Could someone help me?

Question

I need Halloween games for my 2nd grade ESL students. I searched thru internet but mostly are guide books and are for sale. Can you share me some active Halloween games aside from bobbing apples? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

The Haunted Trail:

Best to play in school at night or a haunted house.

Find a spot deep and far within,but easy to locate and direct, within the premise. Leave a tag or item for each participant to collect.

Instruction to pass to each player to retrieve the item/s within a certain time frame.

You may hype up the game by pairing couples up. You could draw lots. Each couple to set off 5 minutes away from one another. They are to collect the item/s as well,but time will be taken and fastest couple wins.

Have Fun!

Answer 2

There is a game called grave digger where you have a box filled with dirt - in your case, kitty litter would be better, and each kid had to "dig" around in the grave to find a prize. What about a mummy wrap - pair up the kids and make one kid the mummy and the other kid has to wrap the mummy from head to toe with a roll of toilet paper and the first team done wins. Or you can try pin the tail on the "whatever" - legs on the spider, nose on the Frankenstein, wings on the vampire. You can make Halloween word finds. Or have a costume contest. I guess you have to be careful these days - so many people are against Halloween calling it a pagan holiday and so many places have banned celebrating it at all and now call it a fall festival. So you could always go with the autumn theme too. Good luck - hope that helped some.

Answer 3

Why are you playing Halloween games with ESL students? Do you know that this is a pagan holiday, associated with death? Do you really want to scare the wits out of the kids ?

Just have them wear costumes; do a word search puzzle of types of costumes people might wear (Jessie, Woody, Darth Vader, Ninja, etc); have them draw a face on a pumpkin. One year, my teacher had us bring in leaves, we then colored one side with a crayon; the teacher used a hot iron to "print" the leaves onto a t-shirt or white cloth for a wall hanging.

Answer 4

You could do a cake walk with cupcakes or other small prizes.
There's a fishing game where you put up a wall and the child swings their fishing pole (stick with a string and a clothes pin at the end of it) over the wall for a prize. Someone on the other side of the wall attaches the prize to the clothes pin.
There's face-painting.
There's trying to eat a donut off a swinging string with no hands.

Answer 5

Instead of pin the tail on the donkey, you could do pin the nose on the ghost or pin the tail on the scary cat. Or you could have different halloween pictures up around the room and have a box of words cut out and have your students pick out the correct English word to put up on the pictures. When they get it right they get a prize. This way they are practicing English and having fun!

Answer 6

Create boxes the stick their hands in and have to guess what it is... ex: cooked spaghetti with little water left in (brains) and (eyeballs) peeled grapes, get creative with what you have available. You could do an activity and have them make pumpkin faces with construction paper. What about a cake walk where they all sit in chairs and you play music while they are walking around the chairs, you need one less chair then students and when the music stops they have to find a chair and keep going removing one chair each time the music stops until there is one person left and they get a cake or treat of some sort.

Answer 7

How about tying bite-sized doughnuts to a string and suspending them from the ceiling or a wire stretched across the classroom? Then the kids have to put their hands behind their backs and try to bite the doughnut off the string! We did that last year at my son's preschool and it was hilarious! Use powdered doughnuts rather than chocolate because the chocolate will melt and get really sticky.

Answer 8

well when i was in 2nd grade my teacher did this awesome thing with dry ice. dress up as a witch and get a black bowl or something and put dry ice in it and have water in a pitcher or something and pour it on the dry ice. its awesome and the kids will love it. as for games, hide little things around the room and have prizes or something. or ask the kids what they would like to do.


good luck

Answer 9

have activity centers. have one center for a scavenger hunt and the rewarb 3 candy bars. 2nd place 2 candy bars and 3rd place - paint their face.

then you could let then make caramel apples-yum :)