Here is a simple worksheet where your learners can design their own Halloween pumpkin. The exercise is intended to introduce the Halloween holiday to learners, get them talking about the holiday, how it is celebrated, and why we create pumpkin lanterns for this particular holiday. This exercise is aimed at younger learners, but it can be fun for all ages. Students will need items like pens, pencils, colouring pencils, crayons and a good imagination.

Perfect for the Halloween season, this exercise is aimed at an older age group. Using the story of Mary Shelley, the students are challenged to write their own short ghost story for Halloween. The first sheet briefly introduces the story of Mary Shelley and how she was inspired to write ‘Frankenstein’, followed by two sheets, one of questions to try and trigger ideas amongst your students, the second of suggested words to help as writing prompts.

This exercise is a basic reading and comprehension worksheet, designed to introduce the topic of the Diwali festival to students. This is also a great way to get your learners talking about festivals and holidays, particularly students from diverse backgrounds who celebrate non-western holidays. We see a young Hindu girl, Tanya, describing how she celebrates Diwali with her family. A series of questions then follows to see how your students understand the text.

A brief exercise to get your pupils talking about festivals and holidays. There are a small number of the most popular and well-known festivals from different cultures in coloured boxes. Students are asked to circle the holidays they celebrate. This exercise can be used to start a conversation about what holidays they celebrate, which holidays they know about and which they have never heard of.

Ideal for all levels (but primarily aimed at children and young adults) this is a fun starter activity word search to help warm up a group of learners or introduce vocabulary and spelling relevant to the Halloween holiday.