Check out this Awesome Christmas Themed Escape Room Activity

December 18, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

If you’re looking for a super fun classroom activity for the days before holiday break, you’re having a bunch of kids over for Christmas who you need to entertain, or you just want a cool family game night idea with a Christmas theme, you need to check out this awesome Christmas escape room from Hands on Teaching Ideas.

Now I’m going to say right up front that there is a lot of setup involved in this. You will probably need to buy some things like transparency paper, a lockable box and a recordable button. The printables that go with the escape room are also a paid item, but this person definitely deserves a little compensation for doing all the heavy lifting for us, and of course you can reuse it year after year.

The blog post at Hands on Teaching Ideas walks you through all the steps, starting with a secret message that becomes readable with the help of transparency paper. Participants will solve clues using Christmas songs, hunt for candy canes to find the code to open a lock box to put together a puzzle, use Christmas lights to break a code and use a magnet to find the final prize.

Even that sounds like a lot but there are more steps I didn’t mention, so you’ll see that this is a game that should keep players entertained for a while.

I’m so impressed by people who can come up with cool ideas like this and I wish I’d known about this one when my kiddo was little enough to enjoy it. But I really think older kids and adults would have fun with this one, too. If you give it a try for a holiday party or game night I’d love to hear bout how it went!

Check out the walkthrough of the game on Hands on Teaching Ideas, and you can grab the printables here.

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Make Unpoppable Bubbles You Can Play with Inside

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

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