This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide, simple text PowerPoint presentation and a 50-question PowerPoint Quiz on Halloween.
Halloween Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The Origins of Halloween - All Hallows’ Day, All Souls’ Day and the rituals, traditions and customs surrounding these feasts.
The Origins of the Jack O’ Lantern
The Origins of Trick-or-Treat
The Origins of Apple Bobbing
The PowerPoint illustrates how, over time, Samhain, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day have merged to create the Halloween we know today. It ends with some questions to promote discussion. It also contains hyperlinks to Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City - the world’s largest Halloween parade and a link to a short video of the history of Halloween.
Halloween Quiz
This resource contains a 50 question PowerPoint quiz on Halloween and all things spooky! It is ideal for use with a tutor group or for an assembly during Halloween. Can you spot the trick question?
There are 3 multiple choice answers. The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to record answers.
Sample questions:
What date is Halloween celebrated on?
What do pumpkins grow on?
In Scotland, what vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o-lantern?
Why did people put lanterns outside of their homes?
What is the name given to a ghostly light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes?
What is the name for the fear of Halloween?
What does a real-life vampire bat live on?
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4 FPTs that can be made using offcuts of timber with accompanying activities, worksheets and starters. Fun and engaging. Fully adaptable resources. All projects are small decorations, but can be easily sized up.
A collection of halloween themed STEM club activities that can be used with STEM clubs or within science lessons.
Each activity includes
A List of equipment needed, how to set up and how to carry out the the practical
A colourful student instructions sheet
Any extra print outs needed for the activity
Eight Halloween themed activities included
Articulated hand
Balance the broom
Film Canister ghosts
Flying Ghost Tea bag
Oobleck
Pop up Paper cup ghosts
Tangrams
Vanishing Ghosts
A murder was committed last night during a Halloween party.
As the highest-ranking crime detective, you must solve the crime and find out who the murderer is.
You have the names and details of 32 suspects who were at the party when the crime took place. The murderer is one of them.
There were five witnesses to the murder. Each witness has left you a clue. The clues have been given in code so that only you, with your amazing code‐breaking skills, will be able to crack them and solve the crime.
You can decode the clues in any order you wish. Every time you solve a clue you can eliminate some suspects.
Each clue will remove half of the suspects from the list, until you are left with just one…
Who is the murderer?
Game Play
The murder mystery takes approximately 30 minutes based on players’ experience, skill, age and group size.
Extra Ideas
For groups or pupils who solve the mystery quicker than others why not have them write a secret message of their own for their classmates to decode.
You could have some keys printed out for them to use (e.g. Morse code, pig pen cipher, braille, semaphore etc… these are easily found with a quick web search)
You could suggest they hide a message in a passage of text (e.g. have their message in capitals or back words letters with in text) or for it to be read left to right.
They could design their own code / create symbols for each letter of the alphabet and use it to wrote a secret message.
A fun interactive whiteboard program with suggested activities for 31st October. It is packed with great drama games, writing activities and suggestions for cooking and games to play at your Halloween party. It has been created for students with special needs but is suitable for young mainstream students - enjoy.
Halloween Science Foldables
Simple to make, Halloween themed science foldables! Review key general science themes with a Halloween spin. The three foldables in this resource are set up in A4 format, are print ready and come with an accompanying answer key. There is an instructions box in the corner of each foldable too, to prompt children. The foldables can be applicable for a number of different grades as they draw on general science principles and can be used as a fun, science activity as Halloween approaches.
Included:
A Skeleton and bones foldable with answer page
This foldable includes simple questions on bones and the human skeleton. Children don’t require a great deal of knowledge of the skeletal system to complete this. Some of the questions can be ‘best guess’ style (e.g. How many bones do you think an adult skeleton has?) whilst others draw on key science principles (e.g. Which mineral keeps bones healthy?).
A cauldron chemicals foldable with answer page
The cauldron foldable focuses on simple chemicals and mixtures questions (e.g. What is a mixture? How would you separate sand and water?)
A pumpkin foldable with answer page
The pumpkin foldable includes questions which draw on science themes around food groups, plant pollination and energy (e.g. pumpkin plants have both male and female parts, how is pollen transferred between these parts?)
Students love chills and thrills!! Combine literary analysis and spine-tingleing stories with the Halloween Literature PowerPoint Bundle. Common Core-aligned product includes PowerPoints on Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Annabel Lee,” Roald Dahl’s "The LandLady, W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw,” and a bonus PowerPoint on gothic literature, which will give your students an opportunity to write their own spooky story. You and your students will love this!
170 Slides
A fun and educational crossword on Halloween. Full answer guide included in multiple formats to aid teachers in reviewing. Clues indicate the number of letters in the answers. Compact grid (15x15) created using specialist software.
Sample questions
17-across
Short, supernatural, mountain-dweller; lived under the Three Billy Goats Gruff’s bridge (5)
Answer - Troll
1-down
Operatic ghost (7)
Answer - Phantom
Get students choosing a TRICK or TREAT challenge. Each one is designed to test pace of reading, explore spell making skills, testing our different reading voices and so much more!
Once they complete them, get them sharing with their peers.
Click. Download. Present!
Encourcage your children to read more this Halloween with these 6 Halloween bookmarks for them to colour. Also included are blank bookmarks for your children to show their creativity.
Have some fun this Halloween with this complete set of resources to teach an amazing one off Halloween spectacular!
Using the Gothic Horror genre and Halloween tradition as inspiration, students will undertake a range of exciting and engaging comprehension and creative writing activities.
The pack includes a series of worksheets which accompany the lesson PowerPoint. The lesson structure is as follows:
Halloween general knowledge quiz
Video exploring the traditions of halloween
Class discussion about how Halloween has influenced film and literature
Analysing Gothic creatures in extracts from classic literature (inference and language analysis)
Creative writing activity in which students create their own monster
Partners draw the monster based on the description given
Learning review and exit ticket
Fun, action packed lesson that your students will never forget. Ideal for Key stage 2 and 3. Extension tasks, scaffolding and differentiation built in. Ready to roll with no adaptation required. Please leave feedback if you enjoyed teaching the lesson! Buy in confidence from a TES recommended author.
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These print and go Halloween maths worksheets are packed full of Year 1 National Curriculum objectives! Your pupils will love the Halloween theme while continuing to learn - plus giving you valuable evidence and assessment for learning for your planning. Primarily aimed at Year 1, many of the worksheets will also be suitable for more able Year R children or children in Year 2 who are working towards age related expectations.
In this resource you will receive worksheets for the following curricular objectives:
Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals
Count to and across 100
Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words
Add and subtract one and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0
Compare, describe and solve practical problems for mass/weight, capacity and volume
Recognise and know the denominations of coins
Sequence events in chronological order using language
Recognise and name common 2D shapes
An answer key is also included for ease of marking or to allow children to mark their own/others’ work.
This resource is available as part of a bundle where you will also receive a set of differentiated Halloween word problems:
Halloween maths bundle
Looking for other Halloween resources? Take a look here:
Halloween word problems (addition and subtraction)
Halloween segmenting - digital worksheet
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Dive into the world of math puzzles with Simultaneous Equations Picture Puzzles-Halloween Edition! This exciting task is your perfect introduction to solving systems of linear equations, where you’ll unravel intriguing puzzles by finding the hidden connections between variables. Piece by piece, students decode the visual mysteries, honing their mathematical skills and unleashing the problem-solver within. Dive into the world of math puzzles today!
Answers are included.
20 spooky Key Stage 2 (KS2) or early KS3 imaginative / creative writing story starters cards, featuring high quality photo prompts, vocabulary banks with descriptive words, prompt questions and more. Ideal to inspire horror or mystery stories with spooky setting descriptions for Halloween in October or use them throughout the year (as there is no direct mention of Halloween). These full-page story generators can be used across a range of abilities and ages, especially in Year 4, 5, 6 and 7 (Y4 / Y5 / Y6 / Y7), to spark ideas for stories. They’re great for reluctant writers and they have a dyslexia friendly format. PDF format (not editable for licensing reasons).
You can purchase this as part of this Creative Writing Story Prompts BIG BUNDLE 100 Prompts!.
Use as warm ups, early finishers activities and as a framework for free writing sessions
Each of the 20 A4 cards features a visual element (photo / picture stimulus), a starter sentence or part-sentence to help launch children into their fiction / narrative writing
Prompt questions to get ideas going
A word bank and suggested openers to add variety to their writing
A box at the bottom reminds students to read their work aloud, check for full stops and capital letters and common spellings
Range of scariness levels - Students who get more easily spooked can find prompts to suit them too.
UK and US English versions included, with spellings and references to ‘full stops’ and ‘periods’ etc amended as appropriate
Designed to offer maximum support for dyslexic learners and those with similar barriers to learning. Verdana font and spacing used are both dyslexia-friendly and the background colours are designed to reduce glare. Both the UK and US cards are also included with the background colours removed and could be used if printing on dyslexia friendly paper or card.
Could be used to support the writing of a full story
Could also work well as a regular tool to support struggling writers in one-to-one or small group sessions, where students write a few sentences inspired by the prompts, without worrying about completing a story
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KS2 Writing
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Full Stops and Capital Letters Cards
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Students produce their own meaningful Yayoi Kusama inspired pumpkin drawing design. This activity can be used for Key Stages 2 and 3 and is designed to engage students in mindful use of the Formal Elements, particularly poignant for Mental Health Week as Kusama has, and continues to have issues with her mental health and uses her art to support her well-being. This is also a great resource for Halloween too!
This is a PDF file pack of four pages as follows:
1 worksheet (including all task instructions and prompts) with a ghost template for the main task to support less-able students
1 worksheet (including all task instructions and prompts) without a ghost template for the main task to support more-able students
1 sheet of student example designs of the Kusama inspired pumpkin design drawings
1 sheet of facts/information about Yayoi Kusama and her connection to pumpkins and dot pattern work
This pack is suitable for integration within a natural form scheme, one-off lesson, and/or cover a session and takes approximately one to two lessons to complete if being produced to a high standard. I usually print this resource on A3 cartridge paper and my students work directly onto the sheet, but this could be printed A4 also if desired.
I have created many other drawing sheets of varying subject matters. These can be found in my Artyfind shop.
Get your children involved and writing creative stories this Halloween with our Halloween spooke generator.
Contains:
100 picture prompts
161,700 combinations
Fully Interactive
Great for creative writing!
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This bundle contains 14 of our spooktacular Halloween Resources:
Halloween - Playing Cards Snap or Go Fish: This pack contains 52 playing cards that can be printed out onto card and used as a fun Halloween resource. We recommend that you print out TWO sets and use them and pupils can use them to play snap with the deck.Alternatively, ‘go fish’ whereby all cards are put face down on the table and pupils have to try to match pairs. In both cases the person with the most sets wins. It is entirely up to you how you prepare these cards, But we recommend that you print them out, in colour onto paper or card cut around the top and bottom card (on the top and bottom left). We then fold the middle section and glue the pieces together and laminate the card to ensure it’s durability. Alternatively, you can just use the front of the card for ease of use.
Halloween - Spooky Reward Jars: This PowerPoint Contains four spooky reward jars to use with your pupils to positively reinforce good behaviour. A great Visual behaviour management strategy! Simply press the right arrow key to add an item to the jar and the left arrow key to delete it.
Halloween - Witches Brew - Random Name Generator - Random Name Generator: This is a fun way to ensure pupil participation in lessons this Halloween season. The PowerPoint is completely editable. It has space to up to 36 pupil names. We have suggested three of the 36 slides be used as ‘teacher to answer’ but this can easily be edited depending on the number of pupils in each class. Pupils names can be added to each slide and once in presentation mode, click anywhere on slide two and a name will be generated. N.B. the same pupil can be selected more than once on this presentation.
Halloween : Design your own Halloween Costume This is a fun Halloween activity that can be used as a fun Tutor Time activity or a whole school competition. You have a choice of giving the pupils a sheet with male and female figures to design their own costume or they can choose between a male or female figure on which to design their own wacky Halloween outfits. We print these out on A3 paper and display the best submissions on the wall. Pupils have to label each aspect of their costume and on the back of this sheet write a paragraph about their design together with some Halloween facts and information about the symbolism of each item they have used.
Halloween Conveyor Belt: This is based on the Generation Game activity. Surrounding some of the symbols oh Halloween. Useful for Starter, Plenaries and mini AFL activities throughout the lesson-Pupils love this activity!
Halloween Countdown Timers : This is a really spooktacular Halloween timer selection - If you love our other timers you will certainly love this! It comes complete with music! This is a fun countdown timer selection that can be used as a time management tool in any lesson. You have a choice between a 1, 2 or 5 minute, 10 or 15 minute timers and two different styles The Halloween bubble or the Jack-o-Lantern. You can alter the timings in the animation pane to make the timer shorter or longer should you so wish. These Halloween timers can be copied from this presentation and pasted and inserted into your own or on top of any slide you wish.
Halloween Bingo Super fun-Halloween Bingo: The PPT: 3 slides Booklet: 35 This PowerPoint contains 40 different Halloween items and 33 pre-set placemats. We have included a blank placemat for you to create your own if you so wish. We usually laminate the cards so that they can be reused by each class. Slide 3 contains 40 cards (facedown) click on a card to reveal the picture. Pupils must mark off this picture on their bingo card. The first person to mark off all of their icons is the winner.
Halloween: Full Moon Timers : This resource contains 6 PowerPoints complete with spooktacular Halloween full moon timers - If you love our other timers you will certainly love this! It comes complete with music! This is a fun countdown timer selection that can be used as a time management tool in any lesson. You have a choice between a 1, 2 or 5 minute, 10, 15 or 20 minute timers that can be used in full slide mode or can be used as a small timer in the corner of your own presentation. These Halloween timers can be copied from this presentation and pasted and inserted into your own or on top of any slide you wish. Please note-Due to file size, upon purchase you will be able to download a file that will give you a direct link to these resources.
The Spooktacular Halloween Quiz : This Spooktacular Halloween Quiz is FULLY INTERACTIVE and contains spook Halloween themed music.
This can be used within lesson , during Tutor Time or during an assembly for an ‘inter form’ end of term activity/ quiz.
This PowerPoint contains 114 slides.It even comes with a team selector and an interactive score board for you to keep tabs on the team’s points. There are 10 rounds that are randomly selected using the Spooktacular Selector. These are:
Skullteasers-This round contains 5 brain teasers riddles that pupils must try to solve.
Witches’ Brew-This round contains 8 word scrambles. The first team to get the answer right is awarded the point.
Zombified-This round contains 10 Movie trivia questions.
Trick ‘R Treat-This round contains 12 slides. Each containing two doors. The team must pick a door behind it will either be a trick or a treat. Your teacher will decide what the trick or treat will be. You could choose to take a point off their overall score or some sweets/chocolate! It is totally up to you what treat or forfeit they will encounter.
Scaredy Cat- This round contains 6 hair-raising celebrities in disguise. You can take away individual bits of the disguise by clicking the answer button.
Mind’s Eye- This round contains 7 Halloween items. Pupils must choose two members of their team to play this game. They sit back to back (one facing the board, the other facing away). They will have one minute to describe to their partner how to draw the item NOT THE OBJECT ITSELF! e.g. ‘place the pencil at the bottom of the paper in the centre and draw a diagonal line up to the middle of the page’ etc. This is a tricky game. So, pupils must concentrate. You can award the point to the team that performed the best.
Boo or False- This round contains 8 Halloween statements. Pupils must use the ‘show me boards’ or pieces of paper to write down if you think the statement is boo or false. Each team will be awarded a point for the amount you get correct. When discussing the answers they can ‘Boo’ for a true statement and groan like a zombie for a false statement.
Possessions-This round contains 8 questions based on the symbols of Halloween. Once again, it is useful to have ‘show me boards’ to write down the answer.
Jack-O-Jukebox-This round contains 12 SONG SUGGESTIONS relating to Halloween. The suggested songs are in the notes section of the PowerPoint. The songs can easily be found on YouTube should you not own copies. PLEASE NOTE that we have not included the songs due to copyright restrictions, but we have included the suggested songs for your reference.
Ghostly Game- 8 items here pupils have to describe the item to the player without using the word.
& Much more
This lesson covers the history of Halloween and why people celebrate it, but also how to celebrate safely - especially when it comes to ‘Trick or Treating’, from road safety at night, to choosing carefully which houses to knock the doors of.
This resource pack includes a one hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
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