Spooky Vocabulary
Scary Characters
About the Holiday
Movies and Pop Culture
100

It has eight legs and makes webs.

SPIDER

100

In Mexican legend, the crying ghost who looks for her children.

La llorona

100

What do kids say when they knock on doors for candy?

Trick or treat!

100

This toy is a doll with red hair and freckles. A killer spirit lives inside him.

Chucky

200

A place where dead people are buried. 

Cementery / Graveyard

200

This monster is tall and green, and was brought to life by a scientist.

Frankenstein

200

People wear this special clothing on Halloween.

Costumes

200

Who sang "Thriller"?

Michael Jackson

300

This orange vegetable is carved with a scary face.

Pumpkin

300

The most famous vampire count.

Dracula

300

The lantern made from a carved pumpkin is called a ___.

Jack-o'-lantern

300

Wednesday, Pugsley, Morticia and Gomez belong to this family.

The Addams Family

400

A body with only bones, no skin.

Skeleton

400

A ghost that appears in the mirror if you say her name three times.

Bloody Mary

400

This yellow, orange and white candy looks like a corn kernel.

Candy corn

400

In Beetlejuice, you say his name this many times.

3

500

She has magic powers, wears a pointed black hat and often has a black cat as a pet.

Witch

500

A huge, hairy creature of the American forests.

Big Foot

500

This American town is famous for its 1692 witch trials.

Salem

500

He directed Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows, and often works with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

Tim Burton

600

A house with ghosts inside is a ___ house.

Haunted

600

This giant creature is said to live in a lake in Scotland.

Ness Monster

600

Halloween's origins come from this country.

Ireland, Scotland, Samhain

600

He wrote The Shining, about a family in a haunted hotel.

Stephen King