Friday, September 29, 2023

Face Unit and Halloween Activities for Kindergarten ESL/EFL Learners

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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.

Halloween Face Flashcard Guessing Game

Place the large flashcards on a classroom wall. One student closes their eyes while another students secretly chooses a flashcard (for example, witch).

The class gives clues by naming the parts of the face: It has big eyes. It has a small nose. It has a happy mouth. It has orange hair.

The student listens to the clues and points to the correct flashcard.

Show the witch flashcard.Ask questions.

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.

witch flashcard

Small Cards for Speaking Practice

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

Face Race

Place the small cards face up on a table. Call out a Halloween character from the resource (for example, ghost, skeleton, or monster). Students race to collect the character and then point to the parts and say the vocabulary aloud: "Eyes, nose, mouth!" If it is correct, stduent keeps the card. The winner is the one with most cards.

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

Halloween Jack-O-Lantern printable book

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)


witch’s finger pointer

Take a look at the pages of the book.

Here is the video of the book: 

The same works for the puppet.


Halloween and face worksheets

Students will listen carefully and follow the teacher’s directions: Trace and color the bat’s eyes red!


Students complete their jack-o'-lantern faces and color them using their favorite colors. During Show and Tell, each student describes their pumpkin by talking about its eyes, nose, mouth, and colors. This activity helps children practice Halloween vocabulary, colors, and simple speaking skills in English.

Zombie Face Race

Give each student a zombie worksheet and a crayon. The teacher calls out a face part and a color, such as "Draw a red nose!" or "Color the hair green!" Students quickly complete that part on their zombie. The first student to correctly complete the instruction earns a point, and the game continues until the zombies are finished.


Create and Name Your Ghost

Students draw the parts of the ghost’s face any way they like. They can add eyes, a nose, a mouth, eyelashes, eyebrows, or any other fun details to make their ghost unique. When they finish, students give their ghost a name and introduce it to the class by saying, “This is Ghosty. He has big red eyes and a happy smile!”


Students listen to the teacher’s instructions and point to the correct parts of the monster’s face on their worksheets.

The finger pointer could be used with the 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.

Labeling the face of the Halloween characters

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.

Halloween Faces Classroom Banner

Reuse the Halloween face worksheets to create a fun classroom decoration.Display the cutout of the characters on a clothesline banner. 


Go to the blog post Halloween Buckets and Candies, here:https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2025/10/halloween-buckets-and-candies.html

This bundle provides complete Halloween-themed ESL lessons designed specifically for Kindergarten English Language Learners.

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




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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