The Werewolf of Willow Street
A Halloween escape room where teen A2 learners solve puzzles about a mysterious werewolf. They learn and practise words and sentences they can use to talk about Halloween.
A free Escape Room for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Halloween mystery.
It is Halloween night, and your class is at a party in an old house on Willow Street. Suddenly, the door locks and you hear a long howl from the garden. A note on the wall says: 'Solve my puzzles before midnight, or the werewolf will come inside!' Work together, find the secret word, and open the…
Solve all seven puzzles, collect one letter from each, and spell the 7-letter secret word that opens the door.
Puzzles
- 🌕 Who Is at the Window?: On Halloween night, Tom looked out of the window. He saw a man in the garden. When the full moon came out, the man changed into a big, hairy wolf! What did Tom see?
- 🎃 Halloween Words: Match each Halloween word with its meaning.
- 😱 How Do You Feel?: Unscramble this word: DRACES. It describes how you feel when you hear a strange noise in a dark house.
- 👻 Monster Meeting: Three of these words are creatures in scary stories. Which word does NOT belong?
- 🔐 The Secret Message: The werewolf wrote a secret message on the door. Use the code A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Z=26 to read it. The word is a sound that wolves make at the full moon.
- 🌳 Where Is the Werewolf?: hiding old The garden. was werewolf the in
- 🕛 The Midnight Party: Read the story. Are the sentences true or false?
Printable worksheet
This Escape Room comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Core sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Write each answer.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Write each answer.
- 🌕 Who Is at the Window? On Halloween night, Tom looked out of the window. He saw a man in the garden. When the full moon came out, the man changed into a big, hairy wolf! What did Tom see? a) witch b) werewolf c) skeleton d) ghost
- 🎃 Halloween Words Match each Halloween word with its meaning. pumpkin costume bat full moon special clothes you wear for a party a small animal that flies at night a big orange vegetable with a face a big round light in the night sky
- 😱 How Do You Feel? Unscramble this word: DRACES. It describes how you feel when you hear a strange noise in a dark house. R E A C D S