Have you seen these Halloween eggs? There are so many fun ways you can use these for Halloween learning activities for kids during the month of October. From ABCs to multiplication, I’ve got a list of 23 ideas to share on ways to use these Halloween eggs for learning across multiple subjects and grades to ensure your elementary students are engaged all month long!
So I’m sure you’ve seen tons of ideas for how to use Easter eggs to create learning activities, but have you ever heard of Halloween eggs?
Yes, it’s like an Easter egg, but make it spooky! 🙂
I had seen pictures of these eggs floating around but I couldn’t find them anywhere. Just when I was about to dig through my Easter decorations, pull out all the orange eggs, and draw jack-o-lantern faces on them…
VOILA! These suddenly appeared to me on a shelf in Target one beautiful evening.
Unfortunately, the eggs are not currently available at Target but you check out these Halloween jack-o-lantern minis as a great alternative! (*link). If these don’t work, then alas, you might have to go with my alternative plan of drawing faces on old Easter eggs. But hey, it will work!
So I’m sure you are wondering what you could use these silly eggs for in the first place. Let me tell you, there’s a lot of possibilities for this $3 bag of silly looking jack-o-lantern eggs. I’ve put together a list of ideas below to help inspire you if you’re looking to incorporate these into your classroom, homeschool curriculum, or just use these at home for a fun way to practice skills with your kiddos!
Halloween Egg Activities for Literacy
- Letter Recognition: Place magnetic or plastic letters in each egg (this is what I did when using these with my little guy at home) and let kiddos pull the letters from each egg and practice naming them.
- Beginning Sounds: Place objects or picture cards in each egg and have kiddos say the beginning sound of each object as they open each egg. Ex. If they pull a picture card of a “hat” out of their egg, they would say the beginning sound is /h/.
- Ending Sounds: Place objects or picture cards in each egg and have kiddos say the ending sound of each object as they open each egg. Ex. If they pull a picture card of a “hat” out of their egg, they would say the ending sound is /t/.
- Vowel Sounds: Place objects or picture cards in each egg with long and short vowel sounds you are working on. Let kiddos open each egg and sort the sounds into 2 groups: long and short. Ex. If they are working on differentiating between long and short “a,” have them sort pictures or objects such as: cake, cat, bat, bake, apple, rat, rake, etc. Let them practice saying each word and listen for the vowel sound. You could even give them long and short vowel buckets to place objects in as they sort them.
- Rhyming Words: Place objects or picture cards in each egg and have kiddos say a word that rhymes with each object/picture. Ex. If they pull a picture card of a “cat” out of their egg, they would say “mat” or “hat.”
- Syllable Counting: Place objects or picture cards in each egg and have kiddos clap and count the number of syllables for that particular word. Ex. If they pull a picture card of a “cat” out of their egg, they would clap once and say that “cat” has one syllable.
- Sight Words: Place sight word cards in each egg and have kiddos pull them out and practice reading each word.
- Fluency: Place lines from a familiar Halloween poem in each egg (I recommend “Five Little Pumpkins”) and have kids practice reading the lines as they pull them out of the eggs to work on fluency skills. They could also read them in silly voices like a spooky jack-o-lantern voice to make it even more fun! Be sure to use a familiar poem that they have seen and know how to read mostly on their own to ensure they are able to focus on fluency and not decoding.
- Vocabulary: Take index cards and write key vocabulary words on the front of each card with its matching child-friendly definition on the back. These should be words students have worked with before and are trying to master. Fold them up and stuff them in the eggs. Let students open the eggs and try to recall the meaning of each word before self-checking with the definition on the back of the card.
- Comprehension Questions: Stuff each egg with a comprehension question such as “Explain the problem in this story” or “Describe the main character.” Allow students to grab 3-4 eggs during independent reading time and every few minutes, encourage them to open an egg and answer the question in their head to self-monitor their own comprehension as they read. You could also circulate the room during independent reading time and use these comprehension eggs when checking in with students.
Halloween Egg Activities for Math
- Number Recognition: Place magnetic or plastic numbers in each egg (this is another activity I did when using these with my little guy at home) and let kiddos pull the numbers from each egg and practice identifying them.
- Counting: Let kiddos pull numbers from the egg and practice counting to that number. Ex. If they pull a 6 from the egg, they would count to six: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
- One-to-One Correspondence: Have kiddos pull out a certain number of objects from each egg and practice counting them one-by-one. This helps work on 1-1 correspondence and reinforces counting. Ex. They might pull out 4 pieces of cereal from an egg and practice counting/touching each one to understand what 4 is.
- Addition: Place addition problems inside each egg and challenge students to solve them. You can give them pumpkin manipulatives and a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Make 5: Give students a 5 frame. Stuff each egg with different numbers of manipulatives (0-5). Have the students open the egg and place the manipulatives on their 5 frame. Then ask them how many more they need to make 5. Ex. They may pull 3 pumpkin mini erasers from their egg. They would place these on the 5 frame and respond that they have 3 and need 2 more to make 5. Or 5 is 3 and 2 more. You could add a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Make 10: Give students a 10 frame. Stuff each egg with different numbers of manipulatives (0-10). Have the students open the egg and place the manipulatives on their 10 frame. Then ask them how many more they need to make 10. Ex. They may pull 6 spider mini erasers from their egg. They would place these on the 10 frame and respond that they have 6 and need 4 more to make 10. Or 6 and 4 make 10. You could add a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Make 20: Give students a 20 frame. Stuff each egg with different numbers of manipulatives (0-20). Have the students open the egg and place the manipulatives on their 20 frame. Then ask them how many more they need to make 20. Ex. They may pull 12 bat mini erasers from their egg. They would place these on the 20 frame and respond that they have 12 and need 8 more to make 20. Or 12 and 8 make 20. You could add a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Subtraction: Place subtraction problems inside each egg and challenge students to solve them. You can give them fall/Halloween manipulatives and a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Multiplication: Place multiplication problems inside each egg and challenge students to solve them. You can give them fall/Halloween manipulatives so they can create arrays as they solve the problems. Add a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
- Division: Place division problems inside each egg and challenge students to solve them. You can give them fall/Halloween manipulatives so they can create equal groups as they solve the problems. Add a recording sheet to make this a complete learning center.
Other Skills to Practice with Halloween Eggs
- Color Recognition: Place different colored objects in the eggs and let littles pull them out to practice identifying colors.
- Speech Sounds: Let kids pull picture cards or objects out of the eggs to practice saying their target sounds if they are working on articulation. Ex. If they pull out a plastic toy rat, they might be working on the /r/ sound.
- Animals and Sounds: This one is perfect for really little ones 12-24 months who are working on developing those first several words. Place little toy animals or pictures of animals in the eggs and let the little one pull out the animal, say its name, and/or practice its sound. My son would have loved this game at that age! He is all about some animals and their sounds!
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Happy Spooky Season! I can’t wait to see how you use these eggs with your kiddos! 🙂 Be sure to tag me on Instagram so I can see all of your fun activities!
Be on the lookout for HOLIDAY themed resources in my TPT store! Holidays and learning are my JAM! 🙂
For the month of October, you might also like:
- Candy Corn Counting Numbers to 20
- Trick or Treat Gift Tags
- FREE October Wallpaper
- How to Catch a Monster (pairs great with this book!)
- How to Scare a Ghost (pairs great with this book!)
- What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween? (pairs great with any Halloween read aloud or as a stand-alone fun activity!)
- You’ve Been BOOed
Do you have any other fun ideas for how to use these learning eggs? Let me know below!
XO,
Megan