Students attach clothespins with letters to the pictures that have the corresponding beginning sounds. There is also a black and white recording sheet included with this activity. The beginning sounds activity is available in the Halloween bundle located in the printables section below.
Students will have fun finding their rhyming partners in this fun, large group game available in the Halloween bundle below. This activity also includes two recording sheets, one for uppercase letters and one for lowercase letters. These printable word charts are available in both black and white and color in the Halloween bundle below. The predictable text in this pocket chart set will help your students learn concepts of print such as left to right directionality, return sweep, one-to-one correspondence, and more.
This activity is available in the Halloween bundle below. The predictable text in this book is designed to support your emergent readers. Use this book to reinforce concepts of print such as words are separated by spaces, left to right and top to bottom, written words match spoken words, common sight words, and more.
The emergent reader is available in the Halloween bundle below. The printable word cards can be used to expand vocabulary in a pocket chart or on a word wall; they are available in the Halloween bundle below.
This easy to assemble book helps reinforce number sense and counting. The Halloween Counting Book is available in the Halloween bundle below. Available in the Halloween bundle below, this activity will help build number sense and one to one correspondence.
Students will roll a die and move their playing piece towards the haunted house. Develop fine motor and counting skills at the same time! These printable play dough counting mats are available in the Halloween bundle below. The playing cards are available in black and white and color for your convenience. Also included are two printable recording sheets in black and white, one for each version of the game.
Fine Motor Fun with Spiders You can find information for creating the fine motor spider activity on the blog. Have the students dip their Q-Tips in the liquid glue and fill in the outline with a thin layer of glue. Next, shake glitter over the glue and let dry. To play, split up into breakout rooms and ask questions of other party guests. Players can also fill in the spaces from memory or personal knowledge, but will have to back up the facts.
Participants cannot use the same teammate in any consecutive row, column, or diagonal. Here is another virtual Halloween Bingo template. Learn more about virtual team Bingo. Trick or treating is one of the most exciting Halloween activities. This activity encourages remote team members to interact and adds a modern twist to a nostalgic Halloween experience. Playing games online is one of the most entertaining virtual Halloween party ideas. There are plenty of ways to add a spooky twist to standard remote team building games , including completing a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt.
We made a template for a Halloween scavenger hunt you can play with your teams during your online celebration. Haunted houses are a staple of Halloween entertainment.
Though you and your remote team may not be able to physically tour an abandoned mansion or take a frightening hayride together, you can still give your group goosebumps with a virtual haunted house experience.
You could also follow virtual walk-throughs of entertainment-based haunted houses, such as the ones on this YouTube playlist. These virtual tours provide all the thrills and chills of a traditional haunted house experience, with the added bonus of allowing you to switch to a different tab if it get too scary.
Check out our list of virtual haunted houses you can explore with your team. All Halloween parties need costumes, and virtual celebrations are no exceptions. To set the tone of the holiday, invite your attendees to join the video call in costume. Be sure to set a dress code so that employees know that holiday attire should remain professional, so no overly revealing garments or excessive gore.
You can up the fun factor by hosting a virtual costume contest. Before the party, announce the categories, such as best coordinated costume, funniest costume, scariest costume, most creative costume, most detailed costume, and most timely costume.
Once all votes are in, announce the winners and award prizes like Starbucks or Amazon gift cards. Check out our post on virtual costume contests for more ideas. Sure, you and your team could go crazy covering the living room in artificial cobwebs or writing threatening messages in fake blood on the walls. Or, you could decorate for your Zoom Halloween party the easy way by changing your Zoom backgrounds to sinister or seasonal scenes. You can even turn the activity into a competition and award a prize to the most amusing, creative, or interesting entry.
Here is a tutorial from Zoom on how to change your background. Halloween and Christmas are the holidays with the most TV and movie specials. While Christmas movies aim to make you feel warm and fuzzy, Halloween moves aim to make you scream, either with fear or with laughter.
To set the mood for your online Halloween party, you and your team can stream creepy Halloween content on platforms like Zoom. By using a program like Metastream , you and your group can watch shows and movies simultaneously. Watching Halloween specials together is a great way to find out which of your virtual teammates are jumpy and which ones have wicked senses of humor.
Not to mention, surviving scary movie viewings is always easier with company! Halloween is notorious for two things: costumes and candy. No Halloween party would be complete without sweet treats. Instead of making your employees dip into the trick-or-treat stash, send each team member sweets to enjoy during your virtual Halloween bash.
If you want to personalize your goodie bags, then you can always create your own candy bags to mail to the team. You can even include some fun Halloween-themed toys such as spider rings, vampire fangs, and witch fingers. Your team may consist of modern professionals, but chances are many of your colleagues are kids at heart when it comes to candy.
The supernatural takes center stage in the month of October. During your virtual Halloween party, entertain your team with the occult by way of digital fortune telling and online seances. You can consult a virtual Ouija board on the Museum of Talking Boards website, or get a free online tarot card reading from Lotus Tarot. A site called Spirit Navigator offers upwards of fifty different free online fortune telling methods , so you and your team can explore various options of reading your fates.
Or, if you and your team would rather not tamper with the unknown, then you can craft custom fortunes for teammates as a storytelling exercise. Ghost stories are a classic form of Halloween entertainment. You can liven up your online Halloween party by asking your teammates to share spine-tingling scary stories.
For inspiration, check out CreepyPasta , which are scary stories shared on various websites. You can also read through this list of terrifying tales on HuffPost or head over to the super short scary stories section on Reddit for ideas on how to tell a bone chilling tale.
If your team feels creepily creative, then each member can write an original frightening story to share. Halloween-themed cocktails can add an element of eerie fun to your online soiree.
For inspiration, check out this list of creepy cocktails from Good Housekeeping. I recommend sending your team a list of ingredients or recipes ahead of time so that your guests come prepared. You can either lead the team through a Halloween-drink-making tutorial during the call, or you can allow each team member to pick a poison and brew a Halloween spirit to bring to the party.
Virtual Halloween games are contests to entertain your online party guests. From murder mysteries to scavenger hunts, here is a list of online Halloween games you can play at your party. These activities are also called virtual Halloween party games. Virtual Halloween games will keep your guests entertained during your online bash.
The Halloween party persona game is an improv activity where each guest acts out a distinct trait and other guests must guess the quirk. We made a template with ideas for Halloween-themed personas, and you can add your own identities to the list too. You can play as many rounds as you would like or as time allows. This game serves as a great icebreaker, as well as an opportunity for teams to exercise imagination and communication skills.
Halloween is one of the best times of the year to plan a murder mystery party. There are many virtual murder mystery games that can challenge your team to figure out the killer.
Since mummies are classic horror movie characters, this mystery fits right into the Halloween theme. You can find other pre-made murder mystery packages online, or you can even write your own. Playing Halloween games online encourages remote teammates to communicate and use critical thinking skills to solve puzzles and riddles. Murder mystery games encourage teamwork and collaboration in a fun and relaxed environment.
Plus, these games award the master detectives on your team with verified bragging rights. Here is our complete guide to online murder mysteries. In this online Halloween game, you'll follow a "recipe" and combine all kinds of gross ingredients like fingers, eyeballs, brains, and worms to create a potion.
WitchMart from Primary Games. Jacko Matcho is a simple online Halloween game for younger kids where you match different jack-o'-lanterns together. You'd be surprised how challenging this game is since all the jack-'o-lanterns look slightly similar. It will give your brain and your kids'! Jacko Matcho from The Kidz Page. Witchy Words is an online version of the perennial favorite word search puzzle , making for an activity that is fun and even a bit educational.
Kids get to use their mouse to spell out Halloween words like black cat, broom, green, magic, and more. Witchy Words from The Kidz Page. Mario Games. Get ready to help Mario out in this fun online Halloween game. Kids will be in charge of guiding Mario through a haunted house and helping him solve puzzles so he can get out safe and sound.
Mario GhostHouse from Mario Games. In this online Halloween game for kids, it's your job to catch the pumpkins and put them in the wheelbarrow.
Just watch out for those evil pumpkins! Pumpkin Supply from Pepere. Halloween Sierra is an online Halloween dress-up game for kids where participants can have fun dressing the main character Sierra up in new shoes, hats, jewelry, and more.
Halloween Sierra from Primary Games. Watch these moving Frankenstein heads closely because one of them has a brain under it! This fun online Halloween game will challenge their mind while they have fun playing it. Frankenbrain from Y8. It's not Halloween without a candy-themed Halloween Mahjong game in this fun online Halloween game for kids and adults alike. Match the candy tiles to clear the board and be declared the winner. Novel Games. In this online Halloween game for kids, you'll need to shoot the pumpkins together to make groups of three.
Once you've matched three pumpkins together they'll be destroyed and you'll rack up points. Halloween Pumpkins from Novel Games.
Solitaire Paradise. Halloween Tripeaks is an engaging online Halloween game for kids and adults. Win as many rounds as you can by finding cards that are lower or higher in sequence to the card you're playing. Halloween Tripeaks from Solitaire Paradise. Sheppard Software. In this online Halloween game, your kids will need to have some sharp typing skills.
To win, they'll need to type the words on the ghosts in order to destroy them. The Typing of the Ghosts from Sheppard Software. If your child likes Sudoku then they're going to love this online Halloween-themed Sudoku game for kids. Instead of numbers, the game uses spooky symbols like spiders, skulls, and eyes. New Grounds. Ghoul Racers is a fast-paced online racing Halloween game for kids. Steer your coffin and hit all the checkmarks to be the first to finish in this ghouly race.
Ghoul Racers from New Grounds.
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