Get ready for a monstrously entertaining mixture of puzzles, colouring, drawing and early learning activities!
These printable Monster Challenge mats are filled with friendly creatures and engaging activities designed to keep children thinking, creating and having fun. They are perfect for Halloween, monster-themed parties, classroom activity stations or screen-free entertainment at home.
What’s Included?
This four-page digital PDF contains:
- Two black-and-white Monster Challenge activity mats
- Two corresponding answer sheets
- A monster word search
- A twisty cookie maze
- A spot-the-difference puzzle
- A monster symmetry challenge
- Counting and colouring activities
- A monster graphing exercise
- An emotions activity
- Three noughts-and-crosses games
- Creative drawing and colouring prompts
Activities Children Can Enjoy
Children can:
- Design and decorate their own monster
- Identify four different monster emotions
- Find monster-themed words
- Colour the correct number of eyes, horns and arms
- Help a hungry monster reach its cookie
- Complete the missing half of a symmetrical monster
- Find the differences between two pictures
- Count monsters and record the results on a graph
- Draw an imaginative meal on the monster’s plate
- Colour an assortment of funny monster characters
Why You’ll Love These Activity Mats
- Quick and easy to prepare
- No cutting or gluing required
- Encourages creative and imaginative thinking
- Supports counting, spelling and observation skills
- Helps develop pencil control and fine motor coordination
- Includes answers for the puzzles and learning activities
- Ideal for home, school, parties and activity clubs
- Provides engaging, screen-free entertainment
How to Use the Printable
- Download the PDF.
- Print the two black-and-white activity mats.
- Provide pencils, crayons or felt-tip pens.
- Let children tackle the challenges in any order.
- Use the two answer sheets to check the puzzles.
The creative drawing sections do not have set answers, so children are free to make their monsters as strange, colourful or silly as they like.
Make the Mats Reusable
Laminate the activity sheets or place them inside dry-wipe pockets to create reusable monster mats.
Complete the challenges using dry-wipe pens, wipe the sheets clean and enjoy them again. This is a useful option for classrooms, early-finisher stations, activity clubs and waiting rooms.
Perfect For
- Halloween parties
- Monster-themed birthdays
- Classroom morning work
- Early finishers
- Indoor playtimes
- Home education
- Rainy afternoons
- Half-term entertainment
- Restaurant placemats
- Long journeys
- Screen-free quiet time
Printing Information
- Digital PDF download
- Four US Letter landscape pages
- Two activity mats and two answer sheets
- Black-and-white, ink-friendly designs
- Print using landscape orientation
- Select “fit to printable area” if the edges are being cropped
- No physical product will be posted
Ordinary white printer paper is suitable. For reusable mats, print on cardstock before laminating or placing the pages inside dry-wipe pockets.
Terms of Use
This printable is provided for non-commercial personal and individual classroom use only.
You may print copies for your own children or pupils. You may not sell, redistribute, mass-produce or upload the PDF to another website.
If you would like to share the activity with others, please direct them to the original download page so they can obtain their own copy.
Download Your Free Monster Activity Mats
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