You probably already know that escape rooms have become hugely popular in primary grades recently. They’re exciting, unique, engaging, and make your students think! What’s not to love? They’re perfect for any grade in elementary.
If you haven’t heard of this before, you may be wondering what escape rooms are.
An escape room is an escape game where your students have to work together in real life to discover clues, solve puzzles, and complete tasks in order to escape. But how do you do an escape room with 5 and 6 year old kindergarten students?
It may seem obvious, but you don’t actually need to have expensive locks, fancy boxes, or big prizes. My escape rooms meet standards, don’t need locks, encourage 100% engagement, and get kids to work together in teams to help each other open any box and escape their room. The activities and puzzles are grade level appropriate so they will be just challenging enough to be fun.
My escape rooms have 3 to 5 tasks for students to solve in order to get their next clue. They also have video hooks to build anticipation. You can make it fun by letting them escape the room and go to recess, the library, or really get the excitement up with a cookie party!
Escape rooms make a GREAT Halloween activity, especially. The Halloween theme will add a spooky and fun twist.
This Halloween Escape Room is for kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students. It includes step-by-step instructions that will guarantee student engagement while your students work together to find the missing classroom pumpkin that was stolen by the werewolf.
Check out this escape room Halloween Mystery video to hook them in!
Want to see this Halloween Escape Room in action? Check out this fun video from The Magical Teacher to see how she used in her classroom for a thrilling Halloween mystery.
Do you use escape rooms in your classroom? Let me know in the comments!
Looking for more Halloween activities, check out my post here for Halloween crafts and center ideas!