Halloween

English Activities
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Read the song and answer the questions.

The Witch and the Dragon

(Sing to the tune of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, little Star’.)

On a broomstick flying high,

In the dark and starry sky.
With her friends the cat and dog,
A green bird and jumpy frog.
When the broomstick broke in two,
Saw the dragon. What to do?

When the dragon saw the witch,

Wants to eat her with some chips!
Muddy monster saved the day,
Made the dragons fly away.
Then the witch made a new broom,
Cast a spell and off they zoom!

1 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

1. Which of these animals is not the witch’s friend? Tick one.

cat green bird

dragon dog

2. Find three pairs of words in the song that rhyme.

and

and

and

3. Circle the adjectives in the song.

4. Who saved the day and made the dragon fly away?

5. Can you find a question in the song and write it below?

6. Can you write another verse of the song about what happens next? Try to
make your lines rhyme, if you can.

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 Picky Potions
Can you help the witch to make her magic potions? Write a sentence to
say what your potion will do and the two ingredients you will use from
the witch’s cupboard. Use the word ‘and’ to join the different parts of your
sentence. One has been done for you.

To turn my hair blue, mix one slug and one bat.

To ,

mix and .

To ,

mix and .

To ,

mix and .

To ,

mix and .

3 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

 Halloween Invitations
Can you correct the mistakes in these Halloween invitations? Circle the letters
that need to be changed to capitals and write the correct capital letter above
them. There are 16 mistakes altogether.

Dear henry, To Connie,

Please come to my i am going trick-or-
Halloween party on treating with auntie sally
sunday. i hope we can on Saturday. can you and
carve a pumpkin! tommy come?
Love from, Love from,
polina kayden

To daniel, Dear adib,

I am writing to invite you I hope you can come to my
to come trick-or-treating Halloween party on friday
after school today. i hope in london. we will be eating
you have a scary costume! ghost jelly.
i can’t wait to eat lots of
Love from,
treats!
Charlie
Zara x

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 Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Read the recipe for making pumpkin soup and answer the following
questions.
Ingredients
2kg pumpkin
500ml water
2 onions
1 stock cube
30g sunflower spread

• Chop the pumpkin into small cubes, then finely chop the onion.
• Put the sunflower spread into a large saucepan and heat on a medium heat.
• Add the onion and fry until soft.
• Add the pumpkin and mix well.
• Add just enough water to cover all the ingredients in the pan.
• Crush the stock cube and sprinkle into the pan. Then, bring it to the boil.
• Simmer until the pumpkin softens, then blend the mixture.
• Put the soup back into the pan to reheat. Put into
bowls and serve with bread rolls. Then enjoy!

5 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

1. Can you order the steps by writing numbers 1-4 in the boxes?

Add the onion.

Put the sunflower spread into the saucepan.

Mix well.

Chop the pumpkin.

2. What do you do last in the recipe?

3. What do you think the word ‘simmer’ might mean?

4. How many onions do you need?

one two

three four

5. Have you ever eaten soup? What is your favourite soup and why?

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 Prefix Spells
Can you help the wizard with his spells? The wizard’s spell reverses everything
by adding the prefix un-. Can you write the word and show what his spell
does by adding the prefix un- and drawing a picture of what you think it
would look like?
For example: clean cauldron unclean cauldron

happy bats

friendly ghost

ripe apples

kind friend

7 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

 Reading a Spooky Picture
Can you answer these questions using clues from the picture?

1. What do you think the witch is giving to the children?

2. What are the children dressed up as?

3. Do you dress up for Halloween? What would you like to dressed up as this
year?

4. Have you ever been trick-or-treating before? What did you do?

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 Trick-or-Treat Phonics Games
Do you dare to play the Trick-or-Treat Phonics Game?
To play, you will need:
• Scissors
• 2 players
Instructions:
1. Cut out the word cards on the next page and arrange them face down in
front of the 2 players.
2. Cut out the 4 picture cards. Give each player one ‘Trick!’ card and one
‘Treat!’ card.
3. The players take turns to turn over one small card and sound it out. If it
is a real word, put it on top of your ‘Treat!’ card. If it is a fake word, put it
on top of your ‘Trick!’ card.
4. When there are no cards left, the winner is the player with the most cards
in their ‘Treat!’ pile.

9 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

 Trick! Treat! Trick! Treat!

broom ghost monster moon mummy

hat bat wand cave house

spell mask sweets cheed jeph

jalley zoke sprew smost melper

kift plab brust fent glay

Print this page onto the back of the next page to create double-sided cards, or stick the pages together
carefully and then cut out the cards.

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 Treat! Trick! Treat! Trick!

Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or

Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat?
Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or
Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat?
Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or
Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat?
Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or
Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat?
Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or Trick or
Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat? Treat?

11 Year 1 Halloween English Activity Booklet

 Cobweb Word Search
Can you read the Halloween sentences and find the missing words in the
word search?

o k m v w z p t r y h t
x v w d s q e j s e k i
q a g f i w u v o x y w
n q j b c d e q h c m i
k o n v r h v x j l q l
x w g o c a p i t a l k
f a w e s d n t h m e h
w n b n q i i j z a o d
g a j h f u l l s t o p
s d a x q u e s t i o n
s l e t t e r e y o u m
p a j k h b a e r n t r

1. Sparks flew out of the cauldron

This sentence is missing a f s .

2. The witch is called glenda.

This sentence is missing a c letter.

3. Who are you dressed up as

This sentence is missing a q mark.

4. The word ‘Halloween’ begins with the l ‘h’.

5. The w ‘spider’ begins with the letter ‘s’.

6. Ghosts and ghouls come out to play!

This sentence ends in an e mark.

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