The Halloween Pack

Celebrate this spooky time of year with our teaching resource pack! It includes a Halloween topic guide, a range of cross-curricular activity resources, display materials and much more!

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In this Teaching Pack…

• One 10 Page Guide to Halloween – A PowerPoint / PDF guide to Halloween covering the origins of the festival, how it is celebrated today, ‘trick or treating’, Halloween symbols and traditions, fascinating facts and more!
• One 10 Page Halloween Key Facts Guide – A simpler version of our Halloween Guide for younger readers.
• One Halloween Video Guide – Learn about the history of Halloween by watching our video guide with your children!
• Two Halloween Quizzes – Review your children’s knowledge of this topic by using these quizzes. They are available as two printable quiz sheets or as an interactive PowerPoint presentation.
• Twelve ‘Halloween Around the World’ Cards – Find out how Halloween (and other festivals of the dead) are celebrated in different countries with these printable cards. Use them as a reference / comprehension resource or add them to your classroom displays.
• One ‘Vampire Escape’ Game – Learn about Halloween celebrations around the world with our printable game! Who will be the first to escape from the vampire and get back to Granny’s cosy cottage by answering questions about Halloween?
• Two ‘Spot the Spooky Spellings’ Challenges – Can your children identify the correct spelling of each Halloween word?
• Three Spooky Spelling Spotters – Can your children find the incorrect spellings in these Halloween stories?
• Ten Sets of Halloween Newspaper Headlines – Challenge your students to write newspaper articles based on these spooky headlines!
• Fifteen Halloween Story Starters – A selection of images and story openers to use during your writing tasks.
• Four Pages of Writing Prompt Cards – Cut out the cards, jumble them up, pick a card and write (or tell) a story based on it!
• Three Sets of Halloween Story Cards – Choose a character, object and plot from these cards and use them as the starting point of a creepy Halloween story!
• Three Halloween Clue Solvers – Challenge your students to use the clues to complete the missing numbers on each table.
• One Set of Joke Code Breakers – Use the code grid to work out these Halloween jokes and their hilarious answers!
• Three Halloween Cup Characters – Cut out the different parts of these Halloween characters and stick them to paper cups (or cardboard tubes).
• Four Halloween Cone Characters – Decorate these templates and then fold them to make a spooky cone decoration!
• Four Folding Halloween Cards – A variety of 3D card templates to share at Halloween.
• Four Halloween Jigsaws – Cut out these jigsaw pieces and put them together to make a spooky picture!
• Three Halloween Comprehension Crosswords – Read the text and answer the questions correctly to complete the spooky crossword puzzle!
• Three Sets of Comprehension Questions – A set of comprehension questions based on some Halloween-themed stories.
• Ten Halloween Picture Prompts – What spooky sentences, paragraphs and stories will your children write about these images?
• Eight Halloween Picture Quizzes – Look at the pictures and challenge your children to answer the questions based on them. These resources are available on printable sheets and in an interactive PowerPoint presentation.
• Ten Spooky Jokes Posters – Celebrate the spooky season by adding these hilarious jokes to your Halloween display board!
• Twenty Halloween Early Morning Activities – Different activities that you can use at the start of the day (or as tasks for early finishers). These include a range of English topics, Maths activities, design challenges and more!
• One Halloween Word Mat – A helpful mat that shows a range of words related to Halloween. Use this as a reference resource during your writing and other activities!
• One 20 Page Halloween Image Pack – A set of posters that can be used as the starting point for discussions about this topic or to decorate your learning environment!
• One Halloween Word Bank – A collection of Halloween-themed words, sorted into nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. This resource is also available in a ‘jumbled’ format so that your children can sort the words themselves.
• Twelve Halloween Picture Word Banks – Explore these spooky pictures together and think of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs related to them. Then, use those words in descriptive sentences and paragraphs.
• Twenty Spooky Starters – Use these introductory sentences and paragraphs as inspiration for your own Halloween-themed writing!
• One ‘How to Make Halloween Biscuits’ Sheet – Follow this recipe to make some tasty treats at Halloween!
• One Halloween Biscuits Recipe Sorting Activity – Challenge your students to cut and stick these jumbled recipe cards in the correct order!
• Six Sets of Halloween Story Dice – Roll the dice and use the pictures as the starting point for your own Halloween stories! They include a variety of spooky characters, settings and objects.
• Eight Halloween Diary Templates – Can your children write some diary entries for these spooky characters?
• One Halloween Story Generator – Roll a die and use the ideas on this sheet as the starting point for your own Halloween story!
• One Halloween Anagrams Task – Can your children rearrange the letters to make Halloween vocabulary?
• One Halloween Acrostic Template – Write an acrostic poem about Halloween with this handy template!
• Three ‘Halloween I Spy’ Sheets – Simple Halloween-themed counting activities to challenge younger children.
• Four Halloween Picture Puzzles – Challenge your children to solve the Maths calculations and then colour the grid to make a Halloween picture!
• Eight Halloween Dot to Dot Puzzles – A collection of ‘dot to dot’ puzzles that challenge your children to create a Halloween picture by drawing lines between the numbers. Available at a range of difficulty levels.
• Six Halloween Mazes – Can your children find their way through these creepy mazes?
• Six Halloween ‘Spot the Differences’ – Can your children find the differences between the spooky pictures in these puzzles?
• Four ‘Spook Yourself’ Activities – Let your children transform themselves into spooky characters! These printables can be used as a fun art activity, and they will look amazing on a display board too.
• Four Halloween Cut and Stick Characters – Cut out the different parts of these Halloween characters, decorate them and then stick them back together! You could also use split pins to make characters with movable arms and legs.
• One ‘Decorate the Pumpkins’ Sheet – Use different Art materials to decorate these pumpkins with faces, colours, patterns and more!
• One ‘Decorate the Ghosts’ Task – How many different ways can your children decorate these ghost outlines?
• Five ‘Copy the Picture’ Pages – Can your children use the grids to copy these Halloween illustrations?
• Twenty Halloween Colouring Pages – A set of pictures showing spooky characters and settings (at a variety of complexity levels) that your children can colour.
• One Halloween Crossword – Can your children use the clues to solve this Halloween-themed crossword?
• One Halloween Word Search – Review Halloween vocabulary with this printable word search.
• Three Sets of Halloween Bunting – Hang this bunting in your classroom at spooky times of the year!
• Two Halloween Banners – Banners to add to your spooky classroom display boards.

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