Halloween ESL Activities for Elementary Students: Games, Worksheets, and Vocabulary Practice

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 This Halloween resource is packed with hands-on activities that help elementary English language learners practice Halloween vocabulary, spelling, reading, writing, and speaking skills in a fun and meaningful way. Students can learn Halloween words through colorful flashcards, tracing cards, puppets, spelling games, picture dictionary activities, interactive worksheets, and a printable accordion book.

Perfect for literacy centers, small-group instruction, early finishers, independent work, and seasonal classroom celebrations, this resource makes Halloween learning both educational and memorable. 🎃👻📚🦇✏️

Halloween Flashcards

Introduce Halloween vocabulary with these colorful flashcards! Students can learn  common Halloween words such as skeleton, pumpkin, candy corn, ghost, bat, mummy, spider, cat, zombie, werewolf, devil, Frankenstein, witch, and Dracula. Use the cards for vocabulary presentation, memory games, matching activities, speaking practice, or bulletin board displays. 

Label the clothes on the Witch!

Display a Halloween flashcard and ask students to identify and label the clothing items they can see. For example, with the Witch card, students can label the hat, belt, dress, and boots.

The best part is that this labeling activity can be done with any flashcard in the resource. 

Labeling Body Parts with a Dry-Erase Marker

 Place any Halloween flashcard from the resource inside a clear plastic sheet protector. Students use a dry-erase marker to label the body parts directly on the plastic. When they finish, they can erase the words and use the same card again.

This activity works with any character in the set. 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🦇

Label, Cut, and Glue Activity

Using the word labels included in the resource, students first trace the vocabulary words, then cut them out, and finally glue them next to the correct body parts or clothing items on the character.

Students can work individually, in pairs, or in small groups as they identify and match each word to the correct part of the picture.

The labeling cards included in the resource can be used with any of the Halloween characters, allowing you to easily adapt the activity for review.

 Picture Dictionary.

 Hand in the 3 pages for making the picture dictionary. It is a good idea to do this in groups. This is a cut and paste activity.

I love tracing cards. It is a spelling activity that can be done using the clear plastic sheet. Just as some native language students learn to trace words in Preschool some ESL learners benefits from tracing.

I made another set of tracing cards that can work as coloring cards. Practice coloring the body parts and/or the clothes.

Halloween accordion book

I made a smaller version of the tracing cards to create an accordion book. First, glue one card onto another.

Then, I folded all the cards into an accordion. 

I traced the cover onto cardboard to make the other part of the book. I glued the first page onto the cover and the last one onto the cardboard.

After coloring and assembling the Halloween characters, students can practice reading with their finished accordion books. 

ABC Order Halloween Activity

This Halloween ABC Order activity will use the Halloween flashcards from the resource. Students identify each picture, write the corresponding word, and then place all the words in alphabetical order on the worksheet.  It is an excellent activity for literacy centers, independent practice, early finishers, or whole-class review. 🎃📚👻

Spelling Bingo is always a fun game to play 

Use the small cards or the Big Flashcards to call the Bingo words. Students just write a playing word in each part of the spinner. They have to cross out the word that is being called if they have it.

If Spelling Bingo is not enough. Try Spelling Scrabble. I added the Scrabble letters. I printed them onto Halloween colored paper, I chose orange and purple. I did my example using the puppets, you can use any of the small cards in the resource.

I made all the characters into puppets using toilet paper rolls. Here are just a few and made a haunted house, it comes in two pages which you will have to glue to make a big one. I printed mine onto orange cardboard and colored the door, the windows and roof to review parts of the house.

Teacher: What color is the door?

Students: It’s brown!

Use the puppets to review the words.

Teacher: Who is he?

Students: He is the Mummy!

Teacher: Who is she?

Students: She is the Witch!

I also used the puppets to do prepositions practice.

Teacher: Where is the Devil?

Students: She is in front of the Haunted House!

 Teacher: Where is Frankenstein?

Students: He is behind the Haunted House!

Teacher: Where is the Witch?

Students: She is in the Haunted House!

Or have the students write about where the characters are.

Halloween Numbers Board Game

This Halloween-themed board game is a fun way to review numbers 1–20 . Students take turns rolling a die and moving along the board. When they land on a number, they say the number aloud.  The “Go Again” spaces add extra excitement. The game can be played in small groups, encouraging speaking. 

I taped an opened clip behind each game piece to make it stand as a marker.

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Weather Flashcards Activities for ESL EFL Learners

This is the Weather unit and the Flashcards activities for Elementary English Language Learners.   Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESL-EFL-3664474

Teaching the weather is essential in early language development for English language learners (ELLs). It helps students build foundational vocabulary that they can use in everyday conversations. The weather is something children experience daily, making it a meaningful and relatable context for learning.

Visual Flashcards help students connect vocabulary to real-life images, supporting word recognition and retention.

Flashcards activity 1. Display all the weather flashcards on the board. Point and ask about the weather using the descriptive adjectives related to weather conditions.

Teacher: What´s the weather like  today?

Students: It´s rainy.

Teacher: Is it snowy?

Students: yes, it is.

Teacher: Is it sunny?

Students: No, it isn´t.

Flashcards activity 2. Make a weekday chart on the board using your flashcards to describe the weather conditions.

Ask Questions.

Teacher: Today is Tuesday. What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s windy.

Have the students ask and answer more questions.

Flashcards activity 3. Order the flashcards by size. Have the students tell you how to order them on the board. Then ask questions.

Teacher: Which is the biggest?

Students: The sun!

Teacher: Which is the smallest?

Students: The snowflake!

And ask questions about color.

Teacher: What color is the sun?

Students: yellow!

Small Cards activity 4. Make patterns. Hand in the student´s flashcards.

Say a pattern order and have the students create them on their desks using the smaller version. Place the flashcards on the board for student´s correction. This makes for a good listening exercise.

Teacher: windy, cloud, lightning, sunny!

Flashcards activity 5. Express  weather likes. Place the weather flashcards on the board. Review all the weather flashcards that you have selected.

Hand in the small weather cards for the students to color and write their name on their favorite.

When they come to the board to place their card they have to express their opinion. 

Student: My favorite weather is sunny. 

Ask questions: Which weather has the most votes? ,Which weather has the least votes?, How many votes are there for sunny?

 activity 6. Games !

Game1. Spinners.

Give each student a spinner and a set of flashcards and questions to the group.

One student will be the reader and the rest will judge if the answer is correct. When a student answers a question correctly he or she colors a fraction of the spinner. If the answer is incorrect, he or he can´t color the spinner.  The first student to complete coloring the spinner is the winner. I made a colored version that you can add plastic contact paper or laminate, students can use board markers to color and the spinner can be erased and reused. If not, use the paper version. The spinner has 8 fractions.

Game 2. Cards around the room. Place the flashcards on the floor around the room following a path. Play some music or some weather sounds and have the children walk around the path of path. When the sounds stops they have to grab the card close to them and at your signal  show the flashcard and say the word.

Game 3. Have the children order the flashcards alphabetically. Give each group a set of flashcards and at your signal have them order the flashcards. The first group to finish calls STOP!

Game 4. Draw it. Divide the class into groups. Have them assign one student from each group to come to the front and draw the flashcards that you will show them. The first group to shout out the word wins a point.

 This Weather Unit Worksheets pack,included in the resource, offers a variety of printable activities — matching, coloring, drawing, word-search, sentence writing, and more — designed to make learning about weather engaging and meaningful for young learners.

Whether you use it for vocabulary practice, sentence building, or speaking and listening activities, this resource adapts well to different class levels and learning needs. Go to the blog post here and check them out:    https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/05/weather-unit-worksheets-for-elementary.html

And a freebie, Weather Flashcards in Spanish ( Tarjetas imprimibles del clima en español) ! Just for the teachers that are in a dual language class or teach Spanish anywhere. 

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There is more to the weather theme. Check this other resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-in-the-past-tense-for-Elementary-EFL-4976066

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