Catch an Elf 3rd Grade Math Review Escape Room Christmas Holiday Activity Game

❄️ This Catch an Elf 3rd Grade Math Review Christmas Holiday Escape Room is the perfect activity for engaging and effective math practice this holiday season. In this printable and digital math resource, students help Santa save Christmas by tracking down a missing elf. Students practice standard based math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, word problems, area, perimeter, shapes, and geometry. Custom videos tell the story along the way, making this printable and digital resource an engaging and immersive holiday activity.

“Santa needs every elf back in the workshop, but where could the last one be? If you want to catch an elf, you’ll have to think like an elf. Can you track down the rogue elf and save Christmas?”

⚷ Students will complete four challenges as they work toward catching the missing elf. Each challenge contains a series of math questions. Answering each question will unlock part of a secret code that helps students complete each challenge.

This activity can be used in any classroom to practice the following math skills:

✅ Fluently Add and Subtract within 1000

✅ Use Addition and Subtraction to Solve Word Problems

✅ Using Fact Families to Understand Multiplication and Division

✅ Fluently Multiply and Divide within 100

✅ Use Multiplication and Division to Solve Word Problems

✅ Finding Perimeter and Area

✅ Solving Real World Problems involving Perimeters and Area

✅ Decomposing Figures and Adding Areas of Non-Overlapping Rectangles

✅ Categorizing Shapes and Attributes

✅ Recognize Shared Attributes across Categories

⚡ This Christmas holiday math escape room is available in a variety of printable and digital formats, so it’s perfect for any classroom!

• Webscape™ Format – This web-based format provides the most interactive and immersive experience possible. It is self-directed, self-correcting, and contains audio. CLICK HERE to try it for yourself! You won’t believe how engaging this format is until you try it!

• Google Format – Students complete the exercises in Google Slides. The Holiday Decoding Tool is a Google Sheet that self-corrects and tells each student when they can continue to the next challenge.

• Printable Format – Students can use any device to scan QR codes to watch the videos. If no device is available, students can skip the videos and still enjoy the exercise. Students use a printable Factory Decoding Tool and answer sheet to decipher the clues and track their answers.

☃️ Integrated videos, thematic items, and a fun Christmas elf backstory engage students while developing and reviewing 3rd grade math skills.

*Please note: The Google Slides format includes embedded videos that are hosted via YouTube. The printable version includes QR codes for these videos. If you plan on using the Google or printable formats, please ensure you and your students have access to YouTube. The Webscape version does not require YouTube.

Key Features:

✏️ Digital & Printable Versions – Webscape, Google, and print versions make this resource perfect for any classroom. The digital version can be used dynamically in the classroom as a presentation while students complete each mathematical question in groups or individually.

✏️ Immersive Experience: Dynamic challenges and engaging videos provide positive reinforcement and keep students engaged and focused.

✏️Skill Focused: Each question set was chosen and written to focus on key skills to review important mathematics skills.

✏️Scaffolded Challenges: Challenges increase in difficulty as students progress through the escape room.

✏️No Prep/ Low Prep: The Digital version requires NO PREP. The printable version is low prep: Just print the pages, place them in folders, and go. The printable version has the option to incorporate technology and videos through QR codes.

What’s Included:

3rd Grade Catch and Elf Escape Room

• Print and Digital Directions
• Challenge #1: Solve the addition or subtraction problems to find the cookies.
• Challenge #2: Solve the multiplication or division problems to find the snow.
• Challenge #3: Solve the area and perimeter problems to find the sled.
• Challenge #4: Solve the shapes problems to find the fireplace.
• Catch an Elf Escape Room Certificate
• Ooops Cards
• Recording Brochure
• Answer Key

Digital Version Links

• Google Slides Link for Digital Escape Room
• Google Forms Link for Decoding Tool
• Webscape Link

Please Note: This escape room is similar to the 2nd, 4th, & 5th grade but with questions on a 3rd grade level.

The Webscape and Google slides versions are self-grading; however, these versions are created to require critical thinking. Students are NOT told which answers are incorrect to prevent guessing and encourage students to think critically about the clues and their responses.