Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort SEL Activity for October

Inside: Use this Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort to help students determine what is kind and what is not during this sel center activity, perfect for October.

Even though my kids are older now, they still look forward to Halloween each year.

So we go big and decorate the house, we go big on Halloween costumes, we get ready to trick or treat and we make fun crafts like these milk bottle ghosts.

Halloween is such a fun time for kids so it’s a great way to sneak in some learning. Which means it’s the perfect time to intentionally teach kindness and social emotional learning skills. There are lots of resources to teach kindness during October but one of our favorites is when we gamify it with this Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort.

Other Halloween Kindness Activities:

We have tons of Halloween-themed kindness activities that will help you teach social emotional learning.

Countdown to Halloween with this Kindness Paperchain

Encourage kindness with this positive reinforcement Kindness Pumpkin Challenge.

Get everything you need in one place to focus on kindness this Halloween with this Halloween Kindness Bundle.

Use these Halloween Kindness Role Playing Cards to practice being kind on Halloween.

Spread kindness this Halloween by making these Halloween handprint crafts and gifting some of these to a local retirement home or nursing home.

Give out candy and kindness to the trick or treaters with this Halloween Kindness notes.

Read about all the ways to be kind on Halloween with this Halloween Kindness Emergent Reader.

And we play our Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort Game.

What’s Included in the Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort Activity

24 ghosts with kindness or unkindness clipart in color
24 ghosts with kindness or unkindness clipart in black and white
Kind and Unkind sorting haunted houses in color and black and white
Kindness worksheet to help kids show what they know and determine what is kind and what is not kind in color and black and white
2 writing sheets: 1 for early writers/prewriters and 1 for writers.

How to Use this Halloween Kind or Unkind Sort

1. Purchase and download the kindness leaves activity.

2. Print the ghosts in color or black and white on cardstock.

3. If you print them in black and white, color the ghosts in.

Make sure to use skin color crayons like these so the clipart showcases diverse students.

4. Cut apart the ghosts and laminate them for durability.

5. Go over the pictures on the cards to ensure children understand what the picture depicts. You can use these as discussion starters before or after the activity.

6. The students will sort the cards by kind actions or unkind actions by placing the cards near the correct haunted house.

They can do this in small groups during centers, independently, or you can do it as a whole group in a pocket chart.

If there are too many cards, you can only give students half the cards at once, so they are more successful.

7. To follow up the activity, students can complete the Kind or Unkind worksheet to show their understanding.

Students will cross off or circle the actions on the worksheet. If you use black and white version, students can color in the images that are kind and x off the images that are unkind.

8. To connect this sel curriculum to writing skills, students can draw a picture/write how they will choose to be kind this Halloween. If students are prewriters, they can dictate their answer and draw a picture.