Halloween Music & Movement Adapted Books | Gross Motor Vocabulary | SLP SPED

Get the Halloween wiggles out with these two interactive music and movement adapted books! "It's a Happy Halloween" (adapted song book) and "Moving on Halloween" (movement book) build Halloween vocabulary, imitation, motor planning, and gross motor skills — highly engaging, low-prep, and perfect for circle time, brain breaks, speech therapy, and special education classrooms.

🎵 Sample Song — "It's a Happy Halloween"

(to the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain")

"All the skeletons will rattle down the street.

All the black cats will skedaddle down the street.

All the wolves will go a-howling,

all the goblins will go prowling.

It's a Happy Halloween — Trick or Treat!"

👉 Students match the pictures and sing along as you move through the pages.

📦 What's Included

• "It's a Happy Halloween" — interactive adapted song book (reviews Halloween vocabulary)
• Empty/Full sorting activity that follows the song
• "Moving on Halloween" — movement book for gross motor and motor planning
• Movement Cards to go along with the movement book

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Halloween and seasonal vocabulary
• Imitation skills
• Motor planning
• Gross motor skills
• Following directions
• Basic concepts: empty / full
• Sorting and classification
• Receptive and expressive language
• Joint attention and participation
• Music and movement engagement

📚 How to Use

• Sing "It's a Happy Halloween" to a familiar tune as students match pictures and sing along
• Follow the song with the empty/full sorting activity
• Use "Moving on Halloween" and the movement cards for a gross-motor brain break
• Use during circle time, morning meeting, or transitions
• Pull for speech therapy (vocabulary, imitation) and OT / adaptive PE (motor planning, gross motor)
• Great for whole group, small group, or 1:1

💛 Perfect For

• Speech-language therapy sessions (SLPs)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Occupational therapy and adaptive PE (gross motor / motor planning)
• Music therapy
• Circle time, morning meeting, and brain breaks
• Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
• Halloween and October units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool hands-on learning

🌟 Why Teachers & SLPs Love These

• Two books in one — a song book AND a movement book
• Music + movement keeps every learner engaged and participating
• Targets language AND gross motor goals at the same time
• Familiar tune makes the song easy to learn and sing
• Movement cards and sorting activity add built-in extensions
• Works for whole group, small group, and 1:1
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎁 Save with the bundle! These books are part of the Adapted Song Books Bundle — songs and movement for the whole year.

🎃 More hands-on fall and Halloween favorites:

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