Spooky Vocab
The name of the house where ghosts live.
What is a haunted house?
Choose the correct word: “The ghosts ___ in the attic.” (is / are)
Are
What turns into a wolf on a full moon?
A werewolf
In what country did Halloween start?
Ireland
In “Ghostbusters,” what do the heroes catch?
Ghosts
A creature that turns into a bat and drinks blood.
What is a vampire?
Change this to past tense: “I hide behind the curtain.”
I hid behind the curtain.
What was the name of scientist that created the green monster?
Frankenstein
What Mexican holiday honors the dead around the same time as Halloween?
Día de los Muertos
In “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” who is the Pumpkin King?
Jack Skeleton
What do we call a pumpkin with a face carved into it?
Jack-o’-lantern
Fill in: “If I ___ a witch, I would fly to school.”
If I were a witch, I would fly to school.
The name of the ghostly woman who cries for her lost children in a Latin American legend.
Who is La Llorona?
What do children say when they go door to door for candy?
Trick or treat!
In “Coraline,” what strange feature do people in the other world have instead of eyes?
Buttons
What’s the adjective that means “scary but exciting”?
Spooky
Identify the adverb: “The zombie walked slowly down the street.”
Slowly
What country is Dracula from?
Romania
Children sometimes play this game by biting apples floating in water.
Apple bobbing
What 1993 movie features three witch sisters from Salem?
Hocus Pocus
What’s another name for a costume party?
Masquerade
Correct the mistake: “He don’t like spiders.”
He doesn’t like spiders.
What creature is half human and half fish, often found in old stories and legends?
Mermaid or Merman
In China, people light lanterns and burn paper to remember ancestors during this festival.
The ghost festival
What movie monster is very big, from Japan, and destroys cities?
Godzilla