3rd Grade Halloween Games (by date, oldest first)

These candy corn sight word cards make a fun fall literacy center or Halloween sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the third grade word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own candy corn card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

This product is also available in the following bundle:

Candy Corn Sight Words All 220

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 201-300 sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all Fry sight words 201-300:

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this third grade word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Where is the black cat? This pumpkin themed sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the third grade sight word list.
• black cat cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Black Cat is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a cat is hidden behind a pumpkin. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the cat is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the cat is behind the pumpkin, then the cat must be hidden again to play further. If the cat is not behind the pumpkin, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Where is the worm? This apple sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the third grade sight word list.
• Worm cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Worm is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an worm is hidden behind an apple. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the worm is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the worm is behind the apple, then the worm must be hidden again to play further. If the worm is not behind the apple, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Where is the black cat? This pumpkin themed sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for all 220 sight words.
• black cat cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Black Cat is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a cat is hidden behind a pumpkin. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the cat is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the cat is behind the pumpkin, then the cat must be hidden again to play further. If the cat is not behind the pumpkin, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer through third grade word list, for a total of 220 sight word cards for each theme.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

This product contains all 220 sight words:

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 1-300 word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys. (coming soon)

This product contains all of Fry's first 300 sight words:

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the third grade word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

These candy corn sight word cards make a fun fall literacy center or Halloween sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer through third grade word list for a total of 220 sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own candy corn card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This bundle includes the following products:

Preprimer Sight Word Cards with Candy Corn

Primer Sight Word Cards with Candy Corn

First Grade Sight Word Cards with Candy Corn

Second Grade Sight Word Cards with Candy Corn

Third Grade Sight Word Cards with Candy Corn

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer to third grade sight word lists, for a total of 220 sight words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 201-300 word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys. (coming soon)

This product contains all of Fry's third 100 sight words:

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 1-300 sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all Fry sight words 1-300:

Where is the worm? This apple sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for all 220 sight words.
• Worm cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Worm is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an worm is hidden behind an apple. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the worm is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the worm is behind the apple, then the worm must be hidden again to play further. If the worm is not behind the apple, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Create some Halloween excitement with this fun Halloween Think Fast Writing Game! Perfect for 1st-3rd grade, this quick-paced activity helps students brainstorm Halloween-themed words while practicing critical thinking and writing skills. Great for classroom centers, early finishers, or as a Halloween party game!

✨First Grade Literacy Bundle✨

What's Included

Halloween Think Fast Game: 1 PDF Printable

Directions

• A timer will be set for 1 minute total.

• Each answer is one point. Most points wins!

• Examples: 1 food that is orange, 1 thing in a trick-or-treat bag, 1 thing a witch might have

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Third Grade Sight Words & Sentences

This Halloween Think Fast Game is a fun and engaging activity designed to encourage quick thinking and creativity among students. Perfect for classroom Halloween parties or as a time-filler, this game will have students racing to name items in categories like costumes, candy, spooky sounds, and more. Suitable for a range of grade levels, it can be a great addition to your Halloween lesson plans or party-planning resources!

✨AVID Halloween Bundle✨

✨ELA Fall Bundle✨

What's Included

Halloween Think Fast Game: 1 PDF Printable

Directions

• A timer will be set for 1 minute total.

• Each answer is one point. Most points wins!

• Examples: 3 things you find in a haunted house, 3 things a witch might have, 3 classic Halloween monsters

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This Halloween-themed Spanish vocabulary game is perfect for practicing quick thinking and Spanish fluency. Students will have 1 minute to come up with answers to fun prompts like Halloween costumes, animals, and foods. This Spanish Think Fast activity is ideal for classroom warm-ups, brain breaks, or holiday-themed lessons!

✨Spanish Growing Bundle✨

What's Included

Halloween Think Fast Game: 1 PDF Printable

Directions

• A timer will be set for 1 minute total.

• Each answer is one point. Most points wins!

• Examples: 3 things that are orange, 3 things a witch might have, 3 Halloween animals

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Halloween Coloring Pages

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Challenge your students during the Autumn season with this engaging team-building icebreaker activity! Students will use this digital resource to decipher some of the most commonly spoken fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving-themed phrases shown in a series of picture characters. Some emojis can be combined without the use of words to create a new word or phrase! For example, a pumpkin emoji that is combined with a pie emoji translates to "pumpkin pie."

✨Primary Fall Games Bundle✨

✨Secondary Fall Games Bundle✨

Directions:

• Name the Emoji Phrase is a very loosely structured game so setup will be determined by how you want to play.
• Consider splitting the class into teams and providing a buzzer OR creating 2 lines and having the first 2 players of each line compete against each other.
• The team that guesses the phrase first gets the point.
• The team that has the most points at the end of all the slides is the winner.

What's Included:

30 Emoji picture guessing slides

30 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)

Editable templates

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Finish the Story
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Click HERE to see our other emoji picture phrase games!

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*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

Engage your students with this Zoomed In Halloween Game! Students will use critical thinking and observation skills to identify spooky, zoomed in images — perfect for brain breaks, Halloween class parties, morning meetings, icebreakers, and Fun Friday activities, and community building. This no-prep game is perfect for kindergarten through fourth grade students, who will love guessing these Halloween mystery images.

✨Save 30% with the Halloween Mega Bundle!✨

**✨**Save 30% with the year long Zoomed In Bundle!✨

What's Included:

• 25 zoomed-in mystery pictures
• 25 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable Google Slides template to customize your own zoomed in images
• directions slide

Some pictures you will see:

• candy wrapper
• glow sticks
• witch's hat

More Halloween Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

Would You Rather

Lines of Symmetry

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After Fall Break Resources:

After Fall Break Icebreaker Bundle

Find Someone Who

Stand Up Sit Down

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

Looking for an exciting way to boost Spanish vocabulary? This Halloween-themed zoomed-in game is perfect for Spanish learners from kindergarten through fifth grade. Whether used for brain breaks, morning meetings, icebreakers, Fun Friday activities, or language centers, it's a fantastic way to engage students. They'll have a blast guessing these spooky Halloween images!

⭐Save 30% with the Spanish Activities Mega Growing Bundle!⭐

What's Included:

• 25 zoomed-in mystery pictures
• 25 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

Some pictures you will see:

• candy wrapper
• glow sticks
• witch's hat

More Fall Resources:

Would You Rather

Zoomed In Mystery Pictures

After Fall Break Resources:

After Fall Break Icebreaker Bundle

Find Someone Who

Stand Up Sit Down

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.