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As the end of October approaches, educators often look for creative ways to take advantage of their students' excitement. Halloween — and add that energy to their learning. There's no better way to integrate some spooky fun into lessons than with a Halloween-themed escape room. Halloween escape room activities encourage teamwork, logical thinking and creativity, all while having festive fun.
If you're a teacher looking to bring some excitement to your classroom this season, here are a few spooky-stable Halloween escape rooms that your students will absolutely love!
What is a Halloween Escape Room?
Escape rooms are immersive experiences where students are asked to solve a puzzle or series of puzzles to “escape” a situation or complete a mission. Halloween escape rooms often have a spooky element to set the mood – such as a haunted house, witches, ghosts or zombies.
5 Halloween Escape Rooms for Elementary Students
Kindergarten Halloween Reading Comprehension Escape Room Activity Boom Cards™.
By Viral Teacher
Grades: K-2
This Halloween reading comprehension escape room activity will challenge your kindergarten students to escape zombies while practicing their reading skills. The resource includes Halloween short reading passages and “WH” questions, perfect for your kindergarten and first grade students.
3rd Grade Math Halloween or Fall Counting in 100 Digital Escape Rooms
by The Great Classroom Escape
Grade: 2-3
Ditch your fall math worksheets for a fun and engaging candy corn themed digital escape room activity. Practice multiplying by 100 with an activity that's perfect for a class Halloween party or a review of multiplication techniques. Multiply, divide as fast as possible, your class must catch the Candy Corn Man!
Digital Escape Room Math Game School Witch | Fun digital resources
By Kiwiland
Grades: 3-6
This digital breakout activity is based on a school witch causing mischief. Students must solve 5 math problems and crack the code of a digital lock that reverses the magic spell.
Haunted House Halloween Reading Comprehension Escape Room Activity 4th 5th Grade
by Magico
Grades: 4-5
Ready for a fun Halloween escape room? Well, this activity is all about making reading skills fun and exciting. Students are asked to complete four unique challenges, which require them to read passages and answer multiple-choice questions. Each answer will unlock a piece of secret code that is needed to complete the challenge.
Halloween Escape Room – October Math Activity
By Shelley Gray
Grades: 3-5
Ready to take Halloween math to a whole new level? Your students are going to love this Halloween-themed escape room-style activity where they'll crack codes and work together as a team to overcome obstacles and save their dog from an old abandoned house.
6 Halloween Escape Rooms for Middle and High School Students
Halloween Science Escape Room Activity | Game Science Digital Breakout Review
By EzPz-Science
Grades: 5-8
Keep your students engaged in science learning, even when it's Halloween. Students will have a blast with this Halloween escape room as they use their knowledge of middle school science subjects to escape this science breakout.
Halloween Science Escape Room – Middle School Activities
By Kessler Science
Grades: 6-8
Your students will love the opportunity to learn or review science concepts in a fun, challenging way! It's a great way to channel extra energy into a classroom and everything is prepared for you with minimal preparation.
Halloween Science Activities Digital Escape Room Scientific Method Middle School
By Animated Teacher
Grades: 6-9
Want a fun Halloween science activity with zero prep? This Halloween Scientific Method digital escape room has you covered! No matter what topic you cover in your science curriculum, reviewing the scientific method is always relevant.
Halloween Escape Room Zombie Teacher Breakout Game Activity
By Presto plan
Grades: 7-10
Help foster classroom community and improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills with this creative and fun Halloween escape room team builder activity. The teacher is transformed into a zombie, and the students must decode puzzles, riddles, and challenges to turn the elements into humans! It can be used in English class because it covers some ELA skills (spelling, homophones), but it can work for any other subject too!
Halloween “The Tale Tell Heart” Escape Room for Grades 7-10 ELA
Read it Write it Learn it
Grades: 7-10
Engage middle and high school ELA students with an escape room based around Edgar Allan Poe's “The Telltale Heart.” Can the students piece together the plot and find the Old Man's heart? Find out with this escape room!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Digital Escape Room, Escape the Woods, Halloween
By Daniel Knight
Grades: 7-12
Escape to the forest with Ichabod Crane! Based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this digital escape room is an innovative breakout game that lets teachers and students engage in escape room fun.
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