Looking for an exciting way to keep students engaged during December while still reinforcing important grammar and vocabulary skills? This printable Christmas Escape Room activity is the perfect blend of festive fun and meaningful practice for ESL, ELL, and EFL classrooms. Designed with young learners in mind, it requires no complicated locks or codes. Instead, students work step by step to solve literacy challenges that review Christmas vocabulary, text comprehension, sentence building, and parts of speech. Each solved task earns a teacher signature, “unlocking” the next challenge until the mystery of Santa’s missing sleigh is finally solved!
What Students Will Do:
- Vocabulary Race: Create as many words as possible from “MERRY CHRISTMAS.”
- Christmas Word Search: Practice holiday vocabulary recognition.
- What Am I? Inferencing and Christmas word matching game.
- Sentence Building: Use “who, what, when, where” to construct sentences.
- Parts of Speech: Identify and color nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions.
- Christmas Crossword: Solve with provided hints.
- Postcard from Santa: Read and answer comprehension questions.
What’s Included:
- 7 fun, low-prep tasks
- Teacher answer key
- Student lock sheet
- Location cards & hint cards
- Printable prizes (bookmarks & homework passes)
- Step-by-step instructions
- Both color and B/W options for easy printing
This Christmas Escape Room for ESL is perfect for whole-class participation, small groups, or holiday parties where you want to mix fun with learning. It helps students strengthen vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension skills while working cooperatively to solve a festive mystery.
Pair this escape activity with our Christmas Vocabulary Games Bundle for even more interactive holiday learning fun!