Halloween Keyboarding Games
Learning to type can be a frustrating for many children, but a good way to make it fun is with games that promote good keyboarding skills. If Halloween is right around the corner, you can heighten children's excitement about the holiday to encourage them to type with a silly or spooky Halloween-themed typing game. There is a wealth of free typing games on the Internet that are appropriate for children of all ages.
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Trick or Type
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Trick or Type (freetypinggame.net/play17.asp) is a simple, fun game that combines trick-or-treating with typing practice. In the game, children help trick-or-treating ghosts collect candy as it falls from the sky by typing the letter combinations under each piece of candy. As the game progresses, the candy drops increasingly faster, requiring quick typing skills and accuracy to collect all the candy. You can customize the difficulty level as well as choose from 40 different lessons that range from Home Rows to Commonly Misspelled Words.
Super Hyper Spider Typer
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In Super Hyper Spider Typer (resources.kaboose.com/games/super-hyper-spider-typer.html), you play Berry, a spider who needs to climb to the top of the tree to escape hungry chameleons. As Berry climbs up the tree, you need to make the advancing chameleons disappear by typing the letters that appear on their backs. As children progress in the game, the chameleons change colors and require you to type multiple words and letters at a time. You can choose three difficulty levels to challenge children's typing skills.
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The Typing of the Ghosts
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The Typing of the Ghosts (surfnetkids.com/games/ghost_typing.htm) is a challenging and spooky game that requires quick typing skills. In this game, children are faced with a dark landscape with a spooky castle in the background as ghosts approach. They start small, but quickly get big enough to fill the screen and destroy lives if they aren't destroyed by typing the words they carry. The aim of the game is to destroy all of the ghosts.
Typing Monster
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Halloween is nothing without monsters, and a fun way to combine children's love of monsters with typing is with the game Typing Monster (primarygames.com/langarts/typingmonster/index.htm). In this game, children are faced with a Godzilla-like creature that can be defeated only by typing the words that appear on the magic scrolls. From time to time, the monster will shoot fireballs, which must be defeated by typing the number on them. The aim of the game is to type enough scrolls so that the monster is defeated.
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