Welcome to the Halloween page of Busy Teacher! There are currently 128 worksheets and excellent articles available on this spooky holiday. Planning your Halloween lesson just got a lot easier! Take a moment to browse through the section to find something that's appropriate for your class. Whether or not your students are familiar with Halloween, they are sure to enjoy the creative activities you do in class. You can make the experience more authentic by encouraging students to dress in costume and by handing out candy but make sure these are both acceptable at your school!
Halloween Holiday, observed on October 31, commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)". The Irish festival's name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".
Song Worksheet: Everlong by Foo Fighters
Gap fill activity using the song Everlong by The Foo Fighters. It can be used as a warmer for Halloween, as it contains references from an 80's horror film, The Evil Dead, or as a review for verbs ...
Halloween Myths and Supestitions
Halloween Myths and Supestitions. This presentation may help when speaking about superstitions and myths relating to Halloween. There are some images of well-known characters and some stories abou ...
Halloween vs Bonfire Night PPT
This is a short (one slide) interactive PowerPoint 'presentation'. A student has to choose which of the given words belong to Halloween topic and which to Bonfire Night. It's essential to prepare ...
Calling All The Monsters: Halloween Song Worksheet
If you're teaching preteen girls who are into the Disney Channel (think Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, etc.) then they'll love this song! It's quite repetitive and catchy, although the lyrics aren't v ...
Beginner Level Halloween Reading
For low level learners working on calendar and/or holidays I hope this reading will provide a reasonable challenge. The main focus is reading comprehension using WH questions as well as Yes/No qu ...
Halloween for Elementary Students
The worksheet contains a short article about Halloween and two exercises on reading comprehension. It is good for low elementary students, just present simple was used. Vocabulary is included on ...
Test "History of Halloween"
The test is given to check up students' comprehension of the video devoted to the history of Halloween. The video is not so difficult for understanding and it might be shown to kids and elementary ...
Halloween: Reading Comprehension and Word Search
This is a text about Halloween describing the origin of this celebration and the typical activities done on this day. After reading the text, the students answer some questions to check their comp ...
Halloween Song: "Knock, Knock Trick or Treat"
This worksheet provides the lyrics of the song "Knock Knock Trick or Treat". For more information and examples of lesson plans for this song you can take a look at http://supersimplelearning.com/s ...
Halloween Listening: When/what/what People Do
This is a short, easy and fun listening comprehension. I only transcribed :=) I used it last year with my class (age: 12, level A2.1 CEFR) and they enjoyed reading and listening. For higher level ...
The Haunted House: A Halloween Activity
This is a Halloween activity, very interesting, you can practice Halloween vocabulary with your students. This a Haunted house, ask the students to draw the house, and connect the words to the ne ...
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