Halloween Candy Sorting Mats | Visual Discrimination Matching | SLP SPED Autism
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Product Description
Build sorting, matching, and visual discrimination skills with these hands-on Halloween Candy Sorting Mats — a simple, motivating Halloween-themed sorting activity. Students sort Halloween candy onto the matching character mat. Perfect for independent work stations, morning work binders, centers, and small groups.
📦 What's Included
- 10 Halloween-themed sorting mats: Black Cat, Candy Corn, Frankenstein, Witch, Vampire, Ghost, Jack-o'-Lantern, Skeleton, Mummy, and Monster
- Students sort Halloween candy onto the matching mat
🎯 Skills Targeted
- Sorting and classification
- Matching
- Visual discrimination
- One-to-one correspondence
- Halloween vocabulary
- Fine motor skills
- Following directions
- Independent work stamina
- Attending to a task
📚 How to Use
- Set up at an independent work station or center for sorting practice
- Use as morning work binder pages for a grab-and-go activity
- Use in small group or 1:1 to introduce sorting and matching
- Place in task boxes (TEACCH-style) for structured independent work
- Differentiate by giving fewer mats/pieces to beginners and more to advanced students
- Use as a morning tub or early finisher activity during October
💛 Perfect For
- Special education classrooms (SPED)
- Autism classrooms and ABA programs
- Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
- Speech-language therapy (vocabulary and categories)
- Occupational therapy (fine motor sorting)
- Independent work stations and task boxes
- Halloween and October units
- Early childhood and ECSE
- Early intervention
- Homeschool hands-on learning
🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource
- Simple, accessible sorting for early and developing learners
- 10 Halloween mats for plenty of sorting practice
- Multiple formats — center, morning binder, task box, or small group
- Built-in differentiation by number of mats/pieces
- Self-correcting matching builds independence
- Reusable year after year once laminated
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