Halloween Activities - Creative Writing, Literacy, Fun Tasks for High School
Bring spooky fun into your classroom without losing focus on learning!
This no-prep Halloween ELA resource is packed with 11 creative, skill-based activities that blend grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and creative writing into seasonal, high-engagement tasks. Students will be so caught up in the Halloween theme, they won’t even realize how many key English skills they’re practicing.
With visual templates, prompts, and a mix of independent and collaborative activities, this fully editable resource makes it easy to add October excitement to your lessons.
Perfect for:
- Full-period lessons in October
- Warm-ups or quick literacy boosts
- Group work or independent study
- Early finisher activities
- A fun seasonal homework task
This resource includes:
⭐ 11 standalone Halloween-themed activities
⭐ Visual templates and prompts to support engagement
⭐ Activities:
- Spooky Story Starters
- Language Feature Scavenger Hunt
- Build a Creature descriptive writing challenge
- The 100 Word Curse microfiction task
- Halloween Match-Up figurative language game
- Close Up Creepy reading comprehension
- Haunted Grammar Repair editing activity
- Dead Words Resurrection vocabulary upgrade
- The House on Grim Street formal writing task
- Halloween Wordsearch
- Haunted Genre Freestyle (choose your own spooky writing style)
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Engaging seasonal activities with a spooky twist to capture attention in October.
❤️ Skill practice in grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and creative writing, all disguised as fun.
❤️ Zero-prep lessons you can print or assign digitally and use right away.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A FLAT-PACKED version - often better to share with your students than the completely editable version because they can edit only the parts they SHOULD be mucking around with.
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
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✅ For fun junior high school projects, click here.
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