This game helps to promote number sense in preschool children. Provide children with a bowl filled with candy corn and a die. One at a time, children roll the die; whatever number the children roll represents how many pieces of candy they should collect. At the end of a specified time period, children count up their pieces of candy corn and the child who collected the most pieces wins (though all players win, as they are learning math and are able to eat the candy corn at the end of the game).
Players must identify numbers printed on witch's hats in this noncompetitive math game. Turn orange cones into witch's hats by wrapping them with black paper. Print a number on the front of each of the hats with white chalk. Set the cones out in a straight line and provide children with a hula hoop. One at a time, children try to toss their hula hoops onto the hats, and upon landing a hoop onto a hat, they must say the number printed on it.
Halloween-shaped confetti is used to create patterns in this activity. Purchase Halloween-shaped confetti from a party supply store -- this confetti may consist of small cut outs of witches hats, pumpkins and black cats and is typically used as an accessory for a Halloween party. On pieces of paper, write out a letter pattern for children to use as a guideline -- ABAB or ABBABB, for example. Provide children with the confetti and the letter patterns. Instruct them to select confetti shapes to represent each of the letters in the given patterns; pumpkins for A and cats for B perhaps. Instruct them to recreate the patterns on the paper using the confetti; the first child to recreate the patterns on his paper wins.
Children sort through Halloween treats in this game. Fill two large bowls with a variety of different types of Halloween treats; small bags of pretzels, apples, small bags of popcorn and chocolate bars, for example. Divide your class into two teams and give each team a bowl. On your signal, the teams sort through the treats in their bowls and place them into separate piles: pretzels with pretzels, apples with apples, popcorn with popcorn and chocolate bars with chocolate bars. The first team to correctly sort all of the treats wins the game. Divide the treats up so that all players may enjoy them at snack time, or allow the children to take them home.