Halloween is a favourite holidays for both children and young people, and also a perfect opportunity for fun learning. If you are an English teacher or are looking for creative activities for your class, here you will find free Halloween resources for primary and secondary school that combine fun, learning and themed vocabulary. From colouring pumpkins and completing crazy stories to taboo games and spooky writing prompts, these activities will ensure your students enjoy themselves while practising the language.
Halloween resources for primary school
Colour the Pumpkins: A visual and entertaining activity in which pupils must colour pumpkins following instructions in English. This allows them to reinforce vocabulary related to colours, objects and positions while having fun searching and painting.
Halloween Mad Libs: A classic Mad Libs template adapted for Halloween. Children fill in the blanks with adjectives, nouns, verbs or sounds, and at the end they read aloud a crazy and terrifying story. Ideal for practising basic grammar, creativity and reading comprehension.
Halloween resources for secondary school
Halloween Taboo: The classic board game in digital format. Students must get their team to guess the Halloween word without using the forbidden words. Perfect for promoting oral expression, thematic vocabulary and communicative fluency in English.
Spooky Story Starters : A collection of 15 spooky story openings such as ‘The moon cast a glow over the old, abandoned mansion…’ or ‘On Halloween night, a sudden chill swept through the air…’. With these phrases, students can create original horror stories, practise creative writing and expand their repertoire of expressions.
With these free resources, you’ll have activities ready to motivate your students, whether it’s colouring pumpkins, inventing spooky stories, or competing in a fun game of Taboo. Download them, print them out, and celebrate an educational and terrifyingly fun Halloween!