Halloween Family Activities for Kindergarten ESL, EFL and Preschool Students

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 Halloween is the perfect time to review family vocabulary in a fun and memorable way! 

This resource includes three engaging Halloween families—Vampire Family, Ghost Family, and Frankenstein Family—that make learning family vocabulary exciting. Students will identify, sort, count, match, and talk about family members while enjoying Halloween-themed activities designed especially for young English language learners.

Whether you teach in the classroom, online, or in small groups, these activities provide plenty of opportunities for speaking, listening, and vocabulary practice.

Halloween Families Flashcards to sort on the board. Then, ask questions.
Teacher: How many people are there in the Vampire family?
Students: one, two, three, four. FOUR!!
Teacher: Who are they?
Students: Mother! Father! Brother! Sister!

Make the pointers craft stick puppets to point out each Halloween Family member. Use the templates.
Teacher: Point to Father Frankenstein!

Place the flashcards into a clear plastic sheet. Use a dry erase marker to circle or draw the parts of the face as you name them.
Teacher: Circle Mother’s eyes!

Check the video:

There is a Hello hand in the Family Unit resource that can be used to say Hello and Goodbye to each Family Member.

Teacher: Hello, Father Frankenstein!

There is a set of Halloween families small flashcards for small group instruction or online teaching. Use the cards for sorting the people into families. Have the students name all the people in each family group: This is father Frankenstein!

Use the cards for calling the people in the BINGO game. Print the 12 Bingo cards and the family members that are all mixed up for fun.

Halloween Families Cutouts

Play fly swatter! Teacher: Mother Frankenstein!

Number Listening Activity

 The teacher places all the Halloween characters cutouts on the wall, board, or table. The number cutouts (1–9) are displayed separately and kept available for students to use during the activity.

As students look at the characters, the teacher gives oral instructions such as: "Brother Frankenstein is number 8!"

Students listen carefully and then find the correct number cutout to place next to the corresponding character. The teacher can continue with additional clues until all characters have been matched with their numbers.

Use the cutouts for sorting Halloween Families on a pocket chart. You can sort by family members or by Halloween characters.

I taped the cutouts onto straws. I also made a small theater. The cutouts for the theater are added to the resource. I grabbed a box and cut a frame of 10 centimeters, I used rice paper to wrap it. I glued the cutouts onto the theater. Have your students put up a Halloween play.

A Halloween Family puzzle to wrap up the Holiday.

As a craft or a classroom decoration to review the vocabulary. Point to family member and ask questions. 

Or , finally, use the small cards and create a Frankenstein family tree, a Vampire one or even a Ghost Family tree!

Here is a video.

 This resource is included in the Family Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #8. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-8-6126315

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