Ideas for Fun ESL Halloween Lessons | Top 10 Halloween ESL Games and Activities for All Ages

If you’re looking for some fun ESL Halloween activities and game ideas, then you’re in the right place. We have all the top ideas, along with lesson plans, worksheets and more. Make Halloween this year extra special with these top picks for English learners. ------------------- • History of Halloween for Kids : https://youtu.be/kTJUeOAkj6o ------------------- • Check out my blog if you want to find more information about Halloween ESL Games, Activities, Lesson Plans & More https://eslspeaking.org/esl-halloween-games/ 63 ESL Holiday Games and Activities book: https://amzn.to/3S24V1m -------------------- https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #learningenglishwithjackie #halloweenactivities ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript for Halloween ESL Activities and Games: Let's talk about my favourite ESL Halloween activities. The first activity you can do is a costume contest. Encourage your students to dress up, give a few prizes, and have some fun with it. That leads me to the second Halloween activity which is having a party. So there are a ton of games you can do, scary movies, music, food, snacks, that kind of thing if you're able to have a Halloween party. And get students to help you plan it, of course. The third one is trick-or-treating. This is a fun one to do if students can go from classroom to classroom and then in each classroom, they can collect a little treat or a piece of candy, something like that. The next one is a haunted classroom. Students can help you decorate your classroom and then other classrooms can participate as well. And then you can do kind of a little walk about, where students go from classroom to classroom, checking out the scary sights. The next Halloween activity is a scary story or a creepy story. If you tell students, tell me a scary story, it's not going to be a great activity to do. If someone told me to tell a scary story, in English, on the spot I maybe would struggle with it a little bit even though I speak English perfectly. If you give students a bit of time to prepare their story and they can write it down, the activity will go much more smoothly. The next one is a pumpkin carving contest. If you can get your hands on some pumpkins in the country that you're living in buy a few of them and then maybe put students in groups of three or four or five and they can come up with a decoration a pattern and then carve their pumpkin. Better yet, make it a contest. The next one is charades or Pictionary. If you teach students a bunch of Halloween vocabulary, consider playing charades or Pictionary to review that vocabulary. This is also a great activity for a Halloween party. The next one is what am I. So you maybe have played that little party game before where there's a Post-It note with a word or a person or an animal written on it and then you put it on your back. And then you have to ask yes or no questions to the other people at the party to find out who or what you are. You can do this with Halloween words as well. The next one is a candy-tasting contest. Bring in some blindfolds, and bring in some candies that are popular in the country where you live. The best ones I find are things like Skittles or M&Ms that are already just like a single piece. However, you can use chocolate bars and just kind of cut them up into little tiny pieces before you get to class. And then I divide the students up into teams, maybe like three or four different teams. And one student from each team comes and sits in a chair, puts on a blindfold and then they would each try three different candies. The next one is guessing the pumpkin weight. So buy a big pumpkin, bring it into class, and then students have to submit a guess as to how much it weighs. And then on the day before Halloween or on Halloween, I'll reveal the weight and the winner. Okay, so those are my top 10 ESL Halloween activities. Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:08 Costume contest 0:23 Halloween party 0:38 Trick or treating 0:57 Haunted classroom 1:12 Scary or creepy store 1:36 Pumpkin carving contest 1:53 Charades/Pictionary 2:08 What am I? 2:29 Candy tasting contest 3:20 Guess the pumpkin weight 3:44 Conclusion Tags: Ideas for Fun ESL Halloween Lessons, Halloween ESL Games and Activities, halloween activities for adults,halloween esl games,halloween games for english learners,esl halloween activities,halloween games esl,halloween activities esl,halloween esl activities,halloween speaking activities, english learning, halloween classroom, esl games,