How to Create an Escape Room TpT Product

An escape room is a fun, creative way to practice a skill and expose your students to critical thinking skills. Plus, it can be a great selling resource in your TpT Store.

What Makes it a Great Resource for Your TpT Store

Besides being a fun way for teachers to practice academic skills in the classroom, it is time consuming and cumbersome to create, especially if you’ve never done it before. This makes it a great resource for you, the TpT Seller, to add to your library.

Why Sell Escape Rooms on TpT?

Escape rooms have grown in popularity because they bring learning to life in an interactive and immersive way. Here’s why you should consider adding them to your TpT store:

High Engagement – Students love the challenge and teamwork involved in solving puzzles and unlocking clues.
Versatile – Escape rooms can be used in nearly any subject, making them highly adaptable to different grade levels and topics.
Higher Price Point – Because of their interactive nature and extensive prep, escape rooms typically sell for a higher price than standard worksheets.
Evergreen Product – Unlike seasonal resources, most escape rooms can be used year-round, ensuring consistent sales.
Great for Digital and Print Classrooms – Whether teachers want a hands-on experience or a digital option for distance learning, escape rooms can be formatted to fit both needs.

But Isn’t Creating an Escape Room Complicated?

It can be—but it doesn’t have to be! While building an escape room from scratch can feel overwhelming, especially if you haven’t done one before. But don’t stress. I’m going to walk you through the gist of how to create one on your own, so you can add this excellent resource to your TpT library and start making more money.

Or, I’ve made it easy with my Escape Room Template. This template provides everything you need to quickly and easily create engaging escape rooms without starting from zero.

With my template, you can:

Save hours of work by using pre-designed puzzles and layouts.
Customize the clues, and challenges to fit your subject area.
Offer teachers a high-quality, ready-to-use resource that their students will love!
Plus it comes with a theme to make it more interactive and engaging

How An Escape Room Works in the Classroom

In a classroom escape room activity, the students must answer a series of questions. These questions should be related to the skill being taught in the class. Those answers are used to open a lock. The students must open several locks to escape!

I like to integrate a puzzle that students must solve to convert their answers to the questions into a lock combination. This keeps the escape room fun and engaging, while still having a good amount of academic review.

How to Make the Answers to the Questions Equate to the Lock Combination

One way to make the questions a solution to the lock is to use multiple choice questions. By doing so, after answering three or four questions correlated to one lock, the students should have a four-character combination (ABCD or CDBB or DABC, etc).

Then, set up a cypher or a puzzle that students solve after having answered all of the questions. In the image above, students are giving a cypher, connecting each hyrogpligh to an English letter. By correctly translating the word, they know what number corresponds to A, B, C, and D. Then, if they answered the questions correctly, they will have the combination, which they enter into the lock to open.

Extra Fun

For an extra element of excitement, purchase actual locks (https://amzn.to/4bSuE89) that students have to enter the codes into.

Premade Escape Room Template

To make your creation process easy and accurate, plus to ensure you’ve got fun, engaging puzzles and a premade self check Google Form for your students, I’ve done all the work for you by making this Escape Room Tempalte that you can quickly edit for your TpT Store.

All you need to do is edit the questions to customize it for your class and skill, and publish it.