October 8, 2024

FREE Halloween Reading Printables for Kids

Get ready to ignite your child’s love for reading this October with our Halloween Reading printable set! These Halloween printables are perfectly crafted for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students with fun-to-read short passages paired with comprehension questions to help kids hone their reading and understanding skills. Each page on these free Halloween printables features a delightful Halloween-themed story that will captivate young readers and make learning a treat!

Halloween Reading

This “Halloween Reading” printable set is a fun and engaging way to get young readers excited about reading during the spooky season! Designed for kids in Kindergarten through 2nd grade, these short passages with comprehension questions provide practice in both reading and understanding text. Each page features a fun Halloween-themed story to delight young readers.

Halloween Printables

The printable set includes four sheets, each featuring a small, easy-to-read passage and a related comprehension question. These short stories are perfect for emerging readers and help build confidence in reading skills while keeping with the fun and festive spirit of Halloween.

This October, spark your child's love for reading with our free Halloween printable set, featuring engaging stories and comprehension questions designed for Kindergarten to 2nd grade!

Free halloween printables

Four Halloween-Themed Passages: Each passage features a fun and simple Halloween-related theme, such as friendly ghosts, pumpkins, trick-or-treating, or a spooky (but not too scary) adventure.
Comprehension Questions: Every sheet has a space for the child to answer a question based on the story, helping to reinforce reading comprehension. These questions encourage children to think about what they have read and to put their thoughts into words.
Writing Space: Space is provided beneath each question for children to write their answers. This also encourages early writing skills and helps them express their thoughts clearly.

Educational Benefits

Reading Practice: These short passages offer a great opportunity for early readers to practice reading fluency and sight words.
Comprehension Skills: The accompanying questions help students practice basic comprehension skills, encouraging them to focus on the details of the story.
Writing Skills: Children have a chance to develop their handwriting and sentence-building skills by writing out their answers.
Engaging Theme: The Halloween theme adds an extra element of fun to reading practice, keeping children engaged and interested in the activity.

Perfect for Halloween-Themed Learning

This printable set is perfect for use at home or in the classroom during the Halloween season. It’s a simple and enjoyable way to help young children improve their reading and comprehension while enjoying the spooky excitement of Halloween!

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Looking for some fun Halloween activities for your little ones? Check out our free printable Happy Halloween activity worksheets! These Halloween worksheets have mazes, drawing exercises, word searches, and more! Get kids excited about Halloween while sharpening their skills Halloween activities printable. Download the Halloween workshetes for kindergarten, pre-k, and first grde students now and enjoy hours of spooky fun!

This quick and easy pumpkin puffy paint recipes is great for making really pretty and fun-to-make fall pumpkins. we will show you how to make puffy paint to use in pumpkin crafts for kids. These fall crafts are great for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. This open-ended autumn craft is sure to be a favorite at your house!

This outrageously FUN Exploding Pumpkin is a fun halloween science experiment for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This pumpkin activity is super simple to try using common materials you already have in your kitchen! Use this halloween activities to teach kids a little chemistry with this baking soda and vinegar experiment as part of your pumpkin theme or halloween theme in October.

I just LOVE simple science activities that help my kids explore the world around them and wonder WHY things happen. This halloween skittles project allows kids to explore how colors diffuse with a really pretty and fun pumpkin science experiment. This halloween activities is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders too.

This quick and easy homemade silly putty recipe is perfect to fill your October with fun pumpkin activities. For this diy silly putty all you need are a few common materials to make this outrageously fun play recipe. Use this halloween activities for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade as part of a pumpkin theme or halloween theme.

This halloween science experiment is sure to delight and amaze kids of all ages! With just a couple simple materials you can make ghost rockets! These film canister rocket project allow kids to see what happens in a simple chemical reaction perfect for October. Try these alka seltzer rockets with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.

Are you looking for a fun AND educational fall activity for kids? These pumpkin science experiments are quick, easy, and engaging for kids of all ages. For this halloween science all you need are a few common liquids, candy, and our dissolving candy experiment worksheet. This candy science is perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. Simply print halloween science worksheet and you are ready to play and learn!

Instead of the traditional trick and treat this Halloween, why not try something a little different. You can still get outside and have fun walking around the neighborhood, getting some exercise, while searching for different Halloween related items such as spiders, bats, cats, as part of this free printable Halloween Scavenger Hunt. This Halloween Scavenger Hunt for Kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade children.

If you are looking for a fun, hands-on fall math activity, you are going to love this Candy Corn Math! These free printable Candy Corn Multiplication and candy corn division puzzles make it fun for 3rd and 4th grade students to sneak in some fun math practice during October and November! We love educational activities and free math games to make learning fun!

This silly and fun static electricity experiment is a great way to play and learn about science while having fun with halloween activities. All you need to try this ghost experiment is a balloon, tissue paper, and a marker. This Halloween science experiment is fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too.

Looking for a spooky science experiment? Kids of all ages will be mesmorized by this flying ghost science experiment! Besides having fun with a clever halloween science experiment, studnets will be learning about how hot air rises. Try this halloween activity for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.

Kids will have fun exploring scientific principals with this melting pumpkins project perfect for October. This simle pumpkin science experiment allows toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders to explore a chemical reaction and cause and effect. Not only will children learn about simple chemistry through this baking soda and vinegar experiment, but they will aslo have loads of fun with halloween activities.

Kids will have fun rolling the dough to make pumpkins and Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns with this taste safe pumpkin clay! This pumpkin playdough is perfect for October, harvest, fall, and pumpkin activities! This pumpkin play dough recipe is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders.

Whip up a batch of this pumpkin playdough to use as a book activity with Spookley the Square Pumpkin! Children can use the pumpkin pie playdough to form different shapes for a fun halloween activity for preschool, toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders. These pumpkin activities are a great extension activity for our favorite Octoober book for kids.

If you are looking for a really cute pumpkin arts and crafts to try in October, you will love these pretty yarn pumpkins. This pumpkin craft for kids uses a simple technique with a balloon, orange yarn, and glue to make a lovely decoration this fall. Try this craft pumpkin ideas with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade or 4th graders.

If you are looking for a quick and easy pumpkin playdough recipe, you will love this edible pumpkin play dough! This playdoh uses marshmallow pumpkin peeps and is ready in under 5 minutes. Once you've made your play doh you are ready for lots of fun pumpkin activities creating fall themed items, strenthening hand mucles, and snacking a little bit on the way too. Try this pumpkin activity for preschool, pre-k, toddler, kindergarten, and first graders in October.

Make practicing reading fun with these super cute, free printable pumpkin Word Family Sliders! Learning to read rhyming words is the first step towards learning to read. This pumpkin printable is perfect for preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students to make learning fun. Each word family printable has not only the word, but a picture clue too!

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Celebrate it is pumpkin season with these fun, creative and unique pumpkin activities perfect for October. These pumpkin activities for kids include pumpkin games, pumpkin science, a few pumpkin crafts, and LOTS of fun pumpkin activities for kids from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students.

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FREE Pumpkin Math Activity - fun addition math practice for prek, kindergarten, and first graders during October for a pumpkin themed educational activity #pumpkin #addition #kindergarten

Spider shapes activity for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners

You've probably heard of the dancing raisins science project, well seeing as those it's October and Halloween is just around the corner I decided to make a more relevant theme. This frankenworms experiment demonstrates the same chemical reaction with baking soda and vinegar, but with fun halloween activities. This halloween science experiment is perfect for all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and up.

In less than 5 minutes you can have this delicious, fall themed candy corn playdough. This edible playdough is super quick and easy to make, fun to play with during October and November, plus it uses fall favorite candy corn candy! Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students will love playing with this easy Playdough Recipe that is made from candy corn!

Looking for a fun activity to get your kids this October? Download and print our free printable Halloween word search puzzles today! This super cute pack, with varrying degrees of difficulty, is it perfect for kindergartners, first graders, 2nd graders, 3rd graders, 4th graders, 5th graders, and 6th graders too.

Halloween Activities

Free Halloween Activity Worksheets and free printable halloween word search puzzles
Hole Punching Pumpkin Craft for Preschoolers, 100 Pumpkin Crafts for First Grade, Fun-to-Make Yarn Pumpkins Craft for Kids, Paint Swatch Pumpkin Craft for Preschoolers, Scented Pumpkin Puffy Paint, Halloween Jack-o-Lantern Craft for kids, Silly Spider Name Craft, 31 October Crafts for Kids, Gummy Worm Slime
Free Candy Corn Words, Candy Corn Edible Playdough, Addition and Subtraction Candy Corn Math, Phonics Puzzles with a fun Candy Corn Theme, 28 Candy Corn Activities, EPIC Candy Corn Popsicle Stick Catapults, Candy Corn Multiplication and Division Puzzles, Counting Candy Corn Puzzles, Free Printable Candy Corn Alphabet Mats, Addition Halloween Math Craft
Homemade Halloween Silly Putty, How to Make Pumpkin Slime, Taste Safe Pumpkin Clay for Kids, Scented Rice Pumpkin Activity, 50 fun Pumpkin Activities, Edible Peep Pumpkin Playdough, edible candy corn playdough recipe you MUST try and not-to-spook Halloween Slime
Errupting Halloween Pumpkin Volcano , Not-so-Spooky Halloween Ghost Science Experiment, Exploding Pumpkin Science, Dissolving Candy Halloween Science Experiments, Frankenworms Halloween Science Experimen, Melting Pumpkins Science Experiment for October, EASY Static Electricity Ghost Experiment, Halloween Lava Lamp Science Experiment, Use your leftover Halloween candy to try some of these candy science experiments, or this water displacement with candy, or this fun candy STEM idea.
Amazing Spider SLime, homemade Pumpkin Playdough, cute parts of a pumpkin craft, free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets pack, cut-and-paste Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheet, Simple Skittles Pumpkin Science Experiment
EASY Pumpkin Volcano Science Experiments, Dissapearing Flying Ghost Halloween Science Experiment, Flying Film Canister Ghost Rockets, Frankenstein’s Hand Halloween Science Experiment, Quickly Growing Pumpkin Science Experiment, Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Volcano Halloween Science Experiments
Trace and Erase Pumpkin Printable Letters, practice sight words with this fun Pumpkin Game, find the letter pumpkin worksheets for preschool, phonics Pumpkin Activity for Kindergarten, Word Family Sliders Pumpkin Activity for Kindergarten, Improve reading with this fun Word Family Pumpkin Activity for Kindergarten
Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets, Bat Life Cycle Worksheets, Free Spider Life Cycle Worksheets, Worm Worksheets
Free pumpkin shapes printable playdough mats, pumpkin Pie Number Sense pumpkin activity for preschoolers, pumpkin counting activity, hands on Pumpkin Shape Matching games, 1:1 correspondence with this pumpkin math activity, Pumpkin Shapes Printable game for kids, pumpkin math worksheets, cute pumpkin counting, pumpkin math for Kindergarten, Pumpkin Addition Worksheets, and Frankenstine Sentences Halloween Worksheets

This October, spark your child's love for reading with our free Halloween printable set, featuring engaging stories and comprehension questions designed for Kindergarten to 2nd grade!

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!