12 different creatures on the answer sheet provided
10) Halloween Treats Emotions Sorting Mats – 6 different sets of treats with 6 different emotions included
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Fun Books for Halloween:
Other Halloween Printables You’ll Love:
1) Halloween Worksheet Pack – Lots of Halloween treats await your students in this fun-filled activity packet. 50 pages of literacy, math and fine motor practice inside!
2) Halloween Shadow Matching – Preschoolers need visual discrimination and matching skills in order to differentiate between the letters and numbers and to be able to classify objects. This Halloween shadow matching game develops these early literacy and math skills.
3) Werewolf Spin and Cover Letters – Learning to recognize letters is made fun and easy with this spin and cover game. Kids will be howling like a werewolf with excitement as they race to find all the letters on their mat.
4) Halloween Themed Centers –10 fun Halloween-themed literacy and math centers for preschool and kindergarten. No tricks, only treats, in this pack!
Browse My Most Popular Literacy Activites:
1) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Kids will choose among 5 different letters on the strip to identify the matching ones.
2) Alphabet Beginning Sound Coloring Pages – Watch your child become more familiar with each letter of the alphabet as they practice coloring in the objects with that beginning sound.
3) Tommy Turkey’s Alphabet Pie – This turkey-themed letter recognition activity is so simple to prep and makes a great file folder game!
4) Pirate Alphabet Playdough Mats – Just print out the playing mats and ask your child to form the letters out using the playdough provided.
5) Farm Alphabet Find and Cover Letters – Work on letter recognition any time of the year!
6) Werewolf Spin and Cover – Kids will race to find all the letters on their mat this Halloween.
7) Bunny Burrows Game – Fun game for small groups or circle time where students will catch a bunny and say out the sound.
8) Letter-saurus Fossil Digging – Dinosaur lovers will enjoy being a pretend paleontologist and finding all the letters.
9) Alphabet Handwriting Worksheets – Practice lowercase and capital letters with these print-and-go pages.
10) Rainy Day Alphabet – 1 printable, many ways to use.
