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As the end of October draws nearer, educators often look for creative ways to take advantage of their students’ excitement for Halloween — and channel that energy into their learning. There’s no better way to integrate a bit of spooky fun into lessons than through a Halloween-themed escape room. Halloween escape room activities encourage teamwork, logical thinking, and creativity, all while having a little bit of festive fun.
If you’re a teacher looking to bring some excitement into your classroom this season, here are a few eerie-sistible Halloween escape rooms that your students will absolutely love!
What Are Halloween Escape Rooms?
Escape rooms are immersive experiences where students are asked to solve a puzzle or series of puzzles in order to “escape” from a situation or complete a mission. Halloween escape rooms often included a spooky element to set the mood — like a haunted house, witches, ghosts, or zombies.
5 Halloween Escape Rooms for Elementary Students
Kindergarten Halloween Reading Comprehension Escape Room Activity Boom Cards™
By The Viral Teacher
Grades: K-2
This Halloween reading comprehension escape room activity will challenge your kindergarten students to escape from the 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 Multiplication within 100 Digital Escape Room
By The Great Classroom Escape
Grades: 2-3
Ditch your fall math worksheets for a fun and engaging candy corn themed digital escape room activity. Practice multiplying within 100 with an activity that is perfect for a class Halloween party or for a review of multiplication strategies. Multiply, divide as fast as you can, your class has to catch the Candy Corn Man!
Digital Escape Room Math Game The School Witch | Fun Digital Resources
By Kiwiland
Grades: 3-6
This digital breakout activity is based on a school witch causing mischief. Students are required to solve 5 math activities and crack the code to a digital lock that reverses the magic spell.
Haunted House Halloween Reading Comprehension Escape Room Activity 4th 5th Grade
By MagiCore
Grades: 4-5
Ready for a fun Halloween escape room? Well, this activity is all about making practicing 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 portion of the 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 will crack codes and work together as a team to overcome the obstacles and save their dog from the old abandoned house.
6 Halloween Escape Rooms for Middle & High School Students
Halloween Science Escape Room Activity | Science Digital Breakout Review Game
By EzPz-Science
Grades: 5-8
Keep your students engaged in learning science, even when it’s Halloween. Students will have a blast with this Halloween escape room as they use their knowledge of middle school science topics to make an escape from this science breakout.
Halloween Science Escape Room – Middle School Activities
By Kesler 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 excess energy in a classroom and everything is prepared for you with minimal prep.
Halloween Science Activity Digital Escape Room Scientific Method Middle School
By The Animated Teacher
Grades: 6-9
Want a fun Halloween science activity that is zero prep? This Halloween scientific method digital escape room has you covered! No matter what topic you are up to in your science curriculum, it is always relevant to review the scientific method.
Halloween Escape Room Zombie Teacher Breakout Game Activity
By Presto Plans
Grades: 7-10
Use this creative and fun Halloween escape room team builder activity to help foster classroom community and improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The teacher has transformed into a zombie, and students must decode puzzles, riddles, and challenges to get the ingredients to turn them back into a human! This can be used in English class as it incorporates some ELA skills (spelling, homophones), but can also work for any other subject!
Halloween “The Tell Tale Heart” Escape Room for Grades 7-10 ELA
By Read It Write It Learn It
Grades: 7-10
Engage middle and high school ELA students with an escape room around “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. Can 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 Danielle Knight
Grades: 7-12
Escape the woods with Ichabod Crane! This digital escape room based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun.
Find more eerie-sistible Halloween escape rooms that will delight and engage your students on TPT.
