It’s the spookiest time of year! The weeks leading up to Halloween (or any time you want to study ghosts) are a great time to engage students in some spooky learning. Choose some of our ghost templates to inspire storytelling, poetry, scary math, and more. We’ve included ideas that are perfect for Halloween and still fun long after the last Halloween candy has been eaten.
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Large Ghost Templates
Ghost decorations
Cover ghosts in tissue paper or cotton and add eyes and a mouth. Use ribbon or string to hang the ghosts around your room.
Fa-boo-lous class bulletin board
Each student chooses and decorates a ghost to represent themselves. Create a bulletin board with the class ghosts to show everyone how fa-boo-lous you are.
Large Ghost Templates With Writing Lines
Ghost biography
Choose one person from the past and create a ghost biography of them. What would that person want us to know about them? What advice would they have for us from the grave?
Ghost poetry
Use the outline of a ghost or the inside lines to write a spooky ghost-inspired poem. Here are lots of Halloween poems for kids for inspiration.
Ghost story
Write a silly ghost story. For example, imagine that a ghost is going out for Halloween. What would it dress up as? Write the story and decorate the ghost in their new Halloween costume.
Medium Ghost Templates
Going on a ghost hunt
Create a math scavenger hunt by writing a math problem on one ghost, then write the solution to the first problem and a new problem on the next ghost. Put the ghosts around the room and have students move from ghost to ghost by solving problems.
Solve Halloween math problems
Write a Halloween math problem on one side of the ghost and have students solve it on the other side. After they solve their math problem, they can pass their ghost on to have a peer check their work. Use these again and again by writing the math problem on each ghost, then laminating them so students can solve each problem with markers.
Medium Ghost Templates With Writing Lines
Ghost jokes
Write a spooky joke on one side of the template and the answer on the other. Then, create an interactive bulletin board with jokes, or ask and answer ghost jokes during a brain break.
Spooky retell
Tell students a spooky story, or read a Halloween book aloud to them, and have them retell the story using a ghost template.
Printable Page of Small Ghosts
Ghost letter
Teach silent letter patterns like “kn” (know), “wr” (wren), “mb” (comb), and “bt” (debt) using ghosts to show which letters we don’t hear.
Create matching games
Create pairs of ghosts using letters, sight words, math problems and solutions, or whatever you’re working on. Then, students can play Memory with the ghosts.
Ghost graphing
Print and cut out ghosts to use in graphing activities. Students add their ghost to create pictographs or bar graphs about their favorite Halloween candy, whether they like to be scared or not, or if they believe that ghosts are real.
Printable Page of Tiny Ghosts
Ghosts vs. bats
Use the ghosts for the red pieces in a checkers game. The black game pieces are “bats,” and the white ghosts play against the bats.
Ghost bingo markers
Print, cut, and laminate these ghosts to use as bingo chips.
Ghost ten-frames
Print, cut, and laminate these ghosts to model and practice ten-frame activities.
Ghosts in Different Shapes and Sizes
Finger puppets
Have students cut out and decorate ghosts in different sizes. Then, use the ghosts to tell ghost stories. How many ghost characters can students create?
Decorate Halloween bags
These ghosts are perfect for students to cut out and decorate trick-or-treat bags for Halloween night.
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