Santa’s Magic Keys Christmas Escape Room
Engage, Challenge, and Celebrate: A Festive Escape Room for Young Learners
As the festive season draws near, now is the perfect time to immerse your young learners in a classroom adventure that’s joyful, purposeful, and curriculum-aligned. My Christmas Escape Room – Santa’s Magic Keys combines literacy and math challenges with festive fun, giving your students an exciting end-of-year experience while keeping them learning.
Why your kids will love it
Imagine your students working together to solve four fun, festive tasks to help Santa recover his lost magic keys. With hands-on problem-solving, puzzles, and challenges that cover early years literacy and numeracy, every child can participate and feel successful. Kids will be engaged in reading, decoding, counting, and more, all within a magical Christmas storyline that keeps them motivated from start to finish.
Why you’ll love it (and your planning time will thank you!)
As a teacher who values efficiency, you’ll appreciate how low-prep this resource is. Print-and-go instructions, ready-to-use worksheets, and digital slides mean you can set up in minutes and focus on guiding your students through the adventure. The tasks are differentiated, so every learner can participate and be challenged at an appropriate level, making your life easier while keeping learning meaningful.
Curriculum-aligned and skill-building
This escape room covers key early years skills:
- Literacy: decoding, sentence structure, reading
- Numeracy: counting, problem-solving, addition & subtraction
- Collaboration: teamwork, critical thinking, and communication
It’s ideal for end-of-year lessons, rotations, or small group challenges, keeping students engaged and productive even as excitement builds toward the holidays.
How it works in your classroom
- Introduce the storyline using the teacher slides: Santa has lost his magic keys, and it’s up to the students to help him.
- Guide students through four festive tasks, each revealing a key. Tasks include math challenges, and crack the code puzzle activities.
- Encourage teamwork and discussion, letting students solve problems together and share strategies.
- Once all tasks are complete, students celebrate unlocking Santa’s magic keys and saving Christmas!
End-of-year bonus
This escape room is the perfect blend of fun and purposeful learning. It keeps students motivated, engaged, and learning while freeing you up for other end-of-year activities, classroom celebrations, or reporting tasks. With Santa’s Magic Keys, the term ends on a high note - fun, festive, and educational.
