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Halloween Treat Bag Toppers

These cute toppers are free when you sign up for my newsletter. They’re super flexible depending on how much time and money you have to spend. You can use a snack size bag for a smaller budget or a sandwich bag if you want to give more candy. The cost will also vary based on the type of candy you use so you can be budget friendly with your treats.

These treat bags are snack size with Halloween Hershey Kisses, candy corns, and Tootsie Roll pops but you can use whatever candy you’d like. Orange Jelly Pumpkin Candy would be fun and delicious too!

These would look cute with Halloween mini erasers too. If you don’t want to make one for each student in your class, you can always make a couple and use them as prizes for your Halloween games or as classroom rewards.

Halloween Homework Passes

Students are so busy with after school activities and it’s sometimes a challenge to finish homework. That’s why homework passes are a great option for a Halloween “treat”. Simply fill out the student’s name and your name on the homework pass and give them out for Halloween. Make sure students understand how they can be used. For example, I let students use them for any homework assignment but they couldn’t use it for classwork, quizzes, or exams. I also told them to keep track of it because I wouldn’t issue new passes for lost ones.

If you’re looking for something easy to use, try these Halloween editable labels in my TpT store. There are 4 different sizes and 7 different designs to choose from and they’re editable making it easy to customize for your class.

Halloween Candy Bar Wrappers

These are really fun because everyone loves getting a full size candy bar as a treat! Using Halloween candy bar wrappers is an easy way to take a regular Hershey Bar and turn it into a personalized gift. You can buy big packages of Hershey bars at Costco, Sam’s Club or even at Amazon to help save on the cost. If you have PowerPoint then it’s easy to personalize with your name and your students’ names. You can use your favorite fonts and even use different colors to match the wrappers. Make for your students or as class prizes for Halloween games. They also make great gifts for co-workers.

Halloween Goody Bags

Halloween goody bags are great because you can fill them with anything you want. Having choices means you can manage how much you spend on the goodies inside. Halloween candy, toys, pencil top erasers, stickers, stamps, temporary tattoos, and pencils are all great options for filling your goody bags. I like these goody bags because they have a drawstring to keep all the goodies inside and they come in super cute designs for Halloween. Plus, with 72 bags, you can use them for more than one year making them budget friendly.

Halloween Cupcake Toppers

Everyone loves cupcakes but they can get a little pricey sometimes. I love these adorable cupcake toppers because it’s an easy way to dress up plain cupcakes. Bake your own or buy them at the store – it’s totally flexible. We have food sensitivities in our home so these are perfect for that. I can bake my allergy friendly cupcakes then add these toppers to make them more festive.

These are perfect for classroom Halloween parties. We’re going to use them for my daughter’s Halloween Dance at school.

I hope you find these suggestions helpful for easy Halloween “treats” for your students. Happy Halloween!

$5 Ways to Celebrate Halloween in Your Math Class$ This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Halloween is always full of excitement for your students. They dress in costumes and collect loads of candy from their neighbors and friends. What kid wouldn’t love that?

As a teacher, it’s a challenge to keep your students focused. This year, why not try some new Halloween themed math resources. They’ll have so much fun that they’ll forget they’re doing math!

5 Ways to Celebrate Halloween in Your Math Class

1. Games for Fun

There’s a time and place for games that are just for fun. If you feel like your students will be distracted with lots of Halloween treats and parent volunteers moving around the room, it might not be the best time to work on something academic.

One of my favorite games is Halloween Bingo. Kids love playing bingo and it’s something that can take 10 minutes or an hour making it super flexible. If you use black and white game boards you can even have your students color the game boards beforehand making it more personal.

I also love using holiday themed markers for the game boards. Halloween Hershey Kisses (affiliate link), candy corns (affiliate link), or Halloween mini erasers (affiliate link) would all make great bingo board markers.

2. Games with Math

If you have 30-60 minutes of class time and want to do something fun with your class but don’t want to waste valuable instruction time, why not try an interactive game of Jeopardy.

Jeopardy is great because you can involve the whole class using teams. Students learn to work with others and they get lots of practice working on different math problems. Because the questions are editable, you can customize for your class. Some teachers even ask students to write a second set of questions and answers to play the game again. So much fun!

Here are some Halloween themed Jeopardy games that your students might enjoy.

3. Differentiated Math Worksheets

Worksheets are great because they can be used the whole month of October leading up to Halloween. They are super versatile and can be used for so many things like Halloween themed math centers, homework, October morning work, review, sub plans or early finishers. They’re a great way to spiral math topics that you think your students might need a little more work on.

Differentiated worksheets can be super helpful because you can differentiate by student or class. With these Halloween worksheets pictured here, there are 4 different levels going from easiest (level 1) to hardest (word problems). To differentiate by student, you can assign each of the 4 different worksheets depending on the student’s ability. To differentiate by class, you could assign level 1 as classwork, level 2 as homework, level 3 as extra credit, then save the word problems for math centers.

4. Digital Task Cards

Digital Task Cards are nice because they are self paced. Students can take as much or as little time as possible. Because they’re self grading, students can also learn from their mistakes. They’re great for teachers because there’s little prep and the grading is automatic.

They’re also super versatile. If students have access to their own technology (laptop, desktop, Chromebook, tablet, or any other mobile device that can access the internet) they can work independently. If not, digital task cards can also be played with the whole class on a Smart Board. They’re totally flexible.

I’m a huge fan of Boom Cards but there are lots of other options for digital resources.

5. Printable Task Cards

Printable task cards are always fun for the holidays. You can play scoot or around the room with them. For scoot, each desk has a different task card and students scoot from one desk to the next answering questions. For around the room, you tape the task cards all over your classroom similar to a scavenger hunt. Students roam the room looking for the task cards and answer the questions on their recording sheets. Students always love getting out of their chairs for math!

Task cards are also great for math centers. You could set up 6 centers with 6 task cards each and students can travel from center to center. Students can work alone or with a partner so they’re very flexible.

I hope you enjoyed these suggestions for 5 ways to celebrate Halloween in your math class.

You might also be interested in Easy Halloween Treats for Your Students.

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