Blog The Big Halloween Blog!
By Jenni Harrison | Competitions, Event, Holiday activities, Kids, Recommended Reads, Games, Halloween
October provides the perfect writing inspiration, from pumpkin-spiced lattes, falling leaves, changing seasons and ending with Halloween, so we've used this opportunity to create some fun writing resources to celebrate this wonderful time of year!
The Perfect Halloween Poetry Guide
Have you checked out our how-to guide for the different types of poetry? Walking your young writer through acrostics, colour poems and riddles, this one-stop shop is great to teach them how to write their favourite poem in a spooky manner. Why not get them to try re-writing a poem in a different format? Give it a go and check out the guide here.
Ghost Stories Competitions: The Spook Squad & Fright Club
If stories are more your thing, then see if you can write a chilling tale of ghosts or monsters for our ghost stories competitions. We have two age categories: The Spook Squad for 5-11 and Fright Club for 12-18. See if you can scare our editors. Go on, I dare you! Find out more here.
House of Horrors Game
Download and print out our fun haunted house game here. All you'll need is a dice, a counter for each player, and a pen and paper. Good luck! We hope you make it out alive...
Our Exciting Halloween Hunt
We know that not everyone can get out and about for trick or treating, so we wanted to create something anyone can use to celebrate at home. Click here to head to our Halloween hunt blog, featuring 8 clues to give your young one an exciting chase to earn their sweets! Exclusively based in the home, you can use whichever prizes you want in the hiding spots, or just leave them the next clue to continue to the trail to one grand finale! Check it out and we hope you have a grand ol' time!
Meet the Team!
We all love a bit of Halloween here at Young Writers and thought you'd like to know who is behind the Young Writers team. We have the M-argh!-keting team, Deaditorial and Customer Scare:
M-argh-keting:
Deaditorial:
Customer Scare:
The Spooky Name Game
What's your spooky name? Find out below! We created this handy little guide so anyone can create a devilishly delightful Halloween name, why not even use it as a character name generator? Let us know what you get!
Halloween Recommended Reads
Check out these spooky reads. We've put them in age groups but this is just a guide - we're big fans of reading whatever makes you happy, whatever the 'recommended age' is!
2-5 years
Gustavo the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z Drago
Christopher Pumpkin by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
There’s a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers
We’re Going On A Ghost Hunt by Martha Mumford
The Dinosaur That Pooped Halloween by Tom Fletcher
5-7 years
Bumble and Snug and the Shy Ghost by Mark Bradley
Rudy and the Forbidden Lake by Paul Westmoreland (Read Paul's guest blog with his 3 top tips for writing spooky stories here.)
How To Make Friends With A Ghost by Rebecca Green
Isadora Moon and the Frost Festival by Harriet Muncaster
Ghost Scouts by Taylor Dolan
7-11 years
Amelia Fang by Laura Ellen Anderson
Monster Max and the Bobble Hat of Forgetting by Robin Bennett
Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Monster Hunting For Beginners by Ian Mark
The Vanquishers by Kalynn Bayron
12+
The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud
The House In The Woods by Yvette Fielding
