4th and 5th Grade Halloween Activities

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

Your child will come to better understand symmetry as he create this dramatic black bat mask. It's sure to lend a dark touch to any Halloween costume.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Mummy chic or rag-tag retro? Catch the oldest trend in bandaged jewelry!

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Flip your way into the fall season with this easy and delicious pumpkin pancake recipe that your child can make on weekend mornings!

Young artists will combine two animals into one in this imaginative art-project-slash-game!

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Spiders may be creepy, crawly and sometimes frightening, but not this little fella. He's fun to make and sure will cause a lot of giggling!

Create a dramatic, elegant line drawing of a pumpkin in this white-on-black Halloween art project. 

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.