Fall and Halloween Party Social Distancing Ideas

Here’s a list of no-contact Fall and Halloween ideas and games you can play with your students. Classrooms parties are fun, but there’s a lot of planning involved! You have to organize and gather materials, set up the centers, and communicate the festivities to parents and students. The list goes on and on. Add social distancing to that, and you have added tasks ahead of you.

Here are five activities that you can use that celebrates Fall and Halloween and are also educational!

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Fall and Halloween Sight Word BINGO

Who doesn’t love a game of BINGO? In this version, students spell, read, and write their sight words. If they get four in a row, they can scream bingo.

Halloween and Fall Freebies - Here are some math and reading activities you can implement during your fall or Halloween party.

However, you don’t have to limit it to sight words. You can have students write their CVC words or a specific spelling pattern. You can make it festive by adding fun manipulatives like spiders or Halloween erasers.

Create Your Gruffalo

The Gruffalo is a fun story you can read any time of the year. Julia Donaldson’s book is about a mouse that keeps meeting animals that want to eat him. So, the clever mouse creates a mythical creature called the Gruffalo to scare away its enemies until… the mouse meets thee Gruffalo! I like this story because although it is about a scary creature, it is not a scary story, and Gruffalo’s appearance won’t frighten your students.

After you read, have students create their own Gruffalo.

They need construction paper in various colors, scissors, glue, a paper plate, a pencil, and a craft stick. They can glue them on the plate. Last, they use adjectives to describe their monster and can go on a gallery walk or share their monster with the class.

Spooky Subtraction / Fall Subtraction

Here’s an independent or partner math activity. Your students will need a die and a pencil. They roll the die and pick a number sentence in that column to solve. They continue to play until they reach the top.

Partner version: Students take turns rolling the die and solving number sentences. The first person to get to the top of a column wins.

Spooky Addition / Fall Addtion

Here’s the same roll and race activity but with additional fall and Halloween activities. Switch it up and let them count with seasonal objects like erasers. Use pumpkin candy if you are celebrating fall.

Halloween and Fall Word Problems

My students are working on solving word problems using multiple strategies. These fall or Halloween word problems are perfect application practice.

The words are simple enough to read by themselves or rely on the pictures to help them. They have to solve the problems using a ten frame, picture, or number line. They also have to write a number sentence and complete a statement.

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