Halloween Games

Concentration

Materials: deck of playing cards or printed Halloween theme cards for younger classes
How to play: have pairs of cards, facedown in a rectangle. Players turn two cards over in turn and keep pairs.

Speed game

Golden Bell

Describe a picture

Materials: paper, coloring pens or crayons
How to play: teams in pairs or small teams of 3 or 4. One member sees and describes the picture with only words to the team members who draw.
Good for English – use present continuous to describe action, “in the upper left corner”, “at the top of the picture”, “in the center”

6. Eyeball Relay

Materials: 1 Ping pong ball for each team (painted like an eyeball), 1 spoon for each team
How to play: Divide children into teams. Give the first child on each team a spoon and a ping pong ball. Set up the course to where they have to carry the “EYE” on the spoon to the end of the course and come back. Hand off to the next child and continue until all children have played on the team. First team done wins!

Telephone Line

Materials: pre-printed phrase, piece of paper, pencil
How to play: two teams (the bigger, the better). First person reads the phrase and whispers to the next person who in turn whispers to the next. The last person writes the phrase. The team that comes closest to the original phrase wins.
Phrases:
- ” Don’t move! There’s a gigantic spider behind you! “
- ” Have you ever noticed that it only ever seems to rain when you have to go somewhere? “
- ” Sally sells sushi by the seashore. “
- ” Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Witches and zombies and vampires, oh why? ”
- ” May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows. “

Ghost Waiter

Materials: Balloon for each team, paper plate for each team
How to play: Divide children into teams. Set up a course for them to race on. The child has to balance a balloon on a paper plate while walking it down the course and back to their team.

Trick or Treat Game

Materials: Paper, pencil
How to play: Have the children write the words “Trick or Treat” on a piece of paper. Set a timer. See how many words they can make out of “Trick or Treat”. Let children eat treats while they create the words.

Halloween Hangman

Materials: None other than our whiteboards and board markers
How to play: Hangman with Halloween themed words like vampire, witches, potion and haunted. We can also try using whole sentences. Create a spooky, Halloween themed sentence like
English: kids probably won’t get much hangman drawn, but it is a good educational Halloween game that gets kids using their spelling skills as they try to work out the words in the sentence.
Words
- bones, zombie, ghost, ghoul, trick or treat, Dracula, Frankenstein, Grim Reaper, boo, scream, scary, bat, spider, scarecrow, mummy, October, skeleton, spooky, witch

Halloween Wheel of Fortune in Teams

Teams guess a letter. If they guess a correct letter, then they can try to guess the word.