Halloween Printables

From LoveToKnow Kids

Help your little goblin get into the spooky spirit of the season with Halloween printables.

Celebrating Halloween

How do you celebrate Halloween? Are you one of those families who throw together a costume the night before Halloween, forget to carve the pumpkin, and buy a few bags of candy at the last minute? Or, perhaps you love the holiday so much that you start decorating weeks before the ghoulish night arrives. You fill the house with witches, black cats, and goblins, and you carve pumpkins until you drop! Maybe you search all year for the perfect Halloween costume, and buy several just because you can't make up your mind!

No matter how you celebrate Halloween, your kids probably love every aspect of it, from searching for the best costume to trick-or-treating. Help your kids get into the spirit of this favorite time of the year with some fun Halloween printables. Spend an afternoon or evening encouraging their creative side. There are lots of printables available online, and many of these are free!

Halloween Printables Online

The following sites will get you started. If you have a favorite Halloween printables site you'd like to share with our readers, please do so in the comments section of this article. We'd love to know!

FamilyFun.com-If you haven't checked out the magazine Family Fun, you are in for a treat. With lots of great crafts and activities, including instructions, and plenty of information on fun vacation spots, this magazine is chocked full of, well…family fun! Don't just subscribe to the magazine, however. This site has lots of great Halloween activities, including games, activities, and lots of printables, and the best part is it's free!
ABC Teach-Whether you are a teacher or a parent, you'll love the selection of printables found at this site. Print out a Halloween themed board game that reinforces letter sounds. If you need to decorate a bulletin board, choose from Halloween alphabet letter patterns or spooky bats border paper. Choose from lots of ghoulish activities, such as "scary similes word search", "Halloween story starters", "Halloween word scrambles", recipes, and crafts.
Activity Village-You'll be amazed at the amount of printables and other Halloween themed activities and suggestions found at this site. Choose from invitations, coloring pages, worksheets, posters, writing outlines, puzzles, mazes, mask patterns, and more. You can also find three printable Halloween games—Bingo, Concentration, and Halloween Ghostie.
Family Education-If you are searching for some fun Halloween ideas, look no further than this site. Here you'll find instructions for making numerous masks, including a pumpkin, a mouse, a lion, or an original ghoul. Create and give printable Halloween invitations that you can make from directions found at this site as well. How about playing "Pin the Stem on the Pumpkin"? You'll find the printable for this game on this site, too.
PrintActivities.com-This mega site has lots of fun crafts and activities like word search and dot-to-dot puzzles, Halloween mazes, and coloring pages. There are also links to other fun websites that are full of printables as well.
MomsBreak.com-Are you planning on hosting a Halloween party for all the ghouls and goblins in your neighborhood? If so, check out this great site! Moms Break can help you plan a party that won't break the bank. Their Halloween printables are free and kid friendly. You'll find games, invitations and cards (many of which are in jpg image format that can be personalized), clipart, and lots of other great ideas.