Figurative Language Activities - Holiday Bundle - Digital & Printable

Share some holiday fun with your middle school students...while still learning! Keep them engaged and learning with fun figurative language activities for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day! These figurative language review activities cover similes and metaphors, personification practice, hyperboles, symbolism, and holiday-related idioms. Your students will identify types of figurative language, analyze their meanings, and write their own examples.

This bundle includes the following resources:

• Halloween Figurative Language
• Thanksgiving Figurative Language
• Christmas Figurative Language
• Valentine's Day Figurative Language
• St. Patrick's Day Figurative Language

Each resource in this bundle includes the following digital versions:

• Google Slides (link in PDF)
• Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)

These engaging figurative language worksheets are perfect as homework assignments, in-class reviews, graded practice, or fillers for those crazy "fun days" in middle school. They also make excellent no-prep sub plans - just print and use!

Each resource includes activities for:

• Matching figurative language types to their definitions
• Matching figurative sentences to what they actually mean
• Interpreting the meaning of examples in real-world poems, songs, and proverbs
• Writing creative comparisons
• Differentiating between literal and figurative meanings
• Matching idioms to their meanings and fill-in-the-blank sentences
• Writing sentences using idioms in context
• Identifying common symbols of each holiday and guessing their origins

Your students will enjoy talking about ghosts, leprechauns, turkeys, and other seasonal topics as they practice reading comprehension and figurative language skills! I hope this bundle adds some fun to your English class this year!

(Answer keys are included in each resource.)