Here are 20 Halloween activities to write on the board. They should keep your students very busy. Give them a few at a time or use them as activities to work through over a week.

1. Write 2 reasons why you like Halloween and 2 reasons why you don't.

2. Draw a spooky graveyard with 6 gravestones, a rusty gate and a dead tree.

3. Write 10 Halloween related words (ghost, scary)

4. Imagine your best friend at school is a vampire. Write three things that he or she does at school that seems a bit odd.

5. What would a witch take to school for lunch. Draw a lunch bag filled with a witch's lunch. Label each item so we know what it is.

6. Unjumble these jumbled words.

ACRDAUL (Dracula) HTIWC (witch) CDYNA (candy) SKMA (mask)

7. Draw a green monster with sharp blue claws, red bulging eyes, two yellow horns, large teeth, a long tail, and spikes on its back.

8. Write a sentence describing a zombie. Include 3 adjectives in the sentence.

9. Write a paragraph describing what it feels like to be a Halloween Pumpkin.

10. Write out a Halloween style alphabet. A is for the apples bobbing in the bucket, C is for the cat that follows the witch, D is for the dark moonless night and so on.

11. Put these Halloween words in alphabetical order: spell, witch, pumpkin, broom, cauldron, ghost, scream, candy, costume, trick, treat, zombie, bat, vampire, coffin, grave, wizard

12. Design a "Lost!" poster for your pet bat. Draw a picture of the bat, write it's name, when it was last seen, where it was last seen and what reward you are offering.

13. Imagine your friends have dared you to go inside a haunted house. Write a paragraph describing what it is like inside.

14. Write three reasons why you might feel sorry for a zombie.

15. Imagine you have been given a pet tarantula spider for a present. Describe how you plan to look after it. Where will you keep it? What will you feed it? What special needs does it have?

16. Design your own Halloween costume. Draw it on an A4 piece of paper and include labels.

17. If you could only have 10 different pieces of candy in your trick or treat bag what 10 types of candy would you choose to have? If you don't know the name of them just write a description.

18. What is your favourite Halloween game? Write a sentence or two explaining why.

19. List 10 possible Halloween costumes.

20. Imagine you bump into a real werewolf on Halloween night. Write a paragraph describing what happens. What did the werewolf do? What did you do?

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