HALLOWEEN BINGO! Differentiated For K-5th
Play BINGO by matching called-out Halloween pictures/words to a personal board, marking matches until a row, column, or full board is complete.
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Bring Halloween into classroom games with bingo, matching, team challenges and escape rooms. Choose the academic skill, social format or movement activity that fits your lesson.
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Play BINGO by matching called-out Halloween pictures/words to a personal board, marking matches until a row, column, or full board is complete.
Teams select categories and dollar amounts, answer clues in question form across 30 rounds and 6 categories, including 2 randomized Daily Doubles and a wagering Final Jeopardy round.
A Halloween-themed picture-matching (memory) card game with 16 matching pairs of Halloween-related images/words.
A set of five Halloween-themed classroom party games/activities: an 'I Spy Halloween' counting activity, a 'Roll a Pumpkin' dice-and-draw game, a Halloween-themed Tic-Tac-Toe, a 'Halloween A-Z' alphabet vocabulary game, and a 'How Many Candies' jar-guessing game.
Each student reads their card's 'I have a [word]' statement aloud, then asks 'Who has a [word]?'; the student holding the matching card responds next, continuing until all 24 cards have been read and the chain loops back to the start.
Working in teams of 3 (2 passengers, 1 'motor'), students build a scooter cart, then push it to rival teams' hula-hoop 'kettles' to collect witch-hat cones by pinching them between their feet/ankles and transferring them back to their own kettle, racing to collect one cone from every team.
Access a digital escape-room link (shared by the teacher, usable on laptop/tablet/smartphone) to solve order-of-operations puzzles in a Halloween/zombie narrative; additionally, complete four printable quizzes solving one-step 'solve for x' equations and order-of-operations expressions with parentheses, checked…
Roll dice and move a game piece around the board; when landing on a space, read the printed question aloud and answer it verbally (or in writing) with a partner or small group, about Halloween.
Spin a paperclip spinner and cover the cauldron number that, added to the spun number, makes 10; the player who covers all their cauldrons first wins.
Flip two cards at a time from a grid to find matching picture pairs (or, with the word-only set, match a word card to its picture).
Word search puzzle themed around a haunted house / Halloween escape room vocabulary.
Make this Halloween memorable for middle-schoolers with an intriguing Digital Escape Room where mastering reading and plotting points on the coordinate plane form part of the adventure! Herein, learners get an opportunity to engage in guiding a little zombie back to the cemetery while reinforcing some of the critical…
Vocabulary word-scramble puzzle themed around a haunted house / Halloween escape room.
Find hidden Halloween vocabulary words in a word search; spot 13 differences between two images; and answer 10 Halloween trivia questions (some multiple-choice), checking answers against a provided key.
Self-correcting digital escape-room game practicing multiple-meaning words/homonyms, in a Halloween 'Haunted House' theme.
Solve 20 integer arithmetic problems (10 addition/subtraction, 10 multiplication/division), then access a linked digital download (per instructions: click the embedded picture) to continue the escape-room experience.
A Halloween-themed counting/matching game to build number recognition and one-to-one correspondence for numbers 0 to 20.
Complete interactive on-screen music activities: matching music symbols/pairs, finding symbols, adding up counts, identifying rhythm values, drag-and-drop tasks, and true/false questions; correct completion triggers a 'witch's cackle' sound reward.
Provide Halloween-themed 'number mat' seek-and-find activities for number recognition, with numbers scattered across a mat for students to find.
Cards are shuffled and distributed; a player asks 'Who has [item]?', the student holding the matching card calls 'I have...' and asks for the next item, chaining until the last card is found.
Solve four sets of one-step equations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication/division forms) to unlock successive story stages and reach the end of the escape room.
A Halloween-themed bingo game for practicing number recognition of numbers 0-10, using bingo boards, calling cards, and playing squares.
Unscramble 24 rounds of Halloween-themed scrambled words within a 30-second timer per round; each correct answer earns 1 point.
Solve one-step algebraic equations (e.g. x-7=4, 3x=27, x/2=-5) across four quizzes to progress through an online escape room accessed via a shared link.