Storytime Theme: Halloween
Celebrate this fun holiday full of costumes, tricks, treats, and more with these great read alouds, songs, rhymes, flannel boards, and crafts. This was one of the easier lesson plans to pull together just because there are so many options available!
With so many choices, you can easily make this lesson plan stretch out over a week or even longer if you want! Choose different books and activities every day for a Halloween-holiday specific storytime or choose to highlight different parts of the holiday like trick-or-treating, spiders, witches, monsters, bats, and pumpkins.
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Storytime Theme: Halloween
Books
- AlphaOops! H is for Halloween by Alethea Kontis, illustrated by Bob Kolar
- Don’t Push the Button! A Halloween Treat by Bill Cotter
- Find Spot at the Halloween Party by Eric Hill
- Halloween Is Coming! by Cal Everett, illustrated by Lenny Wen
- Little Blue Truck’s Halloween by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry
- Maisy’s Halloween by Lucy Cousins
- Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson, illustrated by Buket Erdogan
- Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming
- 10 Trick-or-Treaters: A Halloween Counting Book by Janet Schulman, illustrated by Linda Davick
Songs & Rhymes
- Five Little Pumpkins – Storytime Katie
- Mouse’s Halloween House – Jen in the Library
- If You’re a Monster and You Know It – Literary Hoots
Crafts & Activities
- Masking Tape Mummies – No Time for Flashcards
- Paper Plate Bat – A Dab of Glue Will Do
- Mason Jar Lid Spiders – Fireflies and Mudpies
