Gratitude Thanksgiving Escape Room Lesson: Grateful Scarecrow Shows Kindness

Make learning about gratitude and acts of kindness fun this Thanksgiving with Sloppy Joe the Scarecrow's Grateful ESCAPE Room Lesson! Help Sloppy Joe the Scarecrow earn leaves as he learns how to be more thankful, thoughtful, and kind. Your students will love this engaging and interactive Escape Room activity.

Students will work in teams to solve 5 puzzles as Sloppy Joe the Scarecrow seeks advice from other animals in the field. The puzzles include using a Sunflower Solver, sorting Grateful and Ungrateful scenarios, discovering what Sloppy Joe the Scarecrow appreciates in the corn maze, and solving clues on his Kindness Calendar.

With each puzzle solved students will earn a leaf for the final puzzle and learn a valuable lesson about gratitude and kindness. Once Sloppy Joe has escaped the cornfield, students will receive Kindness Coupons, Gratitude Grams, or Kindness Quotes to color and give to others. Additionally, students can create their own Kindness Calendar as part of this engaging activity or participate in making a Gratitude Tree Bulletin Board.

Key Features and Benefits

• Interactive Escape Room: Engages students so that they remain excited and motivated.
• Gratitude and Kindness Lessons: Teaches valuable life skills so that students learn to appreciate and show gratitude.
• Easy-to-Follow Instructions: Simplifies implementation so that you can spend more time teaching and less time prepping.
• Extension Activities: Includes additional tasks so that students can further explore and practice gratitude and kindness.

***This Escape Room Lesson does require some prep work of printing, cutting, and assembling the team puzzle packets, but it is well worth seeing your students working together to accomplish their escape!!! Plus, the prep work and assembly are done only once. Use this escape room lesson year after year!

What is included in this Creative Counseling Resource:

•Lesson Plan with ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors - 5 pages

•Lesson Prep with Directions - 2 pages

•Story Introduction - 1 page

•Puzzle 1 - 2 pages

•Puzzle 2 - 5 pages

•Puzzle 3 - 2 pages

•Puzzle 4: - 2 pages

•Final Puzzle - 1 page

•Gratitude Tree Leaves - 5 pages

•Kindness Coupon Bracelets/Bookmarks - 1 page

•Gratitude Grams Bracelets/Bookmarks - 1 page

•Kindness Quotes Bracelets/Bookmarks - 1 page

•Create your own Kindness Calendar- 1 page

Puzzle Solution – 10 pages

•PowerPoint Slideshow - 18 slides