Halloween Word Wall – Friendly Words on Cards and Labels

All 36 words

Costumes 12

astronaut The astronaut wore a white suit and a round helmet.
costume I put on my costume and looked in the mirror.
crown A gold paper crown sat on my head all day.
dinosaur I stomped down the hall like a dinosaur.
ghost The ghost in my story was friendly and said boo.
knight My knight costume has a cardboard shield and a gray helmet.
mask My mask had two holes so I could see out.
princess The princess in my story lives in a tall castle.
robot My robot costume is a box with buttons drawn on it.
skeleton My skeleton costume has white bones on black cloth.
wings She wore butterfly wings that sparkled in the light.
witch The witch in my story wore a tall pointed hat.

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Things you see 12

bat A bat flew over the trees at the end of the day.
black cat A black cat watched us from the top of the wall.
decorations The decorations on our street were paper bats and lights.
hay bale We sat on a hay bale to have our picture taken.
leaves Dry leaves crunched under our feet as we walked.
lights Orange lights twinkled along the fence.
pumpkin A pumpkin with a face cut into it is called a jack-o'-lantern.
sidewalk We stayed on the sidewalk and held hands to cross.
spider A spider was spinning in the corner of the porch.
stars The stars came out before we got home.
streamers Orange streamers twisted across the classroom ceiling.
web The web shone in the light like silver string.

Halloween night 12

brave I felt brave when I walked past the dark hedge.
candy I got three pieces of candy and gave one to my sister.
dark When it got dark, I held a flashlight to see the path.
Halloween On Halloween we wear costumes and go door to door.
neighbor Our neighbor waved from her porch and said hello.
October Our costume parade is on the last day of October.
parade Every class walked in the parade around the school.
party Our class party had music, games and apple slices.
pretend I like to pretend I am an astronaut on the moon.
share We share the treats so everyone gets some.
spooky Our street looked spooky in the fog, but it was only our street.
trick-or-treat We trick-or-treat at the houses with a light on.

How this list was compiled: Own work: our own choice of 36 friendly Halloween words, sorted into three sets of twelve, with a meaning and a sentence written for each. Each meaning was compared on 2026-10-01 with the entry in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q= plus the word) (for example costume: an outfit worn on Halloween; pumpkin: a round orange squash; Halloween: October 31; trick-or-treat; streamer; sidewalk; bale, as in a bale of hay). Ghost and witch are given here as story characters. Jack-o'-lantern, a lantern made from a hollowed pumpkin with a carved face, was read there too and stands in the pumpkin sentence. Licence: own work

How it works

This Halloween word wall has 36 friendly words in three sets of twelve: costumes, things you see and Halloween night. Behind each word is a short meaning and a sentence a child can copy into a story.

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Costumes first, then the street and the night

The page opens on Costumes: costume, mask, crown, wings and eight things to dress up as, from robot to astronaut. Things you see runs from pumpkin, bat and web to hay bale and streamers. Halloween night has trick-or-treat, parade, neighbor and share. Change sets under Show only.

Halloween flash cards or labels on one sheet

The print links sit under the card. Print 12 labels gives the twelve words alone, each a 60 mm square to cut out for a pocket chart, a ring or the writing center. Print 12 cards puts the meanings on the other side of the sheet, so each word turns over like a flash card.

Jack-o'-lantern is too long for a label, so it is in the pumpkin sentence for children to copy.
The thing you do takes two hyphens: we trick-or-treat. The greeting at the door is three words: trick or treat.
Deal out the Costumes cards and sort them: what you can be, and what you put on.

Questions and answers

What words go on a Halloween word wall?

The ones children ask how to spell in October: costume, mask, pumpkin, bat, spider, candy, trick-or-treat. This list adds dress-up words such as robot and knight, and words for the evening itself, such as sidewalk, neighbor, share and brave.

Are any of the words scary?

No. Nothing on the list is gory, and no card names a film. Ghost and witch are here as story characters and skeleton as the bones of a body, because children dress up as all three. Spooky means strange and a little scary.

Who wrote the meanings and the sentences?

We did, in words a young reader can manage, and compared each meaning with the American Heritage Dictionary on 1 October 2026. Every sentence uses its word the way a child might in a story: My mask had two holes so I could see out.

Halloween Word Wall: Friendly Words on Cards and Labels