This is the perfect escape room mystery for ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ Day or a Pirate room transformation!

Teams read a story about a pirate ship captain giving clues to his crew to find and unlock a treasure chest. Teams must complete 4 puzzles to find the lock code for the treasure chest.

Of course, this is fiction. There is not a buried treasure but you could follow up on this mystery case with a Treasure Chest STEM Challenge!

This mystery escape is perfect for the beginning of the school year.

Teams will read a short story about a class visiting the STEM Lab for the first time. In the story, students wonder what their first STEM project will be.

After solving the case, the teacher (you) will inform the class of the topic of their first STEM Challenge.

You need to add the Classroom Rules STEM Challenge to this adventure!

The Case of the Missing Teacher is a fun easy-prep breakout for the teacher! She is hiding and encourages teams to find her hiding place by completing 4 puzzle tasks.

The tasks lead to a “lock code” to open the door of the closet she is concealed in.

Perfect for back to school time or any time to encourage teamwork and have fun solving problems.

Students will read a short fictional mystery about a grammar quiz. Their teacher has challenged them to finish 4 grammar puzzles to ‘outsmart’ the Grammar Police.

This escape has students completing grammar tasks and worksheet puzzles. 

This is the Case of the Grammar Police!

The Case of the Stolen Glue Sticks is an amazing breakout! Students discover they cannot start their eagerly awaited Dragon Art Project because their glue sticks have vanished.

They must complete 4 puzzles using reading comprehension to find the escape code and solve this mystery. All the reading passages for the puzzles are about DRAGONS!

Perfect for back to school time!

This No-Locks Mini Escape Room is based on a short fictional account of students on a field trip. As they get ready to leave the museum they find that their are hundred of buses in the parking lot and they don’t which is theirs.

They must solve 4 puzzles to determine the 4-digit number- which happens to be their bus number!

This one is so much fun because students love, love, love haunted houses. In this mini-escape teams enter a ‘pretend’ haunted house in the story they read. They visit each room and encounter strange items.

Then they must complete four puzzles to determine the lock code to unlock the haunted house exit door. (Which is also ‘pretend’, of course.)

Super fun, not scary and perfect for Halloween and the month of October!

Use this one for fall or Halloween season- even into Thanksgiving time. Students are visiting a pumpkin patch and are challenged to try the pumpkin maze. Of course, they get lost in it and must solve 4 puzzles to find the way out.

This newest mini-escape is so fun! It features extreme sports, like bungee jumping and skateboarding. Students are sent (in a fictional story) to find their tour guide of the sports arena. Messages send them to each sport.

Finally, they discover they must complete 4 puzzles to solve The Case of the Extreme Sports Arena.

The puzzles include a secret code message, mini-mazes and fill-in-the-blank answers, matching words, to categories, and identifying true-false statements.

Perfect for use right before a field trip!

This fabulous paper/pencil breakout includes reading a fiction story and completing four puzzles to “escape.” This is The Case of the Football Stadium.

Puzzle tasks include:

• Find true statements from the secret mission story.
• Find the missing word from a sentence.
• Use a coordinate grid and decoder.
• Find synonyms of words from the puzzle story.

Students love, love, love the adventure of this story. It’s about a field trip to a football stadium and getting accidentally locked in the locker room! Can students escape?

Imagine being asked to ride a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. The group in this mystery escape is ready for the excitement, only to discover their float cannot get moving. The tow truck for the float is LOCKED!

They must solve 4 puzzles to find the lock code and join the festivities in the parade!

This mini-escape is my favorite! The puzzles are just super interesting and challenging.

Students must replace words with antonyms, complete a tangle maze, find missing words from quotes, and find correct answers in a multiple-choice format.

The story is that an important elf is missing from Santa’s Workshop, and students set off to find him!

Perfect for January and February. Use this engaging mini escape to have fun learning about the interests and hobbies of some of the US presidents.

Students solve a secret message, determine true-false statements, answer multiple-choice questions, and find a message in a word search puzzle.

This is The Case of the Presidents’ Trivia!

Students read a short fictional story. In the story, students are told they will research and write a report about Arctic animals. As they begin, they are suddenly ‘transported’ to the Arctic!

They discover their teacher has assigned 4 puzzles to complete to get back to school. Each puzzle features facts about the Arctic and its animals.

The Case of the Melting Snowman will send students searching for clues to determine the reason for the melting. After solving 4 puzzles, they will all have logical reasons for the melting snowman, and they will have a lot of fun!

The Case of the Pesky Groundhog is a delightful addition to your February 2nd events. Students read a short fictional story. In the story, students are told they will research groundhogs and design a poster using their notes.

They will complete 4 puzzle tasks. Each puzzle gives the students a secret word.

This one will be a big hit in your classroom.

The Case of the Valentine Bakery will have students searching for a missing cookie cake. They will discover its location only to find the door is locked. Solving 4 puzzles will get that door open and save their Valentine’s Day party!

love this one so much! The story of the vanishing worms is so funny and the Earthworm Detectives take off to solve the mystery.

Of course, students are not really taking off- it’s a paper/pencil activity.

Students complete 4 tasks to find a 4-digit number code to “unlock” a pretend garden shed door to find the worms!

PERFECT FOR EARTH DAY!

Oh, my, this one is so fabulous. Students read a short story about pranks being played in a small town. Students from the school begin to investigate.

To find the prankster teams must complete 4 puzzles. Each puzzle gives students a secret word that is then added to a Decoder to find a 4-digit number.

The number “unlocks” the hiding place of the prankster!

SO MUCH FUN!

This mystery escape is perfect for the end of the year or summer school.

The story is that an elementary student arrives home on the last day of school to find the family is leaving on a trip. He must gather together all the family pets

But the Sneaky Cat is hiding!

The boy gets neighbors to help and they solve 4 puzzles to solve The Case of the Sneaky Cat and escape on vacation!

This fabulous paper/pencil breakout includes reading a fiction story and completing four puzzles to “escape.” This is The Case of the Super Bowl Frenzy.

Teams find themselves “locked” in the equipment room while touring the Super Bowl venue. A Bonus puzzle is included!

This mini breakout is one of our favorites! It’s all about basketball with a fictional story sprinkled with basketball history facts.

Students solve 4 puzzles using reading skills, math, and logic. The premise of this one is that teams can ‘earn’ a ticket to the college tournament!

It’s exciting and all pretend!