7 simple Halloween activities that your students will love. They are activities related to a special celebration that students absolutely take great pleasure in!

On one hand, they generally like a special celebration, on the other expanding vocabulary, teaching new phrases and expressions are usually activities they love. So, it’s like killing two birds with one stone!

Ask your students to think of as many things as they can about Halloween.

Ask them if they know what children do during this day, what happens at night, where did traditions start…

Show them a picture to elicit the words you are looking for! Engage them and show them how people usually celebrate a special date or occasion.

You can do lots of things to make these celebrations FUN!

If you need more ideas, read my related posts:

• How To Learn New English Words Every Day
• ESL Vocabulary And Ways To Enlarge It and
• Vocabulary Learning And 9 Things A Learner Needs.

Besides these posts, you can find here on my website several FREE downloadable resources which are vocabulary and picture-based too:

• explore vocabulary about feelings – 13 Smart Strategies To Start A (Remote) School Year
• practise the Conditionals (Summer, Life After Covid, Back To School, Business Situations, Halloween) – Free Downloads
• brainstorm – Why Celebrating Fun Days Of The Year In ESL?

Now have a look at the activities I have prepared for you to work with your students this week!

You can adapt them to different levels, use them when teaching in social distancing or at school.

For more ideas from other sites and teachers, visit my Pinterest account, follow me there and make sure you check the board English ESL Tips – Celebrations And Traditions.

SIMPLE HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES:

1 – Brainstorming Expressions And Words

2 – If I were there, I would… About Halloween

Download the worksheet HERE and POSSIBLE ANSWERS.

3 – Motivating For Halloween With Remember All-Or-Nothing

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4 – Expanding Vocabulary With Captions’ Factory

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5 – Creating Connections With Daytime Stories

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6 – Exercising Vocabulary With The 3 Words Game

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7 – Writing A Story And Choosing A Story Title

The last FREE activity: find HERE the PDF document.

Vocabulary To Explore With Simple Halloween Activities

Simple Halloween Activities & Traditions – 

going trick-or-treating	wearing creepy scary costumes
making a fall craft	playing pranks
eating candy apples	decorating houses and front porches with pumpkins, spiders and webs
eating sweets and candies	decorating with black & orange (the colours of death &the harvest season)
craving Jack-O’-Lanterns	lighting candles

Halloween Expressions & Phrases – 

Trick or treat	Halloween Party	face paint	black cat
Jack-O’-Lantern	Costume party	blind eye	eye of newt
All Saints’ Day	full moon	hocus pocus	toe of frog
Old Festival	haunted house	magic potion	lizard’s leg
Festival of the Dead	ghost story	pointy shoes	ghostly greetings
Halloween’s Eve	scary story	conical hat	happy haunting

Halloween Characters & Creatures – 

Vampire	Frankenstein	Ghoul	Poltergeist
Witch	Goblin	Skeleton	Zombie
Wizard	Werewolf	Mummy	Demon
Warlock	Ghost	Dracula	Monster

Halloween Animals –

black cat	bat	werewolf	toad, frog
spider	raven	wolf	owl

Halloween Places –

grave	gravestone	cemetery	tomb
graveyard	mausoleum	coffin	haunted house

Halloween Nouns –

costume	bones	apparition	cauldron
mask	blood	superstition	potion
knife	skull	spirit	wand
scissors	teeth	shadow	broom
candy, sweets	corpse	demon	broomstick
celebration	witchcraft	evil	spell

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Halloween Adjectives

haunted	paranormal	terrified	carved
creepy	possessed	decapitated	morbid
spooky	cursed	mummified	bizarre
magic	gruesome	frightened	macabre
scary	bloody	horrified	hideous
dark	fearful	petrified	sinister
freaky	frightful	afraid	shocking
dreadful	nail-biting	scared	haunting

Halloween Fun Catchphrases & Sayings –

Trick or treat, smell my feet	Ghouls just want to have fun
Happy Howl-oween!	Ghosts don’t give a sheet
Happy Haunting!	I witch you a Happy Halloween!
We’ll have a spooky good time	Witches know how to drive a stick
Have a spooky Halloween!	Broom parking. Violators will be toad
It’s the most frightful time of the year	Please park all brooms at the door
Give me, give me all your candy	BYOB (Bring Your Own Broomstick)
If you’ve got it, haunt it	Don’t Worry – We don’t bite (much)
I’m just here for the boo’s	If you’ve never carved a pumpkin, you don’t know Jack
Teamwork makes the SCREAM Work	I want my Mummy
Watch out! Black cat crossing!	Vampires know how to have a bloody good time
Caution! Witch crossing!	Werewolves are fur real

Never forget that Halloween is a great time to be creepily creative and a tremendous opportunity to make our learners have fun with the English language and engage in simple Halloween activities!

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Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Halloween party?
– Because he had NO-BODY to go with!

What do spiders do for fun on Halloween?
– They surf the web!

How can you tell if a vampire has a cold?
– Because of the coffin!

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