Halloween Words & Reading Activities

Looking for halloween words, word searches and language arts activities?

If you’re looking for some fun, scary and enchanting words to use for your halloween teaching activities, here are 143 for you! Below the word list, we’ve included lots of halloween themed reading comprehension activities, word searches, sentence writing, story writing and more printable PDFs for the classroom or at home.

Halloween Words

afraid, alchemy, amulet, apparition, bat, beast, behemoth, black, black cat, bone, boo, brew, broomstick, candles, candy, cape, casket, cauldron, cemetery, charm, chilling, cloak, cobweb, coffin, costume, creaky, creepy, crypt, curse, cyclops, dark, disguise, Dracula, dreadful, eerie, enchantment, evil, eyepatch, fairy, fangs, fantasy, festival, fiend, flashlight, fog, Frankenstein, frighten, frightening, full moon, gargoyle, genie, ghastly, ghost, ghoul, gnome, goblins, gravestone, grim, hallow, haunted, haunted house, hobgoblin, horror, howl, incantation, jinx, kettle, lantern, leprechaun, lightning, macabre, magic, mask, masquerade, mermaid, midnight, mist, monster, moon, moonlight, morbid, mummy, mysterious, nightmare, ninja, October, ogre, omen, orange, owl, party, phantom, pirate, pitchfork, poltergeist, potion, prank, prince, princess, pumpkin, queen, quiver, raven, robe, robot, scare, scarecrow, scary, scream, shadows, shriek, shroud, sinister, skeleton, skull, soldier, sorcerer, spell, spiders, spirits, spooky, startling, strange, superhero, supernatural, superstition, sweets, tarantula, terrify, thriller, tombstone, trick-or-treat, troll, unicorn, vampire, wand, warlock, werewolf, witch, wizard, wraith, zombie