Play a Thanksgiving Escape Room game and practice two-and-three digit addition for holiday fun!
Who Stole the Thanksgiving Feast? – Thanksgiving Escape Room Mystery Activity
Welcome to the Robins’ home. It’s time for Thanksgiving dinner! As you enter the room, the warm aroma of Thanksgiving dinner fills the air. The table is beautifully set with all the traditional dishes: a golden turkey, steaming mashed potatoes, savory stuffing, and an array of delectable pies. Excitement fills the room as your family and friends prepare to dig into this mouthwatering feast. However, just as you’re about to take the first bite, the lights suddenly flicker and then go out completely, plunging the room into darkness. When the lights come back on a few minutes later, you’re all shocked to discover that the Thanksgiving feast has vanished without a trace!
The mission is clear: students have just 60 minutes to unravel the mystery, gather clues, and identify the Thanksgiving dinner thief before it’s too late. The fate of the Robins’ Thanksgiving party rests in their hands! As students work together to solve puzzles, decipher riddles, and piece together the clues hidden throughout the room, they’ll uncover a web of secrets, motives, and hidden agendas. Will they crack the case and unmask the feast thief before the timer runs out?
Practice Multi-Digit Addition with a Thanksgiving Escape Room!
Designed with second and third-graders in mind, this escape room is the perfect addition to the end of your introductory or review lessons on multi–digit addition. Students will progress through a series of clues/challenges in which they will solve problems to reveal clues. When applied to a logic-puzzle-style list of suspects, these clues will lead to the thief’s identification.
This escape room makes for an ideal rainy-day activity, a fun Thanksgiving activity, and an exciting way to help your students practice 2 and 3-digit addition. Divide students into pairs or teams and provide each with a guidebook. Each guidebook contains five challenges that, when solved correctly, lead to the clues needed to eliminate suspects and locate the thief.
Whatever the reason you incorporate it in your lesson, students will use teamwork and problem-solving skills to develop their math and problem-solving skills.
Modifications for Struggling Students
Scaffold the activity for your students by
- Reading the introduction and discussing the mission before beginning.
- Put students in teams of 3-4 students, ensuring that you have a stronger reader in the mix to assist with reading.
- Allow students to use base ten blocks or place value charts to reference during the game.
Two-Part Thanksgiving Breakout Room for Kids
This resource includes two components.
- Interactive Google Slides Mission Slides – Students will use these slides to familiarize themselves with the mission and progress through the revelation of each clue.
- Guidebook – This printable component is a group of five puzzle-style challenges for students to complete problems. The clues on these pages will lead them to click the correct clue answer in the Google Slide file, allowing them to progress through the activity.
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