Make the most of the spooky season with 30 Halloween-themed exercises that’ll make your speech therapy sessions that much more exciting and interactive! Whether you’re counting syllables in eerie words, playing charades with creepy creatures, or crafting spooky sentences, these activities offer an entertaining way to enhance a variety of speech and language skills, turning your therapy sessions into a haunted hub of learning!
1. Halloween Descriptions
Open the door to a whole new world of adjectives! To do so, have your students describe typical Halloween characters or items to spark their imaginations while enhancing their vocabulary.
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2. Spooky Syllable Count
Halloween will be frightfully fun with this haunting syllable activity! Engage your learners in counting the syllables in Halloween-themed words, honing their phonological awareness.
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3. Trick or Treat Role Play
Transform your classroom into a neighborhood of spooktacular houses! To accomplish this, your budding actors will role-play trick-or-treating, refining their conversational skills and manners in the most entertaining way.
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4. Monster Sound Match
Boost literacy with a horde of Halloween-themed pictures- each linked to an initial sound. This matching game will entertain while enhancing your students’ phonetic understanding.
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5. Pumpkin Spatial Prepositions
Create a miniature pumpkin patch by letting your students play with spatial concepts like over, under, and next to. To complete the activity, they’ll need to match the spatial preposition to the corresponding picture.
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6. Candy Corn Categories
Make receptive language learning fun and simple with a category game! To do so, have your learners sort pictures or objects into categories by using candy corn as markers.
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7. Spooky Sentence Formulation
Get your students thinking and writing creatively by using ghosts and goblins to inspire their language. Using target speech sounds, their goal is to formulate spooky sentences.
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8. Jack-o’-Lantern Jokes
Ready for a spooktacularly good time? Have your little comedians share their favorite Halloween-themed jokes to keep the mood light while practicing clear communication.
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9. Haunted House Hunt
Turn your classroom into a haunted house by hiding Halloween-related objects and prompting your students to find them by following directional clues. This will improve their receptive language skills and increase engagement during your sessions!
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10. Batty for Rhymes
Your learners will go batty for this Halloween-themed rhyming puzzle! Engage your students by having them match each Halloween item to the word it rhymes with; making language play accessible and fun for everyone!
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11. Ghostly Grammar
Your kiddos will have a blast pretending to be the teacher! By correcting sentences about this specter’s actions, they will be honing their grammatical skills all while having a spooktacularly good time.
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12. Mummy’s Mystery Word
Wrap up your vocabulary lessons with a Halloween-themed musical mystery! Your students will need to infer the hidden word from clues, combining reasoning and language skills.
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13. Witch’s Brew Sequencing
Ever wondered how a witch brews her potion? Engage your kiddos in a fun writing activity by having them concoct their own directions, detailing how they’d whip one up and what special features it would bring about!
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14. Halloween Homonyms & Homophones
Halloween-themed words provide an engaging context for your budding grammar experts to practice their language skills. Get tangled in a web of words like ‘witch’ to ‘which’ and more with this exciting homonyms and homophones lesson!
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15. Spooky Synonyms & Antonyms
Eerie or creepy? Big or massive? Here, your little monsters will have an opportunity to broaden their language skills by choosing appropriate synonyms and antonyms for Halloween-related words.
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16. Creepy Compound Words
Create a game in which your students will need to form and split Halloween-themed compound words. What an enchanting way to learn about word structure!
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17. Monster Mash Charades
To enhance word recall and improve motor planning, get your students to play a game of charades using Halloween-themed words. Need ideas to get started? Try waddling around like a bandaged mummy, standing in a field like a scarecrow, or howling at the moon like a werewolf!
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18. Spooky Finger Play
Grab a flashlight and tell some time-favored Halloween stories! Better yet, encourage your kiddos to improve their comprehension and joint awareness by working as a class to concoct a spooky story and classic Halloween rhyme.
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19. Ghastly Guess Who
Ignite your learners’ curiosity by having them play a game of ‘Guess Who’ using Halloween characters. This’ll prompt them to use their deductive reasoning skills while having tons of fun!
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20. Spooky S Blends
Target articulation with Halloween-themed words that begin with S blends. This focused activity is sure to make your little learners’ speech practice feel like a game while you lead them in articulating and pronouncing S blend words.
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21. Halloween Idioms
Ever heard the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs” and had no idea what it means? Your students may be having a hard time as well! Make idioms less confusing, and more relatable in August, by explaining them using a Halloween theme.
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22. Friendly Ghost Feelings
Happy, sad, and surprised ghosts will help your students identify and discuss different emotions. This activity will add a touch of Halloween fun to social-emotional learning as your kiddos traverse the rich depths of their feelings.
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23. Pumpkin Zones of Regulation
What emotions could a pumpkin show? Discuss the zones of regulation whilst having your learners draw different faces onto each pumpkin on the worksheet.
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24. Mystical Metaphors
Life is like a roller coaster. More like a haunted ride during the Halloween season! Ask your littles to create Halloween-themed metaphors to explore the fascinating realm of figurative language.
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25. Halloween Themed Barrier Games
Enhance receptive and expressive language skills by getting your learners to depict a Halloween scene. To do so, they’ll need to listen and then carry out various directions you give them.
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26. Goblin ‘Go Fish’
Play a ghoulish game of Go Fish with your littles. Take the traditional game of Go Fish and give it a Halloween twist with themed cards- promoting sentence formulation and turn-taking.
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27. Witch’s Wish Inferencing
Have your kiddos decode what this witch desires by relying on their inferencing skills. It’s a bewitching approach to boost both their comprehension and critical thinking.
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28. Spooky Social Scenarios
With this perspective-taking activity, you can boost social-emotional awareness. Present your students with different Halloween-themed social situations to navigate and discuss.
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29. Storytime with Monsters
Enhance reading skills by having your kiddos read aloud from a Halloween-themed storybook; focusing on clear articulation, fluency, and vocal expression. You can even mix it up by having them read to a friend or parent!
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30. Potion Concoction
Following a ‘potion’ recipe allows your little potion masters to focus on understanding and executing multi-step oral directions. Try this magical activity to really engage their active listening skills!
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