Halloween Poems for Kids
The best Halloween poems for kids of all ages – featuring bats, pumpkins, goblins and spooks. Help kids get into the Halloween spirit and be creative with some frightful Halloween poetry!
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Flutter, Flutter Little Bat
by Leanne Guenther
Flutter, flutter little bat,
How I wonder where you’re at.
Swooping through the darkest night –
You find your way without a light.
Flutter, flutter little bat,
How I wonder where you’re at!
A Magic Chant
by Samuel Exler (1992 – 2008)
If in the dark you’re frightened,
Here’s all you have to do.
Say: Igga bigga,
Hunka bunka,
Dinka danka doo.
These words give you protection
From ghosts-and witches, too.
Say: Igga bigga,
Hunka bunka,
Dinka danka doo.
So if at night a monster
Should whisper, I’ll get you,”
Yell: Igga bigga,
Hunka bunka,
Dinka danka doo.
Only Naughty Children See Spooks on Halloween
by Winifred Sackvile Stoner, Jr.
Witches and goblins, spooks and elves,
With sprites and gnomes from elf-land delves,
Tonight are flying here and there,
Yes, up and down and everywhere.
For this one night in all the year
They rule the earth and bring great fear
To all the naughty little boys
Who tease good girls and break their toys.
These spooks they also make girls sad
When they are selfish, cross and bad;
So when it’s dark, bad boys and maids,
They see these awful fearsome shades,
And that is why with covered heads,
They trembling lie in their warm beds.
But even there they goblins see,
Spooks and gnomes, and all that be
Abroad upon weird Halloween
When all the wizards may be seen
By naughty kids and grown-up folks
Who like to play most wicked jokes.
But good young girls and gentle boys,
The kids who are their mothers’ joys
They like the dark just as the light,
For spooks never come within their sight,
And in their dreams they lovely elves
Show them bright scenes from fairy delves.
So, if tonight you are afraid
Of any spook or any shade,
We’ll know you are a naughty child,
So cross and willful, rude and wild.
Jack-o-Lantern
Author Unknown
Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern,
You are such a funny sight.
As you sit there by the window,
Looking out into the night.
You were once a sturdy pumpkin,
growing on a curly vine.
Now you are a Jack-o-lantern,
See your night lights shine.
Ghost Bus
by Joe Wayman
Underneath the lamp post,
In the middle of the night,
A ghost bus make a silent stop,
A strange and fearful sight.
At the bus top at your corner,
Something big and green climbed down.
It’s looking for your bedroom,
And it has searched all over town.
You thought it couldn’t find you,
That you were safe and you were sound.
You thought that you could hide,
Where you never could be found.
But now it’s almost here,
You know it loves the dark of night.
There’s only one thing you can do,
Quick! Turn on the light!
Whew!
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