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Halloween Food Vocabulary Activities for Elementary ESL Students | Flashcards, Worksheets, Games & Bingo

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Food-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-11035412

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Halloween is the perfect time to review food vocabulary in a fun and engaging way! This Halloween Food Vocabulary resource helps elementary ESL/EFL learners practice everyday food words through hands-on activities, speaking games, worksheets, bingo, and interactive learning centers. Students develop vocabulary, sentence-building, and communication skills while enjoying a seasonal theme that increases motivation and participation. 


Review food vocabulary in a Halloween context to help elementary English language learners connect familiar words to a seasonal theme.

Putting the food words into Halloween food vocabulary flashcards makes it fun to connect with everyday food terms. Make puzzles out of the flashcards to reinforce vocabulary recognition. Encourage speaking practice as students say the food item they found.: “I have a hamburger.”

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Halloween FOOD ESL activities with the flashcards

Arrange the Halloween food flashcards face-up on a desk or wall — this is the “Halloween Food Stand.” One student is the “shopkeeper,” the other is the “customer.” Print the sign to add make it fun.

Halloween food flashcards activity

Halloween EFL food flashcards activities

The customer student looks at the flashcards and says:

“I want a hot dog, please.”

The shopkeeper student finds the card and says:
“Here you are.”

The customer student replies:
“Thank you.”

Students can make even more short dialogues.

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Halloween food vocabulary activities with the small cards

Give a small group of students a set of small cards. Each one picks a card and writes a sentence starting with:

o    I like… (e.g., I like ice cream and soda.)

o    I want… (e.g., I want a hot dog.)

Have them share their sentences with the group. Turn it into a group survey: students ask each other “Do you like…?” or “Do you want…?” and record answers.

Do you like? flashcards

Halloween Character Favorites food speaking activities

 Students pick one Halloween character card and one food card. They make a sentence: “Frankenstein likes pancakes.”

Halloween Character Favorites food speaking activities

Halloween Food worksheets for ESL

Crossword Puzzle: Students use picture clues to fill in the words for different Halloween food items. 

Halloween Food worksheets for ESL

Word-to-Picture Match: Students draw a line from each food word to its matching picture. It will reinforce Spelling. Then, Use the words in a mini spelling contest.

Halloween Food worksheets for ESL

Read and Color Halloween Food Worksheet

Help your students practice Halloween food vocabulary with this fun Read and Color worksheet! Students read each sentence, identify the correct Halloween food items, and color the pictures to match. This activity strengthens reading comprehension, vocabulary recognition, and color-word practice while keeping learners engaged with a festive Halloween theme. Perfect for independent work, literacy centers, fast finishers, or seasonal ESL lessons. 🎃👻🍕🍔

Read and Color Halloween Food Worksheet

Halloween Unscramble the Sentences Worksheet

Give your students meaningful sentence-building practice with this fun Halloween Unscramble the Sentences worksheet. Learners rearrange the words to create correct sentences and questions while reviewing Halloween food vocabulary. This activity helps students develop reading comprehension, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and writing skills in an engaging seasonal context. Perfect for independent work, literacy centers, homework, fast finishers, or Halloween-themed ESL lessons. 🎃✏️👻

Halloween Unscramble the Sentences Worksheet

Halloween Food Preferences Worksheet

Help your young English learners practice food vocabulary and expressing preferences with this fun Halloween-themed worksheet. Students read and answer simple questions such as “Do you like soup?” and “Do you like pizza?” using complete sentences. This activity gives learners meaningful practice with the structure Do you like…? while reviewing common food words in an engaging seasonal context.

Halloween Food Preferences Worksheet

Halloween Whose? Worksheet

Practice possessive questions and answers with this fun Halloween-themed worksheet! Students follow the lines connecting each Halloween character to a food item and answer questions using the structure Whose... is this?

As they complete the activity, learners review Halloween vocabulary, food words, and possessive forms while developing their reading and writing skills. Students can write complete sentences such as “It is the vampire’s pizza.” or “It is the witch’s meatball.”

Halloween Whose? Worksheet

Halloween Food Requests Worksheet for Young ESL Learners

Help your students practice making polite requests with this engaging Halloween-themed worksheet! Learners look at the food pictures and complete the sentences using the target pattern "What do you want?" and "___, please." As students write their answers, they reinforce Halloween food vocabulary while developing confidence in using common request expressions in English.

Halloween Food Requests Worksheet for Young ESL Learners
Practice changing negative sentences into affirmative sentences 

 Students read each negative sentence (for example, “It isn’t a cookie.”) and complete the affirmative sentence with the correct word. This engaging activity gives children extra practice with affirmative and negative sentence structures, vocabulary recognition, and writing skills.

Practice changing negative sentences into affirmative sentences

Halloween food puzzle worksheet 

Students look at the puzzle pieces and complete each match by writing the missing word or identifying the missing picture. 

Halloween food puzzle worksheet

Cut-and-fold matching worksheet to review vocabulary. Students name each food item on the worksheet. They cut out each food item and its word, fold them in half, and place them on a table. Cards can be used for matching games, speaking activities, or sorting tasks.

Halloween Food worksheets for ESL

Halloween Food bingo game

Halloween Food bingo game

Print the Bingo game to review food vocabulary. It comes with a Teacher’s Mat with all the Halloween food picture cards for calling out items, and Bingo Strips which have 5 different Halloween food items.

Halloween Food bingo game

Students listen, find the matching food on their strip, and mark it. The first to complete their strip shouts “Bingo!”. It encourages Focus and Attention.


There are games that I have for Kindergarten ELL, such as letter tiles, board game and feed me boxes, which can be adapted to older students. Check the blog post and the link to the resource:

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/09/halloween-food-for-kindergarten-ells.html


This Halloween food vocabulary activities for elementary ESL students with flashcards, worksheets, bingo, speaking games, writing activities, and centers is also sold individually, here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Food-Vocabulary-Activities-Games-for-Elementary-ELLs-14210978



Fun food unit games for elementary ESL/ELL learners — printable interactive vocabulary games, speaking tasks, and classroom activities to practise food vocabulary, all in the food pack. Go to the blog post here:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/02/food-unit-games-for-elementary-english.html

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I used the alphabel clip art to make the sign using Creative Fabrica, here is my affliate link: https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/halloween-alphabet-letters-sublimation-27/ref/2670802/?sharedfrom=pdp

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