Halloween Storytelling

Bring Halloween storytelling to life with this illustrated small world play pack for EYFS, Reception and Year 1. Packed with friendly spooky characters, settings and story prompts, these Halloween activities help children develop oral storytelling, imagination and early writing.

Includes a 16-slide editable PowerPoint featuring the cute story ‘Willow and the Missing Broom’, followed by questions and prompts to help children create their own adventures.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• Editable PowerPoint slides with an illustrated model story, prediction questions, retelling prompts and storytelling guidance.
• Printable Halloween characters for small world storytelling.
• Illustrated settings, including a spooky castle.
• Story objects to inspire imaginative adventures.
• Story starter cards to introduce ideas and problems.
• Picture word mats to support vocabulary and early writing.
• Optional drawing and writing sheets for recording children’s stories.
• Separate PDFs for the storytelling resources and writing sheets.

BUILD CONFIDENT STORYTELLERS

Children can choose a character, explore a setting and use a special object to develop their story. Prompts encourage them to introduce a problem, think of a solution and sequence events using ‘First’, ‘Next’ and ‘Finally’.

Use the resources for:

• Halloween continuous provision and small world play.
• EYFS communication and language activities.
• Reception and Year 1 oral storytelling.
• KS1 speaking and listening.
• Partner talk and adult-supported group work.
• Drawing, labelling and simple sentence writing.

The friendly illustrations offer a gentle Halloween theme for young learners. Children can tell their stories through play, actions, words or sentences, with optional recording sheets to extend their ideas into writing.

The PowerPoint slides are editable so you can adapt the text and prompts for your class. Printable resources are supplied as PDFs.

Created by Little Learning Lane.