Halloween Vocabulary Theme Party planning ideas / Halloween decorations / Halloween crafts
Being able to teach Halloween vocabulary and come up with classroom Halloween party ideas at the same time can be loads of fun for an ESL class of all ages. These ideas will help you to make a “spooky” classroom for the party.
Do you teach in an ESL school? Do you want to teach Halloween vocabulary and have an ESL Halloween theme party with your class? Here are some ideas that you can use to make the party lots of fun, and have fun with the whole ESL class preparing for the party. Students can get involved in the preparations and enjoy learning language and culture at the same time. These Halloween ESL vocabulary table decorations will be a hit with the class.
1) Pumpkins and Jack-o-lanterns
This is the first thing people think of when planning for a Halloween party, a real ‘must have’ of course. Every Halloween party should have a pumpkin carving contest. You can try googling jack-o-lanterns for get some great ideas. Additionally, you can decorate the classroom with small pumpkins in all corners of the room.
There are lots of creative ideas ways you can adorn your jack-o-lantern. Try using pretty fall leaves around the bottom, (be careful not to light the pumpkin where the leaves could burn), never leave the jack-o-lanterns lit and unattended. You could also use a jack-o-lantern as a flower holder, or paint the pumpkin, or make a Cinderella carriage out of it.
2) Parts of a Zombie Body
What foods can you find to make creepy eyeballs? How about grapes… The class would love to brainstorm these ideas. You can create Halloween body part dishes and the students can take turns being blondfolded while they are told a creepy zombie Halloween story and touch each different plate fo fake zombie parts.
3) the cloak, hat and broom of a wicked witch
This is another great idea for a Halloween table decoration. You can go to the market and buy a cheap make-shift witch hat for a Halloween costume and decorating it with spiders webs or, bats and any other Halloween-themed ideas. You can them make up a story about what happened to the witch, or if she will come back. Better yet, you can have the ESL students create a story, and have a short contest telling it, the scariest one wins…
4) Spooky Tablecloths
It will be lots of fun making a spooky table cloth for the centrepiece of the party where you have your snacks and other items displayed on. You can buy a cheap table cloth and decorate it with spiders, bats, witches hats and other Halloween symbols. It may be best to buy a black one to start and then decorate it with grey and white decorations you also make or buy.
5) Zombie Skulls
You can make wall décor or buy platic skulls as traditional Halloween decorations as well. You can use them as candy jars for Halloween treats.
6) Halloween music
You should get online and buy some Halloween music such as the Monstermash, for dancing, or you can also buy spooky sounds for good background atmosphere setting.
These ideas will get you going, and if you do only these, you will have a good Halloween party. However, feel free to do more than this. You can comment below if you have any other ideas for a Halloween vocabulary themes ESL class party.
Happy Halloween!
