4th and 5th Grade Halloween Activities

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Cook Halloween pasta on All Hallows' Eve. This green pasta with toothy almonds is a super scary and tasty dinner for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

Create a paper jack-o'-lantern from upcycled paper bags and newspapers with this fun Halloween craft project!

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

This Halloween, your child can make her very own jar light that will shine bright throughout the night!

Create some commotion on your table this Halloween with some flying bats that'll be cute enough to cause a ruckus among your little party monsters.

Create a silhouetted Halloween candle holder with this upcycled activity!

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

Spider cupcakes are creepy-crawly treats that are perfect for Halloween. These spider cupcakes make for a great Halloween party treat.

Part food craft, part witchcraft, this is a yummy delight your middle schooler will want to make à and eat!

This zombie cake will give your Halloween enthusiast an excuse to lurch and limp around the kitchen. Share this zombie cake with friends and the undead.