Halloween Counting Book for Preschoolers
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This FREE Halloween Counting Book is the perfect hands-on math activity for your preschoolers in the classroom or at home. It is also fun, engaging, and practical, helping your children practice their counting abilities, fine motor development, hand-eye coordination and control, concentration, and language development.
The book contains fourteen half pages: a cover, one half page for each number from one to twelve, and an end page. You can get it at the end of this post.
Halloween Counting Book
Each half page of this Halloween Counting Book shows the phrase “How many…” at the top, with different Halloween images. Children should count the pictures on each page aloud, then write the dotted phrase at the bottom.
The phrases included in the book are:
- How many bats? One bat.
- How many candles? Two candles.
- How many cats? Three cats.
- How many ghosts? Four ghosts.
- How many houses? Five houses.
- How many owls? Six owls.
- How many potions? Seven potions.
- How many pumpkins? Eight pumpkins.
- How many skeletons? Nine skeletons.
- How many spiders? Ten spiders.
- How many trees? Eleven trees.
- How many witches? Twelve witches.
How to Prepare the Halloween Counting Book
This book requires very little prep work. You will only need:
- The Halloween Counting Book is found at the end of this post.
- A printer.
- White paper.
- Scissors.
- Stapler and Staples.
To prepare it, print one book for each child on white paper. When they finish the activity, cut each page in half to separate the book pages, and use a stapler to put the books together, then send them home.
How to Use the Halloween Counting Book
The Halloween Counting Book can be used in many ways, such as:
- Small group activity.
- Math center option.
- Writing center option.
- Take-home activity.
- Quiet area option.
Invite each child to identify the image on each page. Then point to and count the pictures out loud, one page at a time. Trace the phrase in dotted lines. Finally, practice reading the words on each page, “How many……”.
You can also print several copies on white cardstock, cut the pages out, and laminate them for durability. Then place the books you made in different centers. That way, you will entice and encourage your preschoolers to use them to practice their counting and talk about the graphics as they rotate through the different centers.
Extension Activities:
These are some of the activities you can do using this book:
- Discuss the attributes, similarities, and differences among the pictures on each page.
- Have them organize the pages in numerical order before stapling.
- Have them use counters to match the number of images on each page.
- Have them identify the first letter and/or sound of each image.
- Have them find other words that start with the same letter and/or sound as each image.
You can use the book during circle time to:
- Talk about each number and the different characteristics of the shape of the numbers.
- Talk about small and large numbers: Number 2 has fewer images than number 5 because it is smaller.
Halloween Storybooks
These are some of the books you can use during this time. You can find them at your local library, in a used bookstore, and on Amazon. If you click on the titles, my affiliate links will take you directly to the Amazon page, where you can purchase your favorites.
- Noelle and the Haunted House: A Children’s Halloween Book by Mikaela Wilson is the perfect book to showcase children using their creative thinking and ingenuity to design and implement their own Halloween fun. It encourages creativity and mental development, fosters resourcefulness and imagination, and promotes ownership and follow-through of a project.
- The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills. Count from One Spooky Bus to Ten Goofy Ghosts as this Halloween ride races through town, picking up a few unsuspecting passengers! Eye-catching art and a bouncy countdown rhyme will make this a read-aloud favorite!
- The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing. Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book?
- Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell. This gentle story and beautifully detailed illustrations give an intimate look at the life cycle of a pumpkin named Jack as it begins to rot after Halloween. Tim sets it out in the garden and watches it change.
- Corduroy’s Best Halloween Ever! by Don Freeman. Halloween is almost here, and Corduroy is going to have a party. He and his friends will carve a jack-o’-lantern, bob for apples, and go trick-or-treating! But there is one problem: Corduroy needs to choose a costume. What will he wear?
Pin It for Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable, but want to save it for later, pin it to your Math and Halloween Pinterest boards so you can have it available when you need it.
I hope your students enjoy this Halloween Counting Book and that it helps them learn or review their numbers and counting skills!
Don’t forget to grab your FREE book by clicking on the link below.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.D. Please let me know if you find this book helpful. My goal is to help you in any way I can.
