Free Printable Halloween Board Game for Preschoolers

This free printable Halloween board game is a great way for older toddlers, preschoolers, and even kindergarteners to practice their skills while having fun! This Halloween board game for preschoolers is fast and easy to set up plus it comes with a free printable die and gross motor cube inserts. Grab your free printable Halloween board game today!

This printable board game is fun at home or in the classroom. It makes a gerat circle time activity and can even be used as a party game for an October birthday party of fall Harvest celebration.

A preview of three pages of printable Halloween board game for young children. In the center is the board game. To the left is a printable die with Halloween images instead of numbers. To the right is a page with inserts for a gross motor cube.

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The benefits of board games for preschoolers

Playing board games regularly has many befits for your child. Benefits include practice with:

Following instructions
Taking turns
Emotional regulation
Fine motor skills
Gross motor skills, when you use a differentiated instruction cube
Picture matching (this is an important pre-reading skill)
Hand-eye coordination

How to print & play

This Halloween game is quick and easy to set up. You’ll be playing just a few minutes from now!

Materials needed

You don’t need much to print and use this game:

Printer with ink & paper
Printable PDF
Scissors or paper trimmer
Tape and glue, for printable die
Plastic chips, nature treasures, etc. to use as game markers
Differentiated instruction cube, optional
Laminator or heavy duty page protector, optional but recommended

For best results, use a heavyweight, high quality paper like 32# HP paper or cardstock. The 32# paper is heavier than standard paper, which means it holds up better to repeated use. Cardstock is another option, but images aren’t as bright and vibrant. I used the 32# HP paper for the printables shown in this post. For a side by side comparison of various papers and cardstocks, check out this post on the best paper for printables.

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(Sorry the photos are a little dark – we were on the third day of overcast downpours when I finally gave up and took pictures for this post.)

Two printed pages from a Halloween board game for preschoolers. Pages include the board game and a sheet with differentiated instruction cube inserts with Halloween clip art.

A differentiated instruction cube is optional, but a great way to help your child take a brain break or get their wiggles out. Using a gross motor cube allows your child to get their whole body involved with playing the game.

Gross motor cubes, also called differentiated instruction cubes, are large foam dice with a pocket on each face. They have a wide range of uses in the classroom and can be used with all ages from toddlers through high school.

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If you don’t have a gross motor cube, that’s okay. You can use the printable die template, instead.

How to assemble your Halloween printable game

First, grab your free printable PDF from lower down in the post. The PDF includes three pages: the board game, a printable die, and inserts for a gross motor cube/differentiated instruction cube.

Next, of course, you need to print your pages. Print the board game and either the differentiated instruction cube inserts or printable die.

Laminate the board game or, even easier, slide it into a page protector. I use heavy duty page protectors. They’re thicker and have a tab to keep the page from sliding out. I didn’t show the page protector in the images because it causes a glare that makes photography difficult.

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Use scissors to cut out the die template or a paper trimmer to cut the die inserts.

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A page with six squares with dotted edges. The page is on a paper trimmer to cut the squares out along the lines.

Assemble your die.

For the die template, I recommend using glue to to hold the tabs in place, then tape along the edges to reinforce them.
- I prefer to use Tacky Glue because it’s nontoxic and has a high initial tack. It holds much more firmly than other white glues.
- You may want to cover each face with packing tape if you have an enthusiastic little learner.
For the gross motor cubes, simply slide one card into each face of the cube.

A hand holding a yellow foam gross motor cube with a clipart image of a black cat inserted into the face showing.

Play! Play is easy.

Start ar the starting arrow. You can play as a team or players can have individual tokens.
Roll the die, then move your token to the next matching image.
If there are no matching pictures between your token and the end of the board game path, you’ve completed the game! You or your team has “won,” but you can allow play to continue until everyone has completed the game, if you’d like.

A child's hand placing a plastic chip on a printable board game with Halloween images.

Free printable Halloween board game PDF

The Halloween clipart in these printables is copyright by DigitalArtsi and is used under license. Thank you, Jane, for your beautiful artwork and generous licensing.

As mentioned above, three pages are included in one PDF. This game is available for personal and single classroom use. You’re welcome to use it with your Scouts troop, homeschool co-op, etc. as long as you are personally organizing the activity and not charging specifically to participate.

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I hope your little learner enjoys this free printable Halloween game! Be sure to grab these additional free printables for Halloween:

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