{"id":86,"date":"2025-09-22T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:32:59","slug":"halloween-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/halloween-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"524\" src=\"http:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/spooky-banner.png\" alt=\"halloween activities\" class=\"wp-image-255\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some online Halloween-themed activities you can use in your ESL class.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\ude31 Halloween Lesson Plan: Why Do We Love Being Scared?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want a full lesson? <strong>Why Do We Love Being Scared?<\/strong> is a ready-made lesson plan on horror films, fears and &#8220;fun fear&#8221;, with a warmer, vocabulary, a reading and discussion. Choose the <a href=\"\/hub\/lesson-plans\/why-do-we-love-being-scared-a2\/\">A2 version<\/a> or the <a href=\"\/hub\/lesson-plans\/why-do-we-love-being-scared-b2\/\">B2 version<\/a>, or browse all our <a href=\"\/hub\/lesson-plans\/\">lesson plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udc7b The Spooky Sounds of Halloween Quiz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try the <a href=\"\/soundquiz\/halloween.php\">Spooky Sounds Quiz<\/a>. How many of these hair-raising Halloween sounds do you recognise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the <a href=\"\/soundquiz\/\">Sound Quizzes<\/a> page for more fun audio challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udf83 Halloween Picture Quiz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Test your knowledge of some crucial Halloween vocabulary with this <a href=\"\/picturequiz\/quiz.php?w=182be0c5\">Halloween Picture Quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83e\udd87 Halloween Question Cards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some <a href=\"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/cards\/cardset.php?w=fe4edcd6\">Halloween Question Cards<\/a>. Some topical questions around the theme of Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udc80 Halloween Hangman<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gruesome game of <a href=\"\/hangman\/game.php?w=n53opnzq\">Halloween Hangman<\/a> seems more appropriate at this time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f Halloween Scatter Sheets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One student describes a word without saying it, and the others guess which word it is.<br><strong>A2<\/strong> <a href=\"\/scatter\/sheet.php?w=b8b73364\">Halloween Vocabulary<\/a>: pumpkin, costume, trick or treat, haunted house and more.<br><strong>B1<\/strong> <a href=\"\/scatter\/sheet.php?w=a87ff679\">Halloween<\/a>: horrifying words like cemetery, nightmare and superstitious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2620\ufe0f Complete the Superstitions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"\/sentence\/match.php?w=superst\">superstition sentence matching activity<\/a>. Match the sentence halves to complete the superstitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd2e Fortune Telling<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students draw mystical picture cards and tell each other\u2019s fortunes, from past and present to future, with this <a href=\"\/fortune\/\">fortune telling activity<\/a>. For spreads, classroom ideas and useful language, see the <a href=\"\/fortune\/ideas.php\">Fortune Teller instructions and ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udcdc Halloween Cloze Activities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B1 <\/strong>Read about <a href=\"\/cloze\/exercise_hint.php?w=3d9ef79b\">The History of Halloween<\/a> and complete the text with words from the word bank, from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain to modern trick-or-treating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B1<\/strong> Discover <a href=\"\/cloze\/exercise_hint.php?w=deaa0361\">Halloween Around the World<\/a>, from Mexico&#8217;s Day of the Dead to China&#8217;s Hungry Ghost Festival, and learn vocabulary for customs and traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B2<\/strong> Explore <a href=\"\/cloze\/exercise_hint.php?w=0677cdf5\">A Night in a Haunted House<\/a>, a spooky story full of atmosphere adjectives and fear idioms like <em>scared stiff<\/em> and <em>jumped out of my skin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udf6c Trick or Treat?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try <a href=\"\/categorise\/activity.php?w=26a75a02\">Trick or Treat?<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\ude31 What Are the Scariest Things?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/ranking\/exercise.php?w=d3d94468\">What Are the Scariest Things?<\/a> is a ranking activity. Students put ten fears, from spiders and clowns to going to the dentist, in order from scariest to least scary, then compare with a partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83e\udddb The Best Halloween Costumes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which costume would you wear? In <a href=\"\/ranking\/exercise.php?w=6512bd43\">The Best Halloween Costumes<\/a>, students rank ten classic costumes, from witches and vampires to black cats, then explain their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd78\ufe0f A Spooky Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B1<\/strong> In <a href=\"\/scramble\/sentence.php?w=0f664db9\">A Spooky Story<\/a>, students unscramble the sentences of a short haunted house story, practising the past continuous and past simple: <em>I was reaching for my phone when a hand touched my shoulder.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Classroom Halloween Activities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out our sister site ESLgames.com for <a href=\"https:\/\/eslgames.com\/halloween-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween ideas and printable activities<\/a> to use in your classroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Autumn (Fall) Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the <a href=\"\/hub\/autumn-fall-activities\/\">Autumn (fall) activities page<\/a> for more seasonal activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \ud83d\ude31 Halloween Lesson Plan: Why Do We Love Being Scared? 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