6 Hilarious Halloween Poems for Kids

If the candy doesn’t get them laughing, these poems sure will.

With Halloween just around the corner, we’re highlighting our favourite poems for spooky season.

Reading poetry is an excellent strategy to support phonemic awareness and reading success. It’s a win-win if they make the kids laugh, too!

Here are 6 of our favourite Halloween poems from former Children’s Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt:

#1 — When Frankenstein Sat Down to Dine

#2 — The Headless Horseman’s Hattery

#3 — Incomplete Trick-or-Treat

#4 — To Some It’s Known as Halloween

#5 — It’s Halloween, My Face is Green

#6 — My Creepy Costume

We hope these poems make your students laugh as much as we did!

Check out 200 more of Kenn’s Nesbitt’s laugh-out-loud poetry in the Simbi Library!