Halloween AAC Activities
Halloween offers a perfect opportunity to practice communication skills in fun, social settings. Whether your AAC user is trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, making crafts at the kitchen table, or reading spooky stories together, these activities build real-world language skills while celebrating the season.
These three Halloween activities are designed to help AAC users practice essential vocabulary and sentence building in natural, engaging contexts. Each activity includes the materials you’ll need, target words to focus on, and example sentences to model on the device.
Trick or Treating:
Set up your own “Trick or Treat” or go out with the child
to an organized event!
Words to focus on: trick, treat, hello/goodbye, thank you, candy.
Sentence you can make: “Trick or Treat!, I’m dressed as a ____.,” “Thank you for the candy.”
Activity:
Trick-or-treating can be a fun social activity for all ages. Work on your AAC user’s ability to use their device in a social situation and take them around the school, clinic, neighborhood, etc. You can even set up a practice trick-or-treating in your house!
Spider craft:
Materials you need: black paper, googly eyes scissors,
markers/crayons, glue.
Words to focus on: spider, cut, glue, colors, body parts, shapes.
Sentences you can make: Cut the paper, The spider is black, He has
eight legs.
Activity:
Cut the body for the spider and eight legs. Glue on the legs
and eyes, they can even pick how many eyes they want! Talk about his
body parts and what you will need to do to make the spider using your
child’s device.
Read a Halloween Book:
Materials you need: Your favorite Halloween Book!
Suggested books:
The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandre
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Words to focus on: read, book, your book’s specific Halloween word (i.e., bat, pumpkin, broom, witch, Halloween, Trick-or-Treat, etc.)
Sentences you can make: Turn the page, Let’s read again, I like this book.
Activity:
Read the book with your client. Model the words and pictures you see in the book on the device. Program some of their favorite books on the device and let them pick which one to read.
Halloween activities create natural opportunities for AAC users to practice communication in social settings. This guide includes three seasonal activities—trick-or-treating, spider crafts, and Halloween book reading—complete with target vocabulary, example sentences, and step-by-step instructions. Each activity helps build core language skills like greetings, requests, descriptions, and social phrases while keeping the focus on fun and engagement.
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