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October seems to be the month when kids are excited about everything – pumpkins, costumes, candy, and all things Halloween. That excitement can make learning extra fun, but it can also make keeping everyone focused a little tricky!
To help you out during this fun and crazy month, I put together Free October Activities for Pre-K and Kindergarten. It gives you a coordinated week of playful literacy, phonics, math, fine motor, and discussion activities.
Inside, you’ll find seven October activities you can use during whole group, centers, small groups, morning work, or homeschool lessons. I also included a simple planning guide to show you how the activities can fit together throughout the week.
⭐ DOWNLOAD THE FREE OCTOBER MINI PACK
🎃 What’s Included in the Free October Mini Pack?
Included with your free download, you will get:
- Halloween pocket chart poem
- Jack-o-Lantern craft
- October color by codes
- October math mats
- Halloween themed pattern cards
- October Phonics Activities
- October would you rather questions
- A sample weekly planning guide
You don’t have to use every activity or complete them in a particular order.
Choose one activity a day, add a few to your center rotation, or follow the sample planning guide for a coordinated week of October learning.
1. Halloween Pocket Chart
This Halloween pocket chart poem is a fun way to bring shared reading, fluency, sequencing, and concepts of print into your October lesson plans.
2. Jack-o-Lantern Craft
What would October be without a fun and simple craft to hang on the wall!
Your kiddos will tear construction paper and glue the pieces inside the template. It’s a simple October craft that strengthens fine motor skills and makes and adorable display!
3. October Color by Codes
These October Color by Codes will give your kids independent practice with early literacy and math skills. They’re easy to use for morning work, centers, early finishers, review, or homeschool lessons—and answer keys are included.
4. October Math Mats
Kids count the pictures, fill the ten frame, trace and write the number, and find it on the number line.
The free pack includes numbers 1–5 with two levels of support, making these reusable mats perfect for centers, small groups, or intervention.
5. October Pattern Cards
Kids can use pom-poms, counters, counting bears, buttons, or cubes to recreate the AB, AAB, and ABB patterns. These hands-on cards build pattern recognition, sorting, visual discrimination, and fine motor skills.
6. October Phonics Activities
The October Phonics Pack sample includes letter identification and beginning-sound practice. Use the pages during literacy centers, small groups, morning work, or as a quick check of the phonics skills your kids are working on.
7. October Would You Rather Questions
Use these fun October questions during morning meeting, circle time, transitions, or dismissal. Kids choose an answer and explain why, building speaking, listening, reasoning, and vocabulary skills along the way.
👻 One Simple Week of October Learning
Here’s what makes this free pack a little different.
These aren’t just 7 random October printables.
They’re designed to work together.
Start the day with the Halloween poem and a Would You Rather Question. Use the alphabet or beginning sounds during literacy time. Add Math Mats and Color by Codes to your math centers. Then wrap up your fall and Halloween lessons with monster shapes and a pumpkin craft.
You can use one activity a day or add them to the center rotations and routines you already have. No complicated schedule.
Just simple, coordinated activities that make October planning easier.
🎃 Get the Free October Mini Pack
Ready to make October planning a little easier?
Grab the Free October Mini Pack and get a coordinated mix of literacy, math, writing, poetry, and hands-on activities for your Pre-K or Kindergarten learners.
👻 More Themed Resources
The Free October Mini Pack gives you a peek at how much easier planning can feel when your resources actually work together.
Inside the Little Learning Corner Membership, you get an entire month of coordinated literacy, math, writing, centers, poems, crafts, Math Talks, and seasonal activities.
It’s not a rigid curriculum. Pick and choose what works for your learners and your classroom.
The goal is simply to make themed planning easier — without spending hours searching for activities.