Halloween is the spookiest time of the year. With witches brewing their potions, zombies dusting off their threads, and werewolves ready for a howling good time, it’s easy to capitalize on your students' excitement.

Use these Halloween-themed activities in the Wixie Curriculum Activities and Design Templates libraries to provide students with practice counting, sorting, working with shapes, displaying data, and more.

Looking for a fun performance assessment for both counting and one-to-one correspondence? Assign the Scary Count activity, which asks students to drag a specific number of Halloween-themed objects to complete a scary scene.

When they are done, students can use the microphone tool to record a description of their scene or even tell a scary story.

Get students excited about counting! In this activity, students practice counting by creating a 13-days of Halloween digital book. 

Students can use the built-in paint tools and Halloween stickers to quickly show the number of Halloween characters for their day. They can use the text tools to type their number and the microphone to record their voice on their page.

If you are working with preschool students, you may want to divide up the tasks. You can open the template and use the Team button to add all of your students and collaborate on the project. You can also assign a single page to each student and then use the Project Wizard to combine individual student pages together into a class book.

Standards state that primary learners should be able to "correctly name shapes" as well as build "shapes from components and drawing shapes." To engage students in these essential geometry standards, ask them to create a monster using basic shapes for body parts. 

In the Shape Monster activity, students use the Image button to add shapes. When they select the Image button, a folder of basic shape stickers will show automatically.

Bags filled with candy are the highlight and hallmark of a successful Halloween for many students, but everyone's candy preferences differ. Have students conduct a survey with classmates about their favorite candy and display the data in a Favorite Halloween Candy bar graph.

Survey your class to narrow down choices and change the images at the bottom before assigning this template. You can also customize your own bar graph or encourage students to edit the categories themselves.

Depending on your students' ages, you can adjust how you implement this project. With young students, open your teacher account and share on an interactive whiteboard. Have students come up one at a time to fill a square with a color that shows their preference. Use the Team feature to have older students collaborate on a bar graph, designing and labeling the axes, and entering the data from their survey.

Sudoku is a logic puzzle in which numbers are placed in a grid so that each row, column, and sub-grid contains only one of each number. Sudoku can also be created and solved using pictures instead of numbers, but the required logic skills remain the same.

Sudoku is a great example of play that builds essential math skills. To solve a Sudoku with numbers or pictures, students must count objects and compare sets of objects.

The October Month-by-Month folder in the Curriculum Activities library contains two Halloween-themed Sudoku image games you can assign. The 4x4 sudoku and 6x6 sudoku puzzles work great as bell-ringer activities.

Browse the October Month-by-Month folder to find even more math activities connected to Halloween, including sorting, patterns, and ordinal numbers.

Happy Halloween!