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Halloween - Teaching Resources

Explore our collection of fun and engaging Halloween resources and activites that can be used in your classroom.

When is Halloween?

Halloween is celebrated every year on 31 October.

It is a fun festival of spooky magic and people like to dress up in fancy dress costumes of ghosts, ghouls and monsters, make pumpkin lanterns, go trick or treating and tell ghost stories.

A new film for 7 - 11 year olds, exploring the religious origins of Halloween... and the fun ways we celebrate it today.

Halloween

See how the British landscape changes through autumn and as the days shorten, people enjoy Halloween and Bonfire Night.

The sights and sounds of autumn

Phoebe is seven-years-old and lives with diabetes, but she still loves trick or treating at Halloween - even if she has to be careful around sweets.

Trick or treating with diabetes

Use the Bring the Noise Spooky World song to encourage music learning at home or in the classroom.

Get set for Halloween with Spooky World

How to make frightening fake blood using only simple cupboard ingredients.

How to make fake blood

Watch our video to find out how you can make gruesome pumpkin ooze using only simple cupboard ingredients.

How to make gruesome pumpkin ooze

Help your children make static electricity spectres using only simple everyday items in our fun science experiment.

How to make static electricity spectres

Make spooky oobleck using only simple household ingredients in our fun Halloween spooky science experiment.

How to make spooky oobleck for Halloween

Get active inside Hacker T. Dog's spooky Super Movers Halloween dream!

Hacker's Halloween Nightmare Level One

Get active inside Hacker T. Dog's spooky Super Movers Halloween nightmare!

Hacker's Halloween Nightmare Level Two

Three audio stories to get your class in the mood for the spooky season. Perfect for KS1 and First Level classes.

BBC Scotland - Hallowe’en Stories

Newsround asked children to tell them how we can celebrate Halloween without using so much plastic. Take a look at these spook-tacular top tips!

Top tips for plastic-free Halloween

Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. Find out how much Shakespeare was influenced by sorcery.

Shakespeare, witchcraft and the supernatural