Halloween Work Tasks & Task Boxes | Visual Discrimination | SPED Autism PreK

Build visual discrimination, matching, and shape skills with these low-prep Halloween Work Tasks! Seven quick-prep cognitive tasks are ready for your centers, work stations, and task boxes during the busy Halloween week — because what's spookier than too much prep? 🎃

📦 What's Included

7 low-prep Halloween work tasks:

• Find the Shadow (Pumpkins)
• Match the Pumpkins
• Match the Pumpkin Characters
• Find the Whole (Halloween theme)
• Find the Shape (Pumpkins)
• Find the Shape (Mummies)
• Find the Shape (Frankensteins)

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Visual discrimination
• Matching (picture, shadow, part-to-whole)
• Shape identification and shape matching
• Shadow / silhouette matching
• Part-to-whole matching
• Fine motor skills
• Attending to a task
• Following directions
• Independent work stamina

📚 How to Use

• Set up the 7 tasks at centers, work stations, or task boxes (TEACCH-style)
• Use during Halloween week when you need engaging, low-prep activities
• Use in 1:1 or small group to introduce each cognitive task
• Differentiate by assigning easier or harder tasks based on student level
• Use as morning tub or early finisher activities

💛 Perfect For

• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
• Occupational therapy (fine motor / visual perceptual)
• Centers, work stations, and task boxes
• Halloween and October units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Early finishers and morning tubs
• Homeschool hands-on learning

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• 7 tasks in one set — a full week of Halloween centers
• Low prep — exactly what you need during the busy Halloween season
• Targets visual discrimination, matching, and shapes (key early cognitive skills)
• Task-box ready for independent work
• Variety of task types (shadow, whole, shape, character) keeps it fresh
• Reusable year after year once laminated
• Print-and-go

🎃 More hands-on pumpkin, fall, and Halloween favorites:

• Hands-On Pumpkin Activities
• Hands-On Fall Activities
• Hands-On Halloween Activities