Breakout Activities on a Budget
Breakout Activities on a Budget I was SO excited when I received my first Breakout kit through the mail. I could not wait to try it out with the students. I created the Haunted Castle Breakout activity that you might have seen on the website already. However, I soon realized that the group sizes were a little too large for everybody to enjoy the activity equally. Most students are engaged throughout the activity but unfortunately, they don’t get to try out all the puzzles. Sometimes students even end up arguing, as they all want to use the UV flashlight. That’s when I decided to have students solve the puzzles in teams of 4 instead. This way, everyone would get to witness all the puzzles. However, realistically, I couldn’t get one Breakout box per team and I therefore decided to print out slips of paper with an image of each lock instead. As you might have guessed by now, the box quickly became obsolete. It made me think... Our main objective is for the kids to interact orally wh...