April Fool’s Day Team Building Digital Escape Room Breakout Game

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Looking for a fun way to celebrate April Fool’s Day? Try this hilarious April Fool’s Day themed Digital Escape Room that includes 5 digital challenges consisting of wacky riddles, online puzzles, mysterious codes to solve, and even a digital prank for the students at the end!

Unlike other escape rooms or breakouts, this one is 100% digital- simply provide a link to your students and they are ready to begin in minutes!

This resource includes:

✔️A link to a pre-coded Google Form™ with four engaging, interactive challenges and puzzles to solve revolving around April Fool’s Day and pranks

✔️A pdf with introduction, setup instructions, and tips to differentiate

✔️ Recording sheet for students as they work through the activity

✔️ Answer key for all of the digital activities

✔️ Fun, themed certificates of completion for student bragging rights

*fabulous for post-activity team picture props!

Also includes: Five digital “locks” for students to solve

• Lock 1: Students learn about the history and interesting facts behind April Fool’s Day and answer questions

• Lock 2: Students unscramble hilarious jokes

• Lock 3: Students must decode their teacher’s text messages to the sub

• Lock 4: Students are given a fun online jigsaw puzzle to solve

• Lock 5: Students answer questions from a fake newspaper article

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️For the Love said, “This was the BEST activity for April Fool’s Day! I’d never done a break out room, but this one was easy and SO much fun! This was perfect for my regular and GT students! I HIGHLY recommend!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Sarah C. said, “I’m not sure who had more fun with this. Them completing the tasks or me watching them and trying not to crack up! This was so much fun”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Holly W. said, “This resource was a successful way to “prank” my students on April 1st.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Lisa T. said, “My students loved this activity. It was engaging and fun to do. I will be using this again next year!”

⚠️ This interactive escape room requires technology. Students will need a Google™ account to access the Google Form™, and students will need school access to the website JigsawPlanet.com to access an online jigsaw puzzle located within the form. You may need to add JigsawPlanet.com to your school’s list of approved websites.

The Escape Room back story:

Oh no! Your favorite teacher, Mrs. Chamberlain, is out sick on her favorite day– April Fool’s Day! Even though she can’t be there in person, she loves the holiday so much that she decided to leave little pranks in each of your five assignments for the day. See if you can outsmart her tricks and pranks by completing each assignment. Good luck!

This escape room is designed for approximately grades 5-8th students to complete within a 45 minute class period.