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Halloween resources

It’s that scary time of the year again where goblins, witches and ghosts come out to play! To get your class in the spooky spirit, we’ve cast a spell over some of our primary resources to give them a Halloween STEM (science, engineering, technology and maths) twist.

Why not try these spooky, curriculum-linked tasks with your students and see if you are in for a trick or treat! Get your students escaping haunted houses, creating shadow puppets, taking part in treasure hunts, figuring out pumpkin pie fractions and more!

And please do share your learning highlights and final creations with us on social media @IETeducation or send them via email to IETEducation@theiet.org to be featured in our online gallery.

Balance the broomstick

This resource will demonstrate how a simple lever works and how it can be balanced with a Halloween theme.

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Make a dancing skeleton

This resource focuses on the names and movement of the bones in the human body.

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Make a flapping bat

Learn the history of Halloween and why bats are an important part of it. Then make a simple mechanism for a flapping bat.

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Make a spider's web

Learn about the history of Halloween and make a spider’s web decoration

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Halloween maze game

Using directions to guide pupils away from the haunted house!

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Make a shadow puppet for Halloween

Making shadow puppets from your favourite Halloween shapes.

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Halloween treasure hunt

Using coordinates, angles and directions to locate pirate treasure on a map.

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Halloween multiplication and division activity

Scaling activity to change the size of Halloween items.

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Pumpkin pie fractions

Understanding fractions through a pumpkin pie cutting approach.

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Halloween STEM activities – Make a sundial

Making a sundial.

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If you liked our Halloween resources, why not give the bonfire night and Autumn ones a try?

Bonfire night

Use science, technology, engineering and maths skills to see if your students can work as a member of Guy Fawkes' crew and achieve the secret mission. 

Write secret messages with invisible ink, crack the safe code by solving maths problems and read reverse writing in a mirror to be hands-on engineers this bonfire night. 

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Autumn resources

From making leaf prints to creating a nature guidebook; you can measure the speed of the wind or make your own rainbow rainfall; use our free and editable resources to engage and inspire in the classroom or outdoors.

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