Chinese Halloween Literacy Activities and Resources | Halloween Activities | Chinese Activities for Kids
The last quarter of the year is packed with teaching topics that are seasonal, festival, and cultural. The season change is visible. The festivals and celebrations are loved by children big and small. The cultural essence and stories are connecting, inclusive and global. Playing with purpose is the design of each of the resources included here. Literacy building is a part of learning with the songs, stories, and fun sheets. Take it slow. Set a goal for the week and for the month. Less is more for children and for you the parent, the teacher, and the learning partner.
Chinese Halloween Exploring and Literacy Building Plan
The Halloween Teaching Unit is packed with playful communicative activities!
When there is a holiday or festival it is a great time to add the fun seasonal topic to your world language Chinese program.
Take a look at how we can engage children with the seasonal topic and how we can use the playful Halloween approach in October. Watch how kids can count with a silly witch voice! I know it’s very silly but the pixie dust of silliness and fun does magic with children no matter you are a parent or a teacher.
Mandarin Bilingual Storytime – Five Little Pumpkins
Follow and have fun with all the Halloween resources for active and interactive literacy building:
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Teaching Unit: Halloween Traditional Chinese | Simplified Chinese | Traditional & Simplified Combo
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What Does the Little Ghost Eat (digital eBook) Traditional Chinese with audio support| Simplified Chinese with audio support
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Happy Halloween (digital eBook) Traditional Chinese with audio support | Simplified Chinese with audio support
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Teaching Library: BINGO Word Play (see poster below)
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Teaching Library: Halloween Play and Learn
Miss Panda and the goblins are counting in Halloween style. Join in – Ready, Set, Count!
Mandarin Bilingual Storytime – Five Little Spider
Add seasonal fun to your daily Chinese routine. Count like a pumpkin, a cat, a little ghost…! Kids enjoy novelty and it keeps their attention. Fall is such a cozy season. We see pumpkins big and small on display in the stores. This is a good time to enjoy the seasonal topics and work on seasonal vocabulary.
Teach Chinese: Halloween unit
Have you played Halloween Bingo in Chinese? Here is a Chinese Bingo printable set from our Free Chinese Teaching Printable Library. Make sure you also check out our 2019 updates for Halloween printable set that includes coloring pages, word search, and this original Bingo game. In this Chinese Halloween Bingo game page, I’ve left rooms for children to draw pictures in the space. My students really enjoy this game. The candy corn I have makes the BINGO game sweet and exciting.
You can print the sheets two-sided to have the words in Chinese and pinyin in the front and the English translation on the back. You can also print the sheets separately, cut out the words, and play a matching game and a memory game. Go outside and look for the items on the list! After practicing the words you can apply the words to the sentence pattern:
Wǒ kaǹ daò (“I see”) _________________. = 我看到 ________.
Miss Panda Chinese Free Teaching Printable Library: Halloween Bingo (Traditional Chinese version)
Miss Panda Chinese Free Teaching Printable Library:
Halloween Bingo (Traditional Chinese – Pinyin- English)
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Halloween Play and Learn
(available in traditional Chinese version and simplified version)
Engage children with more playful resources this Halloween with Teaching Unit: Halloween! A 70-page Halloween-themed packet filled with communicative activities. It includes Halloween phrases, color words, Halloween expressions flashcards, games, posters, Chinese character practice, numbers, and reading! It will grab your children’s attention and engage them in a hands-on learning approach. This unit is designed for classroom and home use.
This unit includes both traditional and simplified editions with pinyin and English translation support. As you progress with your children the Chinese character only version is also available in this packet. You can follow the link and preview the Halloween unit and read more about this playful teaching unit here. This product is available at TpT and at Miss Panda Store.
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And there is MORE Halloween FUN – here is a set of Halloween Puzzles!
Halloween Puzzles – Traditional Chinese version
Halloween Puzzles – Simplified Chinese version
Halloween Around the World
Is there another culture with a day that is similar to Halloween? Yes! There are Chinese Ghost Month, Day of the Dead in Mexico and Latin America, Pitru Paksha in India, Chusok in Korea, the Chinese Qing Ming Festival, and many more.
Halloween Shows in Mandarin and with Mandarion audio on Netflix
- StarBeam: Halloween Hero (TV-Y)
- Super Monsters: Vida’s First Halloween (TV-Y)
- The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween (TV-7)
- Secrets in the Hot Spring (TV-14) – My teens loved this one! Yes, we screamed.
- Here is a more extended watch list from Mama Baby Mandarin
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