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

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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. Cut each flashcards into several pieces.

 Encourage speaking practice as students say the food item they found.: 

“I have a hamburger.”

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.

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.

Here are a few ideas for creating your stand in an easy and simple way.

Idea 1:  Place a  table against a wall, attach the Halloween Food Stand sign from the resource  above the table, and display the food flashcards in rows. Students take turns being the seller and the buyer.

Ideas 2: Use the bulletin board in the classroom and place the Halloween sign at the top. Attach the food flashcards with Velcro or pushpin so students can remove and "buy" items. Add price tags and play money.

 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.

Halloween Character Favorites food speaking activities

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

Halloween Food worksheets for ESL

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

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.

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. 🎃👻🍕🍔

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 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 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 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.

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.

Halloween food puzzle worksheet 

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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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Routine Verbs Worksheets for ESL/EFL learners

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To support and extend learning, this resource also comes with a set of  easy to use routine verbs worksheet designed specifically for  Primary English Language Learners. Help young ESL/ELL students master daily routine verbs with printable worksheets — matching, writing, sentence practice & ready-to-use activities.

Use the worksheets for Pair / Group / Independent Work.  

 A printable worksheet to match routine verb words with pictures. Then, have the students write what is true for them in simple present tense.

 

Comple the present simple verb tense in the blank spaces worksheet and another one answering What do you do?

An activity worksheet to write the  negative sentence into an affirmative one. The other worksheet is to write sentences.

Use these for Literacy centers, send as Homework, for Review and assessment and finally for Sub plans.

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My Lunch Box! ESL Food Activities for Elementary ELLs

 This resource ( My Lunch Box! – ESL Food Activities for Elementary ELLs (Flashcards, Worksheets & Games) is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters.

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Move beyond your coursebook to provide different activities to your students with this hands-on Lunch Box Resource designed for young English language learners! This pack helps students review food vocabulary, ideal for centers, whole-class games, or independent work. Teach food vocabulary with this printable "Lunch Box" pack for elementary ESL/ELL learners — flashcards, sorting, writing, games & speaking activities included.

One of the best ways to support vocabulary development in young English language learners is through visual scaffolding using the ready-to-use printable flashcards. Use them to introduce food items that goes into a lunch box.

 Sorting activity. Once familiar with the vocabulary, move into an interactive sorting task activity. Start by having students sort the lunch box items into basic categories like fruits and drinks. Add additional categories such as colors, what I like / don’t like.  Perfect for  whole-class sessions. 

Writing & Speaking Practice.  Place a lunch box flashcard on the board and several flashcards of items that go into the lunch box. Draw an arrow to the flashcard as you say: I like grapes! Continue until all items have an arrow.

Then, have a student come up and prepare the lunch box with the items that of his/her preference using the flashcards. Have them write down on their notebooks what they came up with on the board.

Have students talk about making sandwiches using the flashcards. Here is my example:  I am making a sandwich! What do I need?
Students: bread! Strawberry jelly, peanut butter! (place the corresponding flashcards)
Students can make another sandwich with other flashcards.

Speaking activity. Hold up a flashcard and ask: Do you like grapes?
Invite the students to raise their hands if they do and say: I like grapes!

Say, make a sad face if you don’t like it. Teacher: Do you like grape juice? 
Students: I don’t like grape juice.

 
The small cards add another layer of creativity. Students choose the items they want to "pack" in their lunch box using the cards, then use those choices to write a short text such as “In my lunch box, I have an apple, a sandwich, and some juice.” This encourages vocabulary recall and sentence construction.  Perfect for centers.

Small cards guessing game: cut off the word of each vocabulary card, turn the cards face down, and place number tokens on top. Students call out a number, turn over the card, say the word, and then match it to the correct picture. This builds confidence in speaking.  Perfect for  pair work.

These worksheets have students match words to pictures, writing the correct vocabulary word to reinforce word recognition in context.

Sorting worksheet where students categorize food items into three groups: drinks, fruit, and other. This activity encourages students to think critically about word meanings and food types.

One worksheet helps students practice numbers and food vocabulary together. Students count how many items appear in the lunch box (e.g., apples, sandwiches, juice boxes) and write the correct number.

The other worksheet encourages students to share their personal preferences about lunch box items.

A worksheet for students color the sandwiches based on a simple text.

The other, Write a short text about the lunch box. Using sentence starters like “In my lunch box, I have...” or “I like... but I don’t like...”, they build complete, meaningful sentences using the new vocabulary.

There is a worksheet that features a black-and-white lunch box template for students to complete. They can either draw their chosen lunch items or cut and paste from magazines.  Once their lunch box is complete, students move on to the to write a description about their lunch box using simple sentences.

The other option is to complete the lunchbox according to the vocabulary box.

Find a large image of a slice of bread, where students can draw and design their own sandwich by adding their favorite ingredients—lettuce, cheese, tomato, ham, or anything they like! This creative task allows to write about their sandwich.

Lunch Box Interactive Game Board! It combines speaking, vocabulary, and a touch of strategy. Students take turns moving around the board using markers (included), landing on different lunch box items.

If they can name the food where they land, they collect the item by choosing the matching card, that they place on the lunchbox template provided. When the game is over, they write what they have with sentences like:
“In my lunch box, I have grapes, cheese, and a cookie.”

Lunch Box Puzzle Game. Each puzzle piece shows a food or drink item (e.g., apple juice, sandwich, cheese) along with the word written in bold, easy-to-read text. Students match the word to the correct image by assembling the puzzle pieces.

Ideas to Play:

1. Basic Matching: Give students a pile of puzzle pieces. Have them find and match the correct word and image. Use it as a fast-finisher or center activity.

2.Memory Match: Cut the pieces apart and turn them over. Students flip two pieces to try and find a matching image and word.

3.Speaking Practice: When a student makes a match, they must say a sentence like:

“I have a banana.” or “I like apple juice.”

4. Lunch Box Challenge: Give each student 5–6 random puzzle pieces. They "pack" a lunch by selecting their favorite items, then write a sentence:

“In my lunch box, I have grapes, a cookie, and juice.”

 

Check the Thanksgiving food theme added to this complete resource: 

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/11/thanksgiving-food-activities-for-ells.html

 

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Routine Verbs Small Cards for ESL/EFL learners

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Help young ESL/ELL learners practise daily routine verbs with printable small cards — matching, games, writing and vocabulary practice included.

Mastering everyday routine verbs is a foundational skill for elementary ESL/ELL learners — and can be challenging without visual support and repetition. This printable Routine Verbs Small Cards Pack makes verb practice interactive and fun. Through matching games, cut-and-paste activities, and sentence writing, students will build confident understanding of verbs like eat, sleep, brush, go while engaging in active learning.

Play Slap with the small picture cards to review verbs quickly . Spread out the cards on the floor or a table face up. One student can be the caller, give him /her the slap caller badge and the other players will be the slappers, who will slap the correct card. The one that does it first keeps the slapped card. Continue until all the cards have been called. The winner is the one with most cards.

For the game I made these slap caller necklace. I cut and glued them onto fun foam, punched a hole and thread yarn into the hoop. I use them to have the group respect the caller and be more organized at playing the game. You can play with any set of word and use the necklace but change the caller every time. You can even write on the back of the necklace the caller´s name so you choose a different child every time.

Cut-and-Paste Routine Verbs small cards Activity. This activity includes two matching sets: One set with routine action words cards with the word on it, another set with pictures of each action.  Students cut out the pictures and paste them on top of the correct verb word.  Use it to recognize and read routine vocabulary.

Picture + Word Matching Activity. This version flips the challenge. Each everyday verb card shows a picture of a routine action, and there’s correct verb word to match. This activity helps English language learners to focus on visual comprehension first. Have students write sentences on their notebooks using simple present tense: She brushes her hair.

Spelling Verb Bingo Game. Place all the verb small cards on the board. Have the children select only 6 and write them down on their paper. Call out a word and place a tick on the flashcard. Use the small cards for calling the verbs. Children cross the words as they have it on their spelling bingo grid.

Print the camera for any game in a bright construction paper. Have several more printed as well.

Students of all ages like the camera. Use the camera to have the children name each verb as you pass the picture, you can make the strip as long as you want.  

Writing / Sentence Practice. I also included the photo clip art, children either draw the verb, look them up in magazines and cut them or simply cut them from the small cards here. They can also write the verb or write complete sentence in the simple present tense using the verbs. 

They can make a photo album using their own pictures and write sentences under each photo.

 

Check the Routine Verbs Worksheets Pack that comes in the complete resource. It offers picture-verb matching, fill-in blanks, writing and negative/affirmative sentence activities perfect for practice, review, homework, or literacy centers. With ready-to-use worksheets, you’ll make verb practice fun, clear, and meaningful for young students.

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/08/routine-verbs-worksheets-for-eslefl.html

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