The Mystery of the Lost Recipe
An A1-level escape room for young learners featuring food-themed puzzles. Students solve riddles, unscramble words, match vocabulary, and complete sentences to discover the 5-letter master code.
A free Escape Room for Young learners at CEFR A1 level. Topic: food.
You are a young chef in a magical kitchen. A mysterious recipe has been hidden, and only by solving food puzzles can you discover the secret word that unlocks the kitchen door. Help the chef find the ingredients and solve the riddles to escape!
Solve all five puzzles to collect letters that spell the master code and unlock the kitchen door.
Puzzles
- 🍎 What Do We Eat?: Which one is a food we can eat?
- 🥕 Unscramble the Vegetable: Unscramble this word: ROCCAR
- 🍕 Match the Food Words: Match each food to its picture description.
- 🍽️ Put the Words in Order: like I eat rice
- 🥛 Read and Answer: Read the passage. Then say if each sentence is true or false.
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 Support 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.
- 🍎 What Do We Eat? Which one is a food we can eat? a) book b) pencil c) chair d) apple
- 🥕 Unscramble the Vegetable Unscramble this word: ROCCAR R A C O R T
- 🍕 Match the Food Words Match each food to its picture description. bread milk egg banana a yellow fruit, it is long and soft a white drink from a cow, it is cold a yellow food made from wheat, you eat it at breakfast a white and yellow food, chickens make it