Monday, October 6, 2025

Halloween Buckets and Candies Activities for Kindergarten ELL

 This resource is part of the Beach Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #30.

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Combining the excitement of Halloween with a familiar summer theme like the beach captures children’s curiosity and keeps lessons engaging. Students will review and practice a beach-related words such as bucket in a playful and meaningful Halloween context.

Children can describe the Halloween buckets on the flashcards, naming the Halloween characters and items: What is this?
Students: It’s a bucket.
Teacher: Yes! It’s a cat bucket. What color is it?
Students: It’s black.

Match and sort the buckets to the candies.

The flashcards prompt students to use simple sentences such as The Vampire candy is in the Vampire bucket.

Small cards. 

Bucket and Candy Match. Spread out the bucket flashcards on the floor. Hand out the candy flashcards to students. Students take turns matching their candy to the correct Halloween bucket (e.g., Candy corn candy goes in the candy corn bucket!).

Promote active speaking practice using the skull with an open space to encourage students to read aloud and say the name of the Halloween character clearly.

Glue the witch finger pointer on a craft stick. Students can take turns being the “witch” and using the pointer to show any card and naming the character on the bucket.

Play Find and Point.  Spread the small bucket and candy cards on a table. Call out a word: Show me the cat bucket!  The student with the witch finger pointer touches the correct card and says: This is the cat bucket!

Students love “feeding” the skull — it transforms repetition and review into a fun, hands-on game. Play Feed the Skull! Place the cards face up on the table. Call out a word: Feed the candy corn bucket! Students find the correct card, say the word, and “feed” it through the skull’s mouth.

Memory Game. Place the cards face down. Students flip two cards at a time to find a matching pair. When they find one, they must say the words aloud: A vampire bucket and vampire candy!

A cut and paste worksheet for the students connect the Halloween character words (like witch, mummy, vampire, ghost) through picture association.

Worksheet. Students draw and decorate their own Halloween bucket and show their bucket to the class.

Coloring Worksheets will reinforces color vocabulary. Students review and apply color words like orange, black, purple, green, etc. through fun Halloween images.

Halloween Buckets Pocket Game encourages active learning. Students physically match and “feed” the buckets with candies and word cards, turning learning into a fun interactive experience.

Halloween Buckets Cup Game. Use the same printables from the game above. Use real cups to glue the bucket onto each. Students match the candy and word cards to each Halloween bucket (now on cups) to strengthen both picture–word and word–object associations.

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