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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Beach Prepositions Activities with Sandcastle and Crab | ESL ELL

 This resource is included in Beach Unit for Elementary at this link:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beach-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4075972

This resource gives students a fun and meaningful way to practice prepositions in context to include in your lesson plan. Using a playful sandcastle and a red crab helps young learners visualize spatial relationships. The activities support comprehension, speaking, and sentence-building skills.

Copy Cat Writing and Drawing Flashcard Activity. Use thin paper to place it over the top of the flash card and copy with markers and crayons. They can also copy out the prepositions.

Show your class any preposition flashcard and ask questions: Where is the crab?

Ask questions to your students, but fold the preposition word on the flash card.

Listen & Draw the Crab Worksheet. Students practice understanding prepositions in context. Then, show the flashcard for them to check.

Write a Sentence. Students draw a picture small card and a preposition card, then say or write a sentence (e.g., The crab is under the sandcastle.).

Roll and color the Prepositions Worksheet. A student rolls the preposition die. Depending on the preposition it lands on (e.g., on, under, next to, in front of, behind, in), they find the matching picture on the worksheet. As a speaking practice: After rolling, students say the sentence aloud (The crab is under the sandcastle.) before coloring.

Fill-in-the-blank worksheet with prepositions. Provide a word bank with prepositions (in, on, under, behind, next to, in front of) using the small cards or flashcrads from the resource.

Color-by-instruction worksheet — very effective for ELLs because it combines reading comprehension, vocabulary, and coloring fun.

A Q&A worksheet helps students practice both forming and answering questions with prepositions. Then do a Pair Work Role-Play, where One student asks: “Where is the red crab?”The partner answers: “It is under the sandcastle.”

Read the sentence on the worksheet and draw + color the crab in the correct place on the sandcastle. It encourages careful reading and understanding of simple preposition sentences.

Sandcastle + Crab Cutouts. Teacher says: “Put the crab under the sandcastle.” Students move the crab cutout to the correct position. It builds listening comprehension and preposition vocabulary.

I also added a sentence puzzle set to the resource! Each puzzle piece has part of a sentence with the sandcastle and crab images. Students put the pieces together to form complete sentences, such as “The red crab is next to the sandcastle.” This activity helps learners practice reading, sentence structure, and preposition vocabulary in a hands-on way.

Students move along the path on the board game, read the spaces, and practice prepositions in a playful way. It’s a great way to bring all the activities together and give students extra practice in a fun, cooperative format.

 

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