Check out This Amazing DIY Operation-Style Game

This is definitely not a beginner project, but it’s so cool I couldn’t resist sharing it.

The Maker Mom has step-by-step instructions for making a power gems mining game modeled on Operation.

The back of the board is covered with aluminum foil so when the edges of the holes are touched by conductive tweezers, an LED light is illuminated.

The project requires a little wiring work and some soldering, so it should be completed by a parent or an older child with close supervision. But it would definitely be worth the effort to have this fun DIY game to play.

And of course you can make it a different theme depending on what you child is into.

Would you love one of these games? What sort of a game would your kid love?

[Photo: The Maker Mom.]

After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun.

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images.

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub.

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more.

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them.

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher.

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