Halloween As with most children, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It is a time to tell scary stories, dress in scary costumes, and put out scary decorations. In general, it is a time to scare yourself and everyone else to death. You can take advantage of the festive atmosphere by including fun reading activities related to the holiday. Our “SPOOKY” Bingo game encourages reading several holiday-related words. The first set of "SPOOKY" Bingo cards includes Bingo cards as well as the calling cards. The remaining sets have additional Bingo cards. Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 If you are looking for a fun, festive game, your kids may enjoy "Halloween Silly Sentences - The Mixed Up Halloween Party." This is a great game for a single child or a class full of children. (See our "Silly Sentences" page to learn about the game.) The Mixed-Up Halloween Party: Halloween Sentences Part 1 Halloween Sentences Part 2 Background Halloween Silly Sentences Set Your kids may also enjoy a word search. These are particularly helpful for children to practice spelling because the kids need to be careful to find all the correct letters in the correct order. Our word search contains many Halloween-related words. Give your kids a chance to write a Halloween "Add-an-Adjective" story. Have them read this story through first, then they can create a Halloween atmosphere by adding their own adjectives. By writing a different adjective in each of the blanks, they can create a fun, spooky story. Encourage them not to use any adjective more than once. After they fill in each of the blanks in the story, they can give it an appropriate title. Coloring provides many advantages for beginning readers and writers (see our page about coloring ). We have included several festive coloring pages for your children to enjoy: See the winning entries of our Halloween Coloring Contest: Halloween Coloring Contest Winners. In addition to our traditional coloring pages, we also have a color by letter coloring page. Similar to a color by number, this page indicates the color for each space by letters. The colors are listed at the bottom of the page. Check out our other color by number pages here. You may also want to see our dragon coloring pages: Dragon Coloring Pages If you enjoy our activities, please support our site by visiting our Mystic Arts Books Page. Your purchase will help us continue to provide these activities. In order to view or download the Bingo sets or Word Search, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it FREE from the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html