At Breakout EDU, October is known as Puzzle-tober. It’s a month packed with spook-tacular games, creative challenges, and student excitement. Here are five festive (and delightfully eerie) ways to bring the spooky spirit of the season into your classroom while keeping learning front and center.
Every activity featured below is included in the free Puzzle-tober Activity Bundle — 20+ pages of ready-to-go resources!
1. Motivate Students with “Trick-or-Treat” Challenges 🎃
The student platform got a frightfully fun Halloween makeover this month! As students complete challenges, like solving the Lock of the Day or breaking out of Puzzle-tober games, they’ll collect digital treats to dress up their avatars in spook-tacular style.
2. Sweeten Math Practice with Witty’s Colorful Candy Quest 🍭
Our mascot Witty is back with a brand-new Color & Solve Math Breakout!
Witty’s Colorful Candy Quest blends a hands-on coloring challenge with a digital game that reinforces fact fluency across all four operations. Students solve clues, color by number, and put it all together to Breakout.
3. Warm Up Those BRAAAINS with Lock of the Day 🧠
The Lock of the Day is a daily puzzle that builds math, ELA, and logic skills. Use it as a morning warm-up, bell-ringer, or brain break to help students flex their problem-solving muscles daily.
This month, students can track their progress with the Pumpkin Patch Challenge. Students will color in a pumpkin for each Lock of the Day puzzle that they solve and earn a certificate when their patch is complete!
4. Embark on a Spooktacular Puzzle Design Adventure 🧩
Ready to tap into student creativity? In this hands-on game design activity, students become puzzle creators! Using the included Game Design Template, they’ll craft their own Halloween-themed puzzles, developing storytelling, sequencing, and logic along the way.
💡 Have them watch the “Spook-tacular Puzzle Design Adventures” video with game designers Patti and Ann to learn the secrets behind game creation and spark inspiration for their own designs.
5. Assign Ready-to-Play Puzzletober Games 👻
Keep the festive energy going with the Puzzle-tober Games Collection, a ready-to-go library of Halloween favorites. From “Leaf It to the Gnomes” to “Castle of Shadows” and “Witty’s Pumpkin Problem”, these games are ready-to-go and available to assign to students with one click from your teacher dashboard.
Keep the Spooktacular Learning Going!
October is full of ways to unlock engagement, creativity, and critical thinking. Be sure to download the Puzzle-tober Activity Bundle for step-by-step teacher guides and printable student handouts and coloring pages.
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