Face Unit and Halloween Activities for Kindergarten ESL/EFL Learners

Halloween is included in the Face Unit resource. Click here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Face-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-6-6057570

Halloween is the perfect time to review face vocabulary while introducing fun seasonal characters. Young English Language Learners love talking about witches, ghosts, vampires, mummies, and Frankenstein, making Halloween an engaging context for practicing facial features such as eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, and hair. By connecting familiar vocabulary with a holiday theme, students develop language skills in a meaningful and memorable way

   

 Halloween Face Vocabulary Activities 

Here is a set of heads flashcards of the most common Halloween characters.

Introduce Halloween characters and review facial features through colorful flashcards. Ask simple questions to encourage speaking practice:

Teacher: What color are the witch's eyes?
Students: Green!

Show the witch flashcard.
Teacher: Who’s this?
Students: Witch.
Have a student come to the front and touch a facial feature of the witch.
Teacher: Point to the eyes!
Teacher: What color is her hair?
Students: orange.

Small Cards for Speaking Practice

Use the small cards for guessing games, partner activities, and vocabulary review.

An easy Halloween Jack-O-Lantern printable book is just fine to add up to the students’ collection. It comes along a puppet template.

You can make the witch’s finger ahead of time to use as a pointer or have the students make them. This helps the students point to the parts of the face in the book and to read the words.
Teacher: Point to the eyes! Use the witch’s finger.
Teacher: Let’s read! My eyes. (Students point to each word)

Take a look at the pages of the book.

Here is the video of the book: 

The same works for the puppet.

The finger pointer could be used with the worksheets.

Several Halloween worksheets.

Students will listen and color the parts of the face: Color the eyes green!

Color the word skeleton!

Children can now cut the skeleton out of the worksheet and glue it on thick craft stick to create a mask puppet.

Here I am with the mask.

Label the Face Activities

Provide worksheets where students identify and label facial features on Halloween characters. This reinforces reading and vocabulary recognition while developing early writing skills.

After labeling, students can color the faces and describe them using simple sentences.

Labeling the face of the Halloween characters is another option for the worksheet, besides doing the listen and color.

You can do What’s missing with almost all the worksheets.

Teacher: Color the eyes orange! And the nose?

Students will look confused.  Well, let draw and color  the missing facial parts.

Draw and color the nose purple!

Craft and Puppet Activities

Turn completed Halloween faces into puppets by attaching craft sticks. Students can use the puppets for role-play and speaking practice.

Student: Look! My vampire has red eyes!
Student: My ghost has a big mouth!

After the worksheet is colored as you dictated, have the students cut out the face. Use yarn to wrap up the parts of the face and make another craft stick puppet.

Showing off the mask.

Check what else is included in the resource here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2023/08/eye-monsters-for-face-unit-to-teach.html

This resource is available individually, here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Face-Unit-and-Halloween-Activities-for-Kindergarten-ESLEFL-Learners-17548879

Are you teaching the face unit to older students? Find more resources here:https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/09/face-unit-worksheets-for-elementary-efl.html

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