The Feelings Fortress
A young-learner escape room where students practice emotion vocabulary through multiple-choice, odd-one-out, matching, scramble, and cipher puzzles.
A free Escape Room for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Emotions.
A grumpy dragon locked the Emotion Castle gates because nobody understood his feelings. To free the castle, young explorers must solve five feeling puzzles left by the castle wizard. Each puzzle holds a secret letter. Collect all five letters to unlock the golden gate and calm the dragon's heart.
Solve all 5 puzzles about emotions to collect letters and unlock the master code.
Puzzles
- 😊 The Happy Question: Which word means feeling very happy?
- 🎈 Find the Different Feeling: Three of these words feel good. One feels bad. Which one does not belong?
- 🧩 Match the Feeling: Match each emotion word to what happens when you feel it.
- 🔤 Unscramble the Feeling: Unscramble this word: xeicdte
- 🔐 The Secret Feeling Code: Decode the numbers using A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Z=26 to find an emotion word.
Printable worksheet
This Escape Room comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Core sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Write each answer.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Write each answer.
- 😊 The Happy Question Which word means feeling very happy? a) tired b) angry c) scared d) joyful
- 🎈 Find the Different Feeling Three of these words feel good. One feels bad. Which one does not belong? a) joyful b) cheerful c) happy d) sad
- 🧩 Match the Feeling Match each emotion word to what happens when you feel it. Happy Sad Angry Scared You smile and laugh. You feel afraid of something. You cry and feel down. You feel mad and want to shout.