Digital Escape Rooms - the Holy Grail

Image by Clockedin dk from Pixabay

Looking for ready-made escape rooms for youth, teens and families developed by libraries all over the country on just about any theme you can imagine? Then please look no further.  As one librarian who saw this doc exclaimed: "This is the Holy Grail of escape rooms!!" 

The curators of this multi-page, multi-link-to-escape-rooms write:

"These Digital Escape Rooms and other activities are compiled here by Sun Prairie (WI) Public Library Youth Services Librarian, Sammy Nieman, The County Library (Salt Lake) Adult Services Librarian, Ellen Thayn, and Mooresville Public Library Teen Librarian, but the activities themselves have been made by librarians from all over. If you truly enjoyed one, please consider reaching out to the library, if they provided their information, to thank them. Please feel free to share this document with all (patrons, friends, families). We have done our best to ensure we have the permission from the library/creator before sharing the activity."

Check out (and bookmark!!!) this google doc and discover your Holy Grail!!

[Updated 5/29/20]

And for more resources on escape rooms and how to build them, check out Escape Rooms Virtually - Not Just fro Teens and Adults blog post published  5/28/20 on the ALSC blog

Virtual & Offline Programming YSS blog COVID-19 series:

• Innovative Solutions for Connecting with Kids During COVID 10/25/21
• Virtual Teen Escape Room Book Club  10/22/21
• Making Digital Escape Rooms   11/23/20
• How to be a Better Video Presenter  11/2/20
• Storytime on the Road!   10/15/20
• How to Do Halloween During COVID-19  9/28/20
• Recharging Your “To-Go” Services  9/9/20
• Youth Services Program Palooza webinar 6/8/20
• Digital Escape Rooms – the Holy Grail  5/26/20
• Virtual and Offline Programs for Summer and Beyond  5/6/20 (combines & updates 6 previous resource post)
• “Grab-&-Go” Activity Kit Ideas  5/5/20
• Offline and Feeling Fine: Ideas for Programming Unvirtually  4/29/20
• Beyond E-Storytimes: Virtual Services and Programs for Youth 4/22/20
• Using Premier for Virtual Programming on Facebook 3/24/20