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As temperatures drop and the days get shorter, a winter escape room can help your students stay focused and active. Challenges are themed around seasonal elements such as snow, holidays, or arctic animals, and students use critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and subject matter knowledge to solve puzzles. Warm your students’ learning mindset with these teacher-approved winter escape rooms.
5 winter escape rooms for elementary school students
From math escape rooms to puzzle challenges aligned with ELA and SEL concepts, elementary school students of any age can enjoy escape room fun this winter. Make sure your puzzles are not too difficult and take extra time to explain what an escape room is. To really boost engagement, use props like winter clothing accessories, fake snow, black scrap paper, and white crayons or chalk.
Winter Grammar Escape Room – ELA Grammar Review
through unique upper
Grade: Grade 3 to Grade 5
This Winter Grammar Escape Room is the perfect tool to motivate students to do their best while collaborating with their peers. The pesky penguin is in trouble, and your students need to save him by completing five printable challenges that cover parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and context clues.
Problem Scale Winter Escape Room Collaborative Learning SEL Activities
Via Counselor Station
Grade: Grade 3 to Grade 5
Support students’ ability to evaluate problems through engaging, collaborative learning activities. Students will be divided into four groups and complete four tasks to escape an avalanche while learning to identify the severity of a problem and apply problem-solving skills and coping strategies. During each mission, students will unlock a code and receive tiles representing the tools needed to escape the mission.
Winter Escape Room | Mystery Escape from the Blizzard | ELA Escape Room
by collaboration class
Grade: 4th-6th grade
Standard: CCSS RL.4.1, 4.4, 5.1
Increase student engagement with this CCSS-aligned escape room activity where students work with partners or small groups to solve reasoning challenges to escape a snowstorm!
Winter Escape Room 5th Grade Fraction Review Addition, Subtraction and Different Fractions Snow
Author: Easy Education – Reagan Briggs
Grade: 4th-6th grade
Standard: CCSS 5.NF.A.1, A.2
This winter escape room is an engaging review of adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. All clues are self-checking and require no locks or boxes. Just print, cut and go.
Winter Math Activities | Winter Math Puzzles | Winter Escape Rooms
Study under my wings
Grade: 4th-6th grade
Standard: CCSS 5.NBT.A.3, A.3b, A.4
Students shake a damn, dusty snowball in their grandmother’s attic, only to find themselves trapped inside. To successfully escape, the team will need to use good communication, logic, attention to detail, and trustworthy math skills.
4 Winter Escape Rooms for Middle School and High School Students
Winter escape rooms designed for middle school students are more immersive than those designed for younger students. You can incorporate book escape room ideas, social studies timeline challenges, middle school science experiments, Spanish matching games, or even complex riddles for high school.
Winter Digital Escape Room
by 2peasandadog
Grade: 6-8
Standard: CCSS CCRA.SL.2, SL.6
Help your students beat the cold weather blues with this digital winter escape room. Students solve 10 hot chocolate-themed challenges independently or with classmates to escape the locked cafeteria supply cabinet.
Winter Themed Human Body System Christmas Digital Escape Room
avery science
Grade: Grade 6-9
Standard: NGSS MS-LS1-3
You can’t beat this digital, no-prep, winter-themed human body system escape room! It challenges students to use their knowledge of body systems and how they work together to solve four puzzle locks. Students will decipher the lock code four questions at a time to progress through the escape room.
Spanish ser and adjective winter snowman digital escape room
Author: Mastra in the Middle
Grade: 6-10
This digital escape room is great for practicing Spanish descriptive vocabulary. Manuel Niev Museum Having lost his nose, your student will be tasked with finding who took his carrot nose before he melts!
Geometry Transformation Winter Escape Room Activity: Digital Holiday Resource
Towards mastery
Grade: Grade 8-12
Standard: CCSS 8.GA1, A.3; HSG-SRT.A.1
Want to have a little fun while challenging your students? This digital breakthrough is designed to review transformations and allow students to practice translation, reflection, rotation, and expansion.
Tips for creating a winter escape room in school
Setting up your own winter-themed escape room doesn’t have to be time-consuming or overly complicated. You can use basic escape room ideas to create small challenges that lead to big wins.
- Use a winter writing prompt to have your students create a seasonal storyline that can be used in an escape room.
- Use existing winter classroom decorations to tell an escape room storyline.
- Combine regular puzzles with winter challenges, such as dressing up a team member as a snowman while completing a 25-piece puzzle.
- If you can, take some puzzles and challenges outside so students can really escape the cold. This eliminates the need for props and decorations.
- Ask your art teacher and preschool teacher to borrow some winter decorations and teaching aids they may have on hand.
- As part of a larger project, have your students create winter-themed challenges and then compile them into a complete escape room.
Beat winter in the classroom with TPT
Unlike winter, there is no end to winter escape room ideas! These fun and engaging activities blend teamwork, critical thinking skills, and creativity to celebrate this snow season.
