Solve the mystery of who stole all the lollies from the Halloween Party with an interactive Halloween Escape Game featuring multiplication and division.
On the night of the Baylor School Halloween Dance and party, everyone arrives in costume and brings their favourite Halloween treat bucket to collect goodies from the treat table. They wait patiently outside the hall doors, readying themselves for the treat table raid.
Mr French arrives outside the hall and slowly unlocks the doors, reminding everyone to be patient and wait in line to get to the table. As he pulls the doors open, the crowd surges toward the treat table. But then… everyone stops!
The treat table is EMPTY! The party is ruined… unless your students can solve the mystery and find all the loot!
Who Stole the Halloween Party Treats? – Halloween Escape Game
Designed with Year 3 and Year 4 students in mind, this Halloween Escape Game is the perfect addition to the end of your introductory or review lessons on multiplication and division. Students will progress through a series of clues/challenges in which they will solve problems to reveal clues. When applied to a logic-puzzle-style list of suspects, these clues will lead to the thief’s identification.
This Halloween Escape Game is an ideal rainy day activity, a fun Halloween filler activity, and an exciting way to help your students practise single-digit multiplication and division up to 10. Divide students into pairs or teams and provide each with a guidebook. Each guidebook contains five challenges that, when solved correctly, lead to the clues needed to eliminate suspects and locate the thief.
Whatever the reason, if you incorporate it in your lesson, students will use teamwork and problem-solving skills to develop their maths skills.
Scaffolding Techniques for This Escape Game – Halloween Edition
Scaffold the Escape Game – Halloween Activity for your students by
- Read the introduction and discuss the mission before beginning.
- Put students in teams of 3-4 students, ensuring that you have a stronger reader in the mix to assist with reading.
- Allow students to use a Multiplication chart as a reference during the game.
Two-Part Halloween Maths Escape Room for Kids
This Halloween Maths Escape Room activity includes two components.
- Interactive Mission Slides – Students will use these slides to familiarise themselves with the mission and progress through the revelation of each clue.
- Guidebook—This printable component consists of five puzzle-style challenges for students to complete. The clues on these pages lead students to click the correct clue answer in the Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides file, allowing them to progress through the activity.
Use the dropdown arrow located on the Download button to choose between the Google Slides or Microsoft PPT and easy-to-print PDF version of each component.
Remember, you must download both the mission slides (Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint) and the Student Guidebook (Google Slides or PDF).
This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a Teach Starter Collaborator.
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