Welcome to the Halloween page of Busy Teacher! There are currently 214 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!
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Step by step instructions with pictures and lyrics to learn 'the skeleton dance'. A fun Halloween song that can also be used to practise body parts. Suitable for all grades. The youtube video lin ...
This 150-word paragraph introduces the custom/tradition of Halloween. There are 12 missing words; learners can choose from the vocabulary on the left. Intermediate-level. With Answer Key. Your ...
"Halloween memory game" is a simple card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on surface and the children have to match pairs of the Halloween words together. It can be used after ...
It can be a homework or a filler during the Halloween season. Students have to put together the sentences of a Halloween story using the codes given in the table. It is ideal for elementary level ...
This is a simple missing letter activity for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the words with the missing letters. T ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the ...
Once the students have learned all about Halloween and practised using the vocabulary, hand out this worksheet to check on their knowledge. Better to do it in class and not for homework because t ...
This could be used as a poster for the classroom, especially if you enlarge it, and/or handed out to students for them to learn the vocabulary. Work on the explanation of each item and the pronun ...
This 26-page PPT can be used either to introduce the vocabulary around Halloween or to revise it. On each page there is a picture illustrating the vocabulary and students have to answer the quest ...
This is a sample of Halloween dominoes, where, instead of using only images, you have a picture and the description of the picture that follows. This can be used as an ice-breaker or a warming, on ...
I created this crossword puzzle for my Grade 1 son and elected to make it available anyway because it is so sweet. It is a very simple Halloween themed puzzle, with a focus on elementary English ...
A very simple addition exercise for grade 1 learners, or even younger children. This fun Halloween-themed worksheet features a number of Cauldron pots, and within each one there is an easy sum fo ...
A sweet counting activity, suitable for grade 1 learners, where he or she will tally up, and record on a simple bar graph the numbers of each of a set of Halloween-themed images. In the result he ...
This is a single page Halloween themed phonics worksheet, with a focus on words ending in -at. The learner needs to say the main word "bat" - with the emphasis on the "at" sound and fill in the l ...
Flashcards can be a very useful tool to use with younger learners. Using flashcards can help improve visual memory, association and comprehension so here's a wonderful set of high-quality Hallowe ...
This is a VERY BASIC LEVEL / KIDS LEVEL activity which uses the official video from the Monster High TM. I created it for Halloween, using its vocabulary and working with the song as well. Basical ...
This is an activity which uses the official video from the Monster High TM. I created it for Halloween, using its vocabulary and working with the song as well. Basically it's done for Kids or Teen ...
This is a simple and easy matching activity for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures. The ...
Here's a classroom poster witch can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary, for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary at elementary level. The file is available in both ...
This is a colourful picture crossword for teaching Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword and then match the words with the pict ...
(I've got the .doc version, let me know if you want it to edit the exercises!) Halloween activity! I've made three different activities to use while/after watching the movie, so you can choose wh ...
In this activity the students have to write the correct form of the simple present's to be. On the board, I will go over the simple present form of "to be" and will make sure the students understa ...
This is a set of flashcards as an additional material for my power point presentation about the halloween story "the old witch". It can be used after or before the presentation to practise new voc ...
Halloween is coming soon, so I've decided to make a power point presentation of a short Halloween story "The Old Witch" by the Grimm Brothers. The presentation is colourful and all slides are mov ...
Picture for discussion and multiple choice questions. A really fun picture of a witch's room with many opportunities for discussion. Would be good for Halloween. Then 11 multiple choice question ...
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