These free printable Halloween writing prompts includes 6 different writing prompts (including a Halloween acrostic poem) and a sheet of printable Halloween writing paper.
Download and print these Halloween writing pages for a quick and easy, no-prep, Halloween writing activity for your kids.
Some kids love to write, and some kids… well they need a little encouragement. These seriously spooky (but not too scary) Halloween writing prompts are a great way to encourage reluctant writers and inspire creative writing for everyone.
Halloween is such a fun theme to write about. There are all kinds of interesting characters kids can create and lots of fun and creative words they can include in their writing. Even if you don’t really celebrate Halloween (we don’t where we live) these Halloween writing prompts are
These writing prompts are designed to be short, creative, and fun!
Some of them incorporate drawing as that is a great way to hook in reluctant writer.
Some of them only require short responses, or lists of words, so there is not a big focus on sentence structure or punctuation, but simply on encouraging the child to write. But some encourage longer writing with more creative, story like, responses which give kids the opportunity to practice grammar and really develop their writing skills.
Halloween Acrostic Poem.
There is a super fun acrostic poem prompt included in this Halloween writing set.
In case you need a reminder about what an acrostic poem is – it’s a poem where one letter in each line of the poem spells out a word of phrase. The most common and simple type acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase, and that’s the kind we’ve used for this Halloween acrostic poem prompt
Acrostic poems are a great way to introduce kids to poetry and to encourage writing because they follow simple rules and don’t require long or tricky lines of text, but they also encourage writers to come up with interesting words and phrases.
If your kids love acrostic poems, you’ll also want to print this pumpkin acrostic poem activity!
Halloween Writing Paper.
And just in case that magical thing happens where once a child starts to write, they just keep going and going, there is a plain lined page that you can make as many copies of as you need.
And if your kids want to just keep on writing, print out this magic potions, haunted house, and Halloween costume, drawing and writing activities
Free Printable Halloween Writing Prompts.
These Halloween writing prompts were made with kids in grades 1-4 (ages 6-9) in mind but older kids will have fun with them too. Just print out some of the extra lined paper so they can write longer, more detailed responses.
There are six writing prompts in this set, and one plain lined page. They come as an A4 pdf document that you can print in colour or black and white.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Click here to Seriously Spooky (but not too scary) Halloween Writing Prompts
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More Halloween Writing Activities.
If you love this free printable Halloween drawing and writing activity and you’d like more, I have a HUGE set of Halloween themed drawing and writing printables in my shop.
The full Halloween Draw and Write set includes 15 drawing prompts (including this Halloween costume prompt), and each drawing prompt has three matching writing pages. That’s 60 pages of Halloween drawing and writing worksheets.
The full Halloween Draw and Write set is on super sale at $2.50, but only for a limited time, so grab it before the price goes up.
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