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

 This Thanksgiving colors ESL resource is also included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-3629423

Reviewing colors in a Thanksgiving setting introduces cultural elements while keeping vocabulary familiar. It gives learners an opportunity to use English meaningfully while exploring traditions.

The Thanksgiving monster help students with vocabulary retention. Students can write sentences about each monster Flashcard.

The flashcards can be sorted into person or thing.

Small cards can be used them for matching activities that keep students engaged while practicing language.

Color Match and Say. Place the pumpkin pie color cards face up. Give students color word cards (or say a color aloud). Students find and point to or hold up the matching pumpkin pie, saying:  “This is the orange pumpkin pie.”  “I see a brown pumpkin pie.”

Thanksgiving colors worksheets 1. Students read or listen and color the pies correctly.
Skills: reading comprehension, color recognition, following directions.

Worksheet 2. Seeing the color word and applying it through coloring helps students remember it better. If possible go over the items in a cornucopia.

Worksheet 3. The tasks are simple and achievable, giving young learners confidence as they correctly follow instructions and see a colorful final product they can be proud of.

Thanksgiving Colors Puzzle Game. Students practice reading simple color phrases repeatedly, helping them recognize sight words like a, blue, red, and pumpkin.

Thanksgiving Colors Board Game.  Students take turns rolling a die and moving along the path filled with colorful pumpkins. When they land on a space, they read the color word or sentence aloud — for example, “a green pumpkin” or “This pumpkin is orange.”

The teacher can also ask students to find and show the matching color card or color a small pumpkin on their pumpkin worksheet, seen above.

A pocket chart activity with color phrases like “a red pie” is perfect for hands-on sentence building and reading practice. Once all matches are made, read them together as a class for pronunciation and rhythm practice.

Including letter tiles for writing color words adds a strong literacy and spelling component to your lesson plan. Students practice letter recognition and sound-letter connections while building color words. These are reusable for other Thanksgiving lessons.

Thanksgiving Colors “Feed Me Box” Activity. Prepare the box using the pumpkin pie template. Students cut out the pumpkin pies from the worksheet — each one showing a different color. The teacher places the box at the front of the class or at a learning station.

Teacher: A blue pumpkin pie!

Students find the matching pumpkin pie and “feed” the box by dropping it inside.

Encourage students to say the sentence as they feed it, for example:
 “This is a green pie.”

Continue until the box is full of deliciously colorful pies!

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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

 This resource is also included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-3629423

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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