Halloween and Night Garden Activity Pack – Years 3 to 4

A 55-page PDF pack for Years 3 and 4, with an original friendly shadow mystery, English and maths activities, two complete games, four colouring sheets and three paper crafts. Use Halloween or an imaginative night-garden theme; participation is optional.

What's included

• Colour table of contents with accurate page references.
• Two teacher-guide pages covering materials, supported/core/stretch routes, games, making and optional participation.
• Context vocabulary and word building with base words, prefixes and suffixes.
• The shadow on the wall: an original two-part illustrated story, literal comprehension and inference supported by story evidence.
• Joining ideas with and, but and because; sentence editing; a friendly-mystery plan, drafting page and continuation/revision page.
• Planning and composing a real paper-garden notice, plus a notice/test/learn explanation task with speaking, listening and private or written alternatives.
• Equal-group multiplication and division with an inverse check; equal-part fractions and one-half equivalence; repeated number rules and symmetry.
• Paired area/perimeter grids, a fictional afternoon schedule, a fictional votes table and a blank graph with two votes per row.
• Build a row: a large board, 18 multiplication/division fact cards, complete rules, a worked turn, support and a cooperative route.
• Clue-chain dominoes: six large definition/word tiles, a START strip, full play/finish rules, a worked turn and face-up support.
• Four distinct full-page, untitled blackline colouring compositions.
• Three different cut-and-make crafts: a two-panel owl cross-stand, a fold-and-reveal garden card and a four-link paper chain, each with complete components and illustrated steps.
• A collaborative kind-ideas leaf display, a unique-answer mobile puzzle and an optional drawing/reasoning reflection.
• Five page-referenced answer/check pages, with objective answers, evidence models and open-response/design checks.

Learning focus

Vocabulary and word building; literal and inferential comprehension; sentence connections and editing; narrative paragraphs, authentic notices and explanations; multiplication/division, fractions, number rules, symmetry, area/perimeter, elapsed time and fictional data.

Classroom use

Select activities to match learners. Read the story together and support responses through drawing, oral language, a scribe, a partner or adult help. Extend with story evidence, coherent paragraphs, clear causal sentences, inverse checks and mathematical explanations.

The pack supports selected English and mathematics skills for Years 3–4. It is a flexible activity collection, rather than a full curriculum program. Students may choose another calm theme, keep work private or pass on optional sharing and display.

Games use ordinary counters. Crafts use paper or thin card, pencils, scissors and tape; the owl stand needs firm card. An adult helps with cutting, especially the slots. Keep walkways clear and check taped joins. No costumes, sweets, food handling, flames, lights, purchases or family disclosures are required.

Teacher benefits

Page references, generous response space, complete game components, illustrated craft steps and objective/open-response checks support flexible selection and facilitation.

Files and format

The teaching content is one unmarked, 55-page PDF: Halloween Years 3 to 4 Activity Pack.pdf. The page count includes the colour contents page, two teacher guides and five answer/check pages. All teaching pages use A4 portrait. This pack does not contain editable classroom slides.

Ordinary student activities are blackline on white. The original illustrated story and supplied contents page use colour. The separately watermarked preview is for review and is not extra teaching content.

Digital PDF download. No physical item is included.