Halloween Escape Room - The Missing Treat Mystery

Solve the mystery of who stole all the candy from the Halloween party with this interactive Halloween escape room featuring multiplication and division.

Who Stole the Halloween Party’s Candy? – Halloween Escape Room Puzzle Activity
On the night of the Halloween dance at Baylor High, everyone arrives dressed in costumes and bringing their favorite Halloween candy bucket to collect the goodies from the candy table. They wait patiently outside the auditorium doors, preparing themselves to invade the candy table.

Mr. French arrives outside the auditorium and slowly opens the doors to the hall, reminding everyone to be patient and wait in line to get to the table. As he opens the doors, a crowd surges toward the candy table. But then… everyone stops!

The candy table is empty! The party is ruined… unless your students can solve the puzzle and find all the loot!

Practice multiplication and division with this Halloween Escape Room!

This escape room was designed with third and fourth graders in mind, and is the perfect addition to 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 uncover clues. When applied to a list of suspects in a logic puzzle style, these clues will lead to the identity of the thief.

This escape room is a perfect rainy day activity, a fun Halloween activity, and an exciting way to help your students practice multiplication and division from one number to 12. Divide students into pairs or teams and provide each with a clue. Each clue contains five challenges that, when solved correctly, lead to the clues needed to eliminate suspects and locate the thief.

No matter your reason for incorporating it into a lesson, students will use teamwork and problem-solving skills to develop their math and problem-solving skills.

Tips for Stretching and Extending
Extend the activity for your students by

Reading the introduction and discussing the task before beginning.

Divide students into teams of 3-4 students, making sure to have a stronger reader in the group to help with the reading.

Allow students to use the multiplication chart as a reference during the game.