Finding Halloween writing activities that are exciting, educational, and easy to prepare can feel like a trick of its own. By October, students are thinking about costumes and candy, while teachers are searching for ways to channel that excitement into meaningful learning.
A Halloween virtual field trip is a fun way to bring the season into your classroom without sacrificing instructional time. Students can explore a haunted house, practice important skills, and complete imaginative writing activities without ever leaving the classroom.
Make Halloween Writing More Engaging
Seasonal writing prompts can encourage students to take creative risks and add more details to their work. When an activity includes an immersive setting, like a mysterious haunted house, students have even more inspiration to draw from.
The Halloween Virtual Field Trip: Haunted House for Sale combines writing with videos, movable pieces, comprehension questions, and interactive activities. It creates a complete Halloween learning experience instead of simply giving students another worksheet.
Explore a Haunted House From the Classroom
The virtual adventure begins with students preparing for their trip. They complete a KWL chart, pack a virtual suitcase, and watch a one-minute takeoff video before touring the haunted house.
During the 12-minute field trip video, students review fiction and nonfiction, explore the haunted setting, and think about how they might sell the house to a potential buyer. The experience gives them plenty of ideas to use during the accompanying Halloween writing activities.
Practice More Than Creative Writing
This Halloween virtual field trip includes 30 interactive Google Slides with editable text boxes, directions, and movable pieces. Students can practice several skills throughout the lesson, including:
- Sequencing events
- Responding to four writing prompts
- Answering comprehension questions
- Labeling parts of a picture
- Counting objects within 10
- Comparing fiction and nonfiction
- Writing a haunted house sales pitch
There is even a Halloween freeze song to add a little movement to the lesson. You can use the entire activity or delete slides to create a shorter experience for your class.
Use It Digitally or in Person
The Haunted House for Sale activity works for virtual and in-person instruction. Teachers can display the slides for a whole-group lesson or share them digitally so students can interact with the movable pieces and text boxes.
The resource also includes black-and-white writing pages for teachers who prefer printable Halloween activities. An optional home connection invites students to write a fictional letter, potion recipe, or story.
Add It to Your October Lesson Plans
This activity is designed for kindergarten through second grade, although kindergarten students may need support reading the directions. It also makes a fun companion activity for your favorite Halloween picture book.
If you need low-prep Halloween writing activities that students will be excited to complete, take them on a Haunted House Virtual Field Trip. They can enjoy a spooky classroom adventure while practicing writing, comprehension, sequencing, and more.
Explore the Halloween Virtual Field Trip: Haunted House for Sale!
Frequently Asked Questions
The activity is designed for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Kindergarten students and other emerging readers may benefit from completing it as a teacher-led, whole-group activity.
No. You do not need Google Classroom, but digital participants need access to a Google account and Google Drive. Teachers can also display the slides from their own computer for whole-group instruction.
You can edit the text boxes, move interactive pieces, add your own directions, and delete slides you do not want to use. The slide backgrounds themselves are not editable.
