Halloween Writing Prompts

Halloween is a fantastic way to get your students enthusiastic about writing! So I have created a few things that you can use to motivate your young writers this Halloween.

You can get them writing spooky stories, creating recipes for a witch’s brew, listing safety hints for trick or treating, planning Halloween parties or even listing facts and opinions about Halloween!

Sometimes all they need is a sentence starter to get their imaginations firing!

Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt

Here is a great way to get kids writing about Halloween and to create an awesome looking Halloween display of their writing. This is the Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt.

This activity combines writing and art. There are 7 quilt squares to choose from and can you use them all or use just one.

The children do the writing activity on the sheet then color the small quilt squares.

Then the quilt squares can be displayed together to make a large Halloween Quilt display with their writing and their coloring.

You can learn more about the Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt at –

Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt

31 Spooky Halloween Writing Prompts

I also have a list of 31 Halloween Writing Prompts that you can use to get kids writing. They are listed below the image but you can also download a pdf of this image from this link.

31 Spooky Halloween Writing Prompts

1. Write a recipe for a witch’s brew.

2. Create an advertisement to sell a haunted house.

3. Write a letter to a vampire convincing it to come to your Halloween party.

4. Plan a Halloween party. List who you will invite, food and games.

5. Create a game to play with a pumpkin.

6. Design a haunted house.

7. Give 5 facts and 5 opinions about bats.

8. Give 5 facts and 5 options about candy.

9. Describe the ultimate Halloween costume.

10. You are going to interview a witch. Write 10 questions you would ask.

11. Would you rather be friends with Frankenstein or Dracula? Why?

12. If a jack-o-lantern could speak what would it say?

13. Halloween has been cancelled this year. Give 5 reasons why this might happen.

14. What is the best Halloween you have ever had?

15. Describe a perfect Halloween. What would you do? Where would you go?

16. Which of these would you like to have visit you, a ghost, a mummy or a skeleton?

17. Write an acrostic poem for Halloween, Monster, Frankenstein or Haunted House.

18. A zombie is on the lose and you have to stop it. What will you do?

19. Do you prefer Halloween or Christmas? Give 7 reasons why?

20. Which would be the best pet for a witch, a spider, a bat or a cat? Why?

21. If candy was banned on Halloween, what could be given instead.

22. If I could fly like a bat …

23. If I were a ghost I …

24. I was putting on my Halloween costume when I heard a howling sound.

25. Suddenly the jack-o-lantern started to speak and I …

26. It was a dark and stormy night when we suddenly …

27. I couldn’t believe my eyes but standing in front of me was …

28. I ran faster and faster but the … was still chasing me.

29. If I had a flying broomstick, I …..

30. We were walking through the cemetery when we heard …

31. The strange sound was coming from under the bed so I …

I hope this gives your little monsters plenty to write about!

If you would like more fun Halloween activities make sure you check out Games 4 Learning on Teachers Pay Teachers. Here’s a few things you will find there!

These are all available at Halloween from Games 4 Learning.