Escape Room Overview – Room Codes
Escape Room 1: Escape Room 2:
Carving the Perfect Pumpkin The Corn Maze
Chronological Order – RL5 Reading Comprehension – RI1/L4
6-Letter Code: all lower case letters 5-Letter Code: all lower case letters
i w t a n y b a d c d
Escape Room 3: Escape Room 4:
Riddle Me This The House on the Corner
Decoding Activity Plot Structure – RL3
8-Letter Code: all lower case letters 6-Digit Code
t r f o x n u i 5 9 8 2 3 4
Escape Room 5: 5-Digit Code
Piecing It Together
8 1 6 9 2
Puzzle Activity © The Sparkly Notebook
Carving the Perfect Pumpkin– Order & Sequence
Read the text in the boxes in the margins, and place them in the correct order.
Your 6-digit code will be the first letter of each box in order.
It’s the time of year to carve pumpkins, and you want to make sure you have the best strategies in
place so you can win all the pumpkin carving competitions you enter.
When carving the perfect pumpkin, there are multiple steps you should take to assure it turns out just
how you’d like it. Step one is to choose the perfect pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. You want it to be be
on that is an appropriate size, blemish free, and the right size and shape you like most.
There are certain tools you will need in order to carve the perfect pumpkin. Of course, you’ll need your
pumpkin. Next, you’ll need a knife, spoon, and a marker or design to create an outline. Start by cutting
large hole in the bottom of the pumpkin. Most often you will find that people cut a hole in the top. By
cutting a hole in the bottom, the pumpkin will not fall in on itself and will hold it’s shape longer.
After you have cut a large enough hole, you can begin to remove the seeds and gunk inside of the
pumpkin. Using the spoon, you can scrape any bits and remaining pieces from the walls of the pumpkin.
Ensuring that the insides of the pumpkin are clean will give a better presentation.
Now you can use the marker to outline your design. Using a stencil or drawing by freehand will let you
alter the design as you go. By drawing your design before you cut, you are less like to make a mistake that
could ruin your final product.
You are now ready to carve your pumpkin! Use a fine tooth saw or small knife to cut around your
design. The small knife will give you more precision when carving the pumpkin. After finishing your cuts,
clean up around the edges to give a better presentation. Make sure you are careful when using these
tools. You are now ready to display your pumpkin! Add a candle light to the base to back light your design
for added effect. © The Sparkly Notebook
The Corn Maze – Reading Comprehension
Answer the following
1. What does the word puerile mean in paragraph 1? questions. Your code will be
a. It means fun and exciting
b. It means childishly silly and trivial
the answers in order.
c. It means boring and dull
d. It means clean and pure
2. Which of the following is a synonym for disconcerting in paragraph 2?
a. eerie
b. unconcerned
c. distant
d. bored
3. Which of the following BEST describes the narrator at the end of the story?
a. She is scared and never wants to return to the festival again.
b. She is upset that she wasted her night by going to the childish festival.
c. She is mad at the boy who played a trick on her.
d. She is happy with how the night turned out despite her doubts about the festival.
4. Which evidence from the text BEST supports the answer above?
a. There were kids running around everywhere, the games were puerile, and the corn maze looked just as kiddy as the
games.
b. My heart was pounding as I heard an eerie laughter coming from within the corn field.
c. It turned out to be a fun night after all. My doubts about the corn maze were wrong, and I felt bad for ever thinking it
would be lame.
d. I gave a quick laugh and told him I would get him back. “Revenge will be mine!” I snickered.
5. What figurative language is shown in the sentence below?
“We started to run as quickly as we could down the paths within the corn stalks, but the laughter
seemed to be following us.”
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
d. Personification
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Riddle Me This – Decoding Activity
Use the decoder in the margin to help answer the riddle.
Why don’t mummies take
vacations?
They’re afraid to relax
and unwind
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The House on the Corner – Plot Structure
After reading the story, match the elements from “Finding the End of the Rainbow” by
dragging them to where they belong. Use the decoder on the side to get your code.
Follow the order of the arrows to get your 6-digit code.
Decoder The family freaked out and started
9 yelling at the sight of the ghost.
8 Jasper knew he’d never have a
☼ ☽ friend because of being a ghost and
2 ♘ ♘ everyone being afraid of him.
♤ 4
♕ ☆
k
Climax
5
3 Rising
action w Falling
Action
e
Jasper broke the rules and showed Jasper tried to explain to the
his presence when a family was family that they were nice
c
touring the house and considering ghosts who liked to play
purchasing the home. ☽ school and enjoy their own
family time. He promised they
wouldn’t be scary. ☆
li ct
Exposition nf Resolution
co
h
Jasper lived in a beautiful house Jasper loved playing with his The family decided to
on the corner of a lot, but no parents but was starting to purchase the house, and
one would ever go near it feel lonely and wished he Jasper finally had a friend to
had a friend to play with. ☼
because it was labeled as play school with. ♤
haunted. ♕
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8.
1.
Piece
2.
together the
puzzle using
the images
in the
margins. The
hidden code
will be the
numbers
going left to 6.
right.
9.
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