No Tricks, Just Treats! A Halloween Word Search to Build Voca-BOO-lary!

Here at Teach Starter, we go batty for a good word search!👻

This worksheet is best used during the month of October as an independent practice to support your reading lessons. It is also a great task for early finishers!

Pupils will find the following horizontal, vertical and diagonal Halloween vocabulary words:

• Cauldron
• Cemetery
• Creepy
• Darkness
• Ghastly
• Ghost
• Ghoulish
• Gruesome
• Halloween
• Haunt
• Haunted
• Horrify
• and more

Even More Halloween Vocabulary Activities 

Frankenstein this beast of a puzzle into extra games and activities your whole class will enjoy!

💀 Chilling Charades 

Write each word on a piece of scrap paper, fold them up, and put them into a container. To play, divide your class or small group into 2 teams. Teams will take turns sending up 1 pupil to choose a word from the bowl and get 30 seconds to act out the word soundlessly for their team. If no one guesses the word, it returns to the bowl, and no point is given. Once every pupil has had their turn to act out a word, the game is over, and the group with the highest points wins.

🧪 Scary Sentences

Have pupils practise writing full sentences with words from the list. As a challenge, see how many sentences they can write that use more than 1 of the words.

We also have a Halloween Word Search for Younger Pupils!

Easily Prepare This Halloween Vocabulary Word Resource 

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for pupils to complete.

Turn this teaching resource into a sustainable activity! Print a few copies on card and slip them into dry-erase sleeves. Pupils can circle the words with a dry-erase marker, then erase and reuse them.

Looking for a lower years version? Take a look below!

teaching resource

Halloween Word Search – Key Stage 1

Build a wickedly-good vocabulary with our spooky Halloween-themed word search.