Halloween worksheets – Spooky literacy printable activities

Looking for fun and spooky Halloween worksheets and activities for children in Early Years, KS1 and KS2? Whether you're planning a themed day at school or just need some quick, printable ideas to keep pupils engaged, this list is packed with teacher-made resources to make Halloween both thrilling and purposeful.

From writing and reading comprehension tasks to character creation and atmospheric setting activities, these Halloween worksheet packs are perfect for bringing spooky fun into your classroom.

Every idea is easy to use, curriculum-linked and designed to support key literacy skills while letting pupils enjoy the spookier side of the season. Let’s take a look at some of our best Halloween activities for primary school children, grouped by Key Stage...

KS1 Halloween worksheets

Halloween offers rich opportunities for creative writing, from spellbooks and potions to suspenseful stories and spooky character descriptions...

Creating Halloween characters

Ignite pupils’ imaginations this Halloween with this KS1 character creation pack. Using spooky image cards, children will invent their own characters and describe their belongings. They'll practise writing sentences – including possessive apostrophes for Year 2.

Magical spells and potions Halloween worksheets

This Year 1 Halloween writing resource sees pupils explore the rhyming WAGOLL poem Strength Spell. They'll then create their own imaginative spells and practise writing sentences with capital letters and full stops. They can perform their creations too.

The Year 2 version centres on the WAGOLL text A Wishing Potion. It guides pupils to explore and write command sentences while inventing their own magical potions.

KS2 Halloween worksheets

Setting descriptions

This Year 3-4 writing pack helps pupils create detailed setting descriptions inspired by a spooky wizard’s castle. Using an image, planning sheets and word mats for prepositions and fronted adverbials, pupils will collect ideas, plan their writing and produce descriptive texts.

Similarly, this Halloween resource pack focuses on developing expanded noun phrases to enhance descriptive writing. Pupils will use images of a pumpkin patch and activity sheets to practise determiners, adjectives and prepositional phrases.

For UKS2, help pupils create suspenseful, atmospheric settings using the model text The Forbidden Place for inspiration. You get ideas sheets, vocabulary and spooky setting cards and planning sheets to explore senses, figurative language, dialogue and sentence variation.

Character descriptions

This spooky characters resource pack guides Y3-4 pupils to write detailed character descriptions using the model text The Wizard for inspiration. There are idea sheets, vocabulary and spooky character cards, object prompts, planning sheets and more.

Spooky stories writing ideas pack

This KS2 story writing pack supports pupils in creating spooky stories by providing image prompts, planning sheets and an ideas booklet to help them develop descriptions of settings, characters, objects and animals.

Instructional writing

This Y5-6 resource pack guides pupils through instructional writing using a witch’s spells and potions theme. With a model text, potion and spell cards, modal verbs list and planning sheets, children will create their own magical recipes.

Reading and writing activities

This free resource pack from The Week Junior encourages KS2 pupils to think, talk and write about Halloween. Activities include debating the meaning of Halloween, writing imaginative conversations or spooky descriptions, and creating a Halloween fact file.

Extra Halloween resources

This free adjectives lesson plan asks KS2 pupils to create a monster-themed menu, using imaginative dishes like “lumpy eyeball soup” to explore the power of descriptive language.

These four free Halloween colouring sheets contain numbered sections and colour guides. Young pupils can practise number recognition, colour matching and following instructions while creating spooky artwork.

These Halloween phonics flashcards for EYFS and KS1 feature spooky-themed CVC and CVCC words to support early reading and phonics skills. Pupils will practise decoding, blending and segmenting sounds.