Christmas Escape Room Activity - The Reindeer Games Holiday Breakout Challenge

Christmas Escape Room Activity - The Reindeer Games Holiday Breakout Challenge - Use this Christmas escape room-style activity to help foster classroom community and improve team-building and problem-solving skills during the holiday season. Students love the challenge of an escape room and this is perfect to use that last week before the holidays when students have lots of energy. It can be used in English class as it incorporates some ELA skills, but can also easily work for any other subject!

The best part is that your purchase comes with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the reindeer games and tells the back story to hook students in!

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How The Reindeer Games Christmas Escape Room Works:

• Students watch a video that introduces the reindeer games back story. Then, students receive a letter inviting them to the annual Reindeer Games in the North Pole.

• They will compete in physical, problem-solving, and linguistic skills challenges. This is not just a competition, it is also a job interview; the winning group gets to be the next team of reindeer trainers! Because Santa is such a grammar nerd, students will also have to complete some ELA-related tasks to win. Students should have a basic understanding of parts of speech as well as figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, pun, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, idiom).

• Students use a response booklet to record their answers to the puzzles/riddles as they circulate the room to different stations.

Included In The Reindeer Games Christmas Escape Room:

➡️ Hand-Drawn Introductory Video: Students watch this eye-catching video by John Spencer as a fun and engaging way to introduce students to this spirited Christmas reindeer games activity.

➡️ Detailed Teacher Instructions: Feel totally confident setting up and implementing this activity in your classroom with these detailed teacher instructions.

➡️ Station Signs: Make each station easy to spot so students have no issues progressing through the escape room.

➡️ Station Instructions For Students: For each of the six stations, students can use these easy-to-follow instructions so they know exactly what to do to solve the puzzle or riddle.

➡️ All The Station Materials: This is everything students will need to complete their reindeer game stations. Including mazes, rebus puzzle cards, figurative language strips, parts of speech cards, riddles, student instruction cards, envelopes, station markers and much more!

➡️ Student Answer Booklet: Each group will have a booklet where the group can record their answers as they progress through each of the stations.

➡️ Teacher Answer Key: Use the answer keys to easily check student work and review after the activity is completed.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Reindeer Games Christmas Escape Room:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students LOVED this Christmas Escape Room! The ending was the best. Getting middle schoolers to laugh is a feat in and of itself! Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This lesson was wonderful. An excellent way to finish up the semester before the holiday break. My students were completely engaged and had fun. Love, Love, Love this lesson!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a great escape room! I've used it for a few years now and the kids really love it. I've moved down to junior and I think I might be too challenging for them. Definitely will save and use again if possible.

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