Halloween is the perfect occasion to bring energy and variety into your lessons. From costumes and sweets to scary movies and traditions, it offers plenty of engaging material to spark interest.
Here are some online Halloween-themed activities you can use in your ESL class.
👻 The Spooky Sounds of Halloween Quiz
Try the Spooky Sounds Quiz. How many of these hair-raising Halloween sounds do you recognise?
Check out the Sound Quizzes page for more fun audio challenges
🎃 Halloween Picture Quiz
Test your knowledge of some crucial Halloween vocabulary with this Halloween Picture Quiz.
🦇 Halloween Question Cards
Here are some Halloween Question Cards. Some topical questions around the theme of Halloween.
💀 Halloween Hangman
This gruesome game of Halloween Hangman seems more appropriate at this time of year.
🕯️ Halloween Scatter Sheet
A Halloween Scatter Sheet. Students take it in turns to describe these horrifying words to each other.
☠️ Complete the Superstitions
A superstition sentence matching activity. Match the sentence halves to complete the superstitions.
🔮 Fortune Telling
Students cast some runes and forecast the destinies of their classmates with this fun fortune telling activity.
📜 Halloween Cloze Activities
B1 Read about The History of Halloween and complete the text with words from the word bank, from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain to modern trick-or-treating.
B1 Discover Halloween Around the World, from Mexico’s Day of the Dead to China’s Hungry Ghost Festival, and learn vocabulary for customs and traditions.
B2 Explore A Night in a Haunted House, a spooky story full of atmosphere adjectives and fear idioms like scared stiff and jumped out of my skin.
🍬 Trick or Treat?
Try Trick or Treat?, a categorise activity where students decide whether things like rotten eggs, a fake spider, toffee apples and gummy worms are a trick or a treat.
🧟♂️ Classroom Halloween Activities
Check out our sister site ESLgames.com for Halloween ideas and printable activities to use in your classroom
Autumn (Fall) Activities
See the Autumn (fall) activities page for more seasonal activities.