5th Grade Halloween Resources

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

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.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

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.

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

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.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

These Halloween cake pops only have eyes for you. Eat Halloween cake pops this All Hallows' Eve for a spooky treat fit for zombies and friends.

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

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

Halloween's the perfect time for a fun monochromatic art activity -- and a pumpkin's the perfect subject!

Unleash your child's inner Doctor Frankenstein and invite her to create a hybrid monster the world has never seen!

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

Mummy chic or rag-tag retro? Catch the oldest trend in bandaged jewelry!

Let your imaginative child "ghost write" the life (and afterlife) story of a made-up phantom.

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

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

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

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

Here's a black fuzzy spider that's sure to cause a silly fright! This eight-legged creepy crawler is sure to surprise anyone looking for a treat.

Light up the night by making this silhouette candle holder. The silhouettes may cause a bit of a fright, but they'll also help you avoid the monsters.

What happens when an already creepy castle becomes personified with facial features? It becomes super-creepy!

Halloween is the best time of year to read creepy, bewitching stories with your kid. Have your bookworm create some long legs that create a humorous illusion.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.