Looking for creative ways to celebrate French Halloween in your classroom? Whether you teach Core French or French Immersion, seasonal activities are a great way to bring vocabulary, culture, and creativity together. From spooky escape games to meaningful lessons on La Toussaint, these French Halloween activities will engage your students while strengthening their language skills.
Here are 10 fun and easy activities you can use this October and November—perfect for connecting French Halloween with cultural traditions like La Toussaint and even French Thanksgiving.
1. Discover La Toussaint: Bilingual Activity Packet
Introduce your students to La Toussaint, an important French holiday that honors loved ones who have passed. This bilingual packet includes differentiated presentations (English & French), comprehension questions, vocabulary games, a symbolic maze, and even a cross-cultural comparison with Mexico’s Día de los Muertos.
Students can also complete an ancestor reflection writing activity, making this a meaningful cultural lesson beyond typical French Halloween activities. Click here!
La Toussaint: Bilingual Activity Packet
2. French Halloween Escape Game: The Mystery of the Missing Lantern
Turn your classroom into a spooky adventure! In this French Halloween escape game for French Beginners, students work together to solve 7 puzzles and uncover the mystery of the missing magic lantern at Spooky Manor.
Tasks include decoding messages, solving mazes, and unscrambling words—all while practicing French Halloween vocabulary. This is a low-prep, high-engagement way to combine teamwork and language learning.
3. Les Catacombes de Paris Paper Quilt
Bring a little Parisian mystery into your lessons with a Les Catacombes de Paris classroom quilt. Students color and write on collaborative quilt squares inspired by the catacombs, featuring humorous skeletons, French expressions, and creative wordplay.
This collaborative art project doubles as a vocabulary-builder and makes a perfect French Halloween classroom display.
Les Catacombes de Paris Paper Quilt
4. La Toussaint & French Halloween Quilt Project
Combine remembrance and celebration with this French Halloween and La Toussaint quilt project. Students color vocabulary squares, decorate themed images, and create their own original writing pieces related to autumn traditions.
When assembled, the quilt becomes a vibrant classroom display that highlights both spooky and meaningful aspects of French culture.
5. French Halloween Reading Comprehension Stories
Beginner French students will love these short, accessible Halloween stories: Une petite citrouille, Mon costume, and Les bonbons. Each story comes with comprehension questions and vocabulary practice featuring key words like citrouille, fantôme, squelette, and sorcière.
A perfect addition to your French Halloween activities for reading fluency and vocabulary reinforcement.
6. Design Your Own French Halloween Costume (Freebie!)
This French Halloween freebie is a simple yet interactive activity: students design and label their own Halloween costumes.
You can extend the activity with speaking practice (students describe their costumes) or even connect it to La Toussaintand French Thanksgiving for a seasonal cultural unit.
Design Your Own French Halloween Costume
7. Fall “Would You Rather?” French Game, bell work
Keep students speaking with this Fall Would You Rather game, featuring 25 “Tu préfères… ?” cards. These cards work beautifully for French Halloween and French Thanksgiving—students can compare seasonal foods, costumes, or spooky traditions.
It’s a flexible, no-prep activity perfect for warm-ups, bell work, or conversation starters.
Fall “Would You Rather?” French Game, bell work
8. Fall Escape Game: The Mystery of the Missing Recipe
Add a twist to your fall lessons with this French escape game focused on autumn vocabulary. Students must solve 7 puzzles to discover what happened to the baker and the town’s legendary spiced donut recipe.
While not strictly Halloween, this fall escape room pairs well with other French Halloween activities and bridges into French Thanksgiving lessons.
Fall Escape Game: The Mystery of the Missing Recipe
9. La Toussaint Chat Mat: Speaking Activity
Encourage meaningful conversations with this La Toussaint chat mat. Packed with key vocabulary, verbs, and sentence starters, it supports students in talking about remembrance, family traditions, and cultural practices tied to this holiday.
This activity is no-prep and works well for pair or group speaking practice.
10. Virtual Field Trip: Les Catacombes de Paris
Take your students on a virtual journey to the famous Paris Catacombs! This 27-slide presentation (in French) includes cultural facts, videos, anticipatory questions, and closing activities.
It’s a perfect French Halloween classroom activity, blending spooky history with authentic cultural learning.
Why Add French Halloween and La Toussaint Activities to Your Classroom?
By weaving together French Halloween activities, lessons on La Toussaint, and even French Thanksgiving themes, you create a seasonal unit that is fun, meaningful, and culturally rich. Students not only practice vocabulary and grammar, but also gain insight into how French-speaking cultures celebrate autumn traditions.
From escape games to collaborative art and virtual field trips, these 10 activities are low-prep, adaptable, and sure to make October and November lessons unforgettable.