Halloween Skeleton Body Parts Activities for Elementary ELLs

 This resource is included in the Body Unit for Elementary ESL. Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Body-Theme-for-Elementary-ELL-1836555

The Halloween skeleton adds a playful, spooky twist to the traditional body unit, keeping students motivated and excited to review words like head, arm, leg, foot, hand, and ribs.

The teacher places a skeleton flashcard on the board. Students come up one by one to label the body parts using word cards, sticky notes, or by writing directly on the board with markers. This promotes whole-class participation.

Students label the parts of the skeleton directly on a flashcard placed inside a clear plastic sheet using whiteboard markers. They can write the words for head, arms, legs, feet, ribs, bones, and pelvis, then erase and repeat for practice. Students engage with the vocabulary by writing it themselves, reinforcing spelling and word recognition.

Students sort the skeleton body part flashcards into two groups — left and right. For example, they place left arm, left leg, left hand on one side, and right arm, right leg, right hand on the other. This can be done on the board, in a pocket chart, or on their desks as a group or partner activity.

Students use the skeleton flashcard to count how many of each part the skeleton has. For example:  The skeleton has one head./ The skeleton has two arms./ The skeleton has three fingers.

The small cards can be used for forming simple sentences (e.g., The skeleton has two legs. / This is the skeleton’s head.), allowing students to practice speaking.

As a speaking activity: 

Cut out the word from each small card and then match it to the correct picture. This will strengthen their reading comprehension and vocabulary recall.

Students use the small skeleton body part cards to write simple sentences such as: This is the skeleton’s hand./ This is the skeleton’s leg./ This is the skeleton’s head.  They can write the sentences on paper, mini whiteboards, or in their notebooks after choosing or drawing a card.

Label the Skeleton Worksheet. Students write the correct word next to each body part.

Read and Color the Skeleton Worksheet. Students read simple descriptive sentences about the skeleton and color each body part accordingly.

Students look at pictures of the skeleton’s body parts on a worksheet and draw lines to match each picture with the correct word.

Students can complete this worksheet on their own, making it ideal for assessment, centers, or homework.

  This craft-style activity perfectly combines art, language, and kinesthetic learning. Students build their own skeleton craft by gluing the body part cutouts onto a frame made with chenille stems (pipe cleaners).

They color each piece, assemble the skeleton, and glue or tape it onto construction paper. Once their skeletons are complete, students describe their creations to the class using full sentences, such as:  This is my skeleton./  It has two arms and two legs. / The skeleton’s head is gray.

 

Here I am with my description:

Students match each word to the correct skeleton body part by connecting or assembling puzzle pieces. Each piece includes a word and a corresponding picture of that part on the skeleton. Matching words to pictures helps ELLs connect spoken and written English naturally, reinforcing comprehension through a hands-on activity.

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Halloween Colors Activities for Elementary ESL | Flashcards, Games, Worksheets & Puzzle

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Instead of learning colors in isolation, students connect them to Halloween. It builds cultural understanding alongside vocabulary.

 Draw the grid on the board and place the Halloween characters flashcards in each box. Call out “A2!

Students: It’s the witch!
Teacher: Yes! What color is the witch?
Students: green! She’s a green witch.

Draw the color splotches on the board and have the students start sorting according to color. Ask questions: What is brown?

Students: the tree, the coffin, the Werewolf.

Place any flashcard in a clear plastic sheet. Using a whiteboard marker students write sentences about the image.

Spin the bottle using the small cards. Students will sit in a circle with a plastic bottle in the middle. Display the cards in a line in front of the children. One of them can spin the bottle and the others wait until it stops. The bottle is pointing to a student and has to pick a card say what it is or a sentence. 

The small cards work well for short paragraph writing.

Play match the word to the picture, juts cut the word out of each card.

Go upstairs with the small cards. Place clear masking tape on the ladder part of the card and hand in to an individual child or group along a dry erase marker. Cut the words from the small cards and students arrange them into a pile. When the student recognizes a Halloween card correctly he checks a space on the stair. The first one to make it to the top wins.

Halloween Coloring Worksheets. Each worksheet has Halloween characters and objects for students to color according to the color word provided.

Color Recognition Practice. Students identify the color word (orange, green, black, purple, etc.) and color the picture correctly.

As an extension students make simple sentences after coloring: “The tombstone is gray. ”The ghosts are yellow, black, red, purple, brown, white, orange, blue, green, and pink.

Students will strengthen color vocabulary in context in this worksheet.

Another benefit is that the worksheets give students a clear visual connection between the written color word and the object, helping them build stronger word recognition skills.

 

Puzzle Match & Say.  Students take turns picking a piece (picture or word). They find the matching piece and say the full phrase: “Purple haunted house.”

I added letter tiles with Halloween features to make crosswords of the color words

or to write the Halloween words.

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Haunted House Numbers 1–20 | Halloween Math Activities for ELLs

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Bring spooky fun into your lessons with this Haunted House Numbers resource! Perfect for Halloween, this set helps students practice numerals, number words, and sequencing from 1–20 through engaging, hands-on activities. Designed for English language learners.

Halloween Flashcard bingo. Use the 20 flashcards for this activity. Stick them on the blackboard.  Handout the Bingo grid with and have the students write the name of any number in each square (encourage them to check spelling to do this as necessary).  When children are ready, remove the flashcards one by one and say the names.  Children listen and write a cross on the word if it is in their grid. The first child to write a cross on all six words in their grid calls Bingo! and is the winner.

Haunted House Number Line. Place the flashcards 1–20 on the board in order. Remove 2–3 numbers. Students guess which “ghost numbers” are missing.

Tracing Activity. Place a clear plastic sheet over the number word worksheet. Students use a dry-erase marker to trace the number words. This activity can be repeated multiple times, helping students practice writing skills and reinforcing number word recognition in a fun, reusable way.

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Knock-knock the small cards. Place cards face down on the desk like “doors” in a haunted house. Students “knock” on a door (flip a card) and must read/say the number word. If correct, they “enter the haunted room” (keep the card).

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Magic Number Sentence. Students draw a number card and make a short sentence with it.  “There are nineteen ghosts in the Haunted House”. Hand the Halloween token if it is correct.

Speaking opportunity!

I am / You are Sentences. A student picks a small card and says: I am number fifteen. You are number twenty. (Identify what the other partner has)

Students match a numeral to its word worksheet. Then write the word on their notebooks.

Students color each numeral on the worksheet they find a specific color, then write the word with that color on their notebooks.

Cut-and-Paste Matching worksheets.  Students cut out the numeral cards and paste them onto the haunted houses with the correct number of ghosts.

  Students read the number word sequence in the worksheet, then, they fill in the missing number words in the blanks.  This activity builds reading fluency, spelling, and understanding of number order.

 Students are given a grid worksheet with numerals and haunted house images.   They complete the grid by writing the next number words in the empty spaces.   This activity helps with number recognition, spelling, and strengthens the numeral–word connection.

Game-Printable board like Snakes & Ladders but students can only climb/slide if they read the number correctly.

Matching Mats (Haunted House Theme). Students receive mats with haunted houses and sets of numerals and number words cards. They match the numeral to the correct haunted house and then place the number word. Great for independent work.

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