How to run an Escape Room
Light on a Dark Night By Anna Price
Publicity invite: ‘Enter via the Twillight Escape Rooms to find how to reach Light on a Dark Night’
The concept: Below are our team notes for a walk through experience for Halloween (2023). People can pass through between 5-6.30pm on 31st October (open 4.45-5pm for the neurodiverse etc).
Enable guests to learn John 14:6 through symbols and escape room clues and activities. By learning this verse about Jesus they can move from the darkness into light.
For further information or questions about how to run this, contact anna.price@stmmgorleston.org.uk
Entrance way:
“No one comes to the Father, except through me……Jesus said: I am 3 things: What are they? Discover them and you’ll get access to the Light Zone.” Spooky voice repeated on voice recorder……
Speaker
Smoke machines
Sign: “No one comes to the Father, except through me……”
THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
Almost pitch black (with only small lights where absolutely needed in the escape rooms). Smoke machines and a gently spooky feel :)
GAZEBO ONE - WAY
Outline:
Clues in position to discover the word are:
- old-fashioned scales
- hay and a sign with an ear saying the word you are looking for sounds like hay
Additional clues to pass in or reveal:
- map
- one way sign
-three spaces on print outs, some with a letter added (for the letters WAY)
(We will also have printouts to give to the kids a clue how many letters there are in this word, with possibly one letter revealed to them.
Person overseeing to welcome, explain and feed in extra clues as needed.
2. GAZEBO TWO - TRUTH
Outline:
Clues in position
We will have 3 statements written with disappearing ink pens and kids will have to shine the light from the pen to read them.
We will have 2 false statements and 1 truthful one, with a square tick box (to indicate tick or cross, true or false).
The 3 statements are:
a) Nearest school is Herman
b) Our Vicar’s name is Gertrude
c) Jesus loves you
Additional clues to pass in or reveal:
Sounds like sign and a Tooth ?
Person overseeing to welcome, explain and feed in extra clues as needed.
3. GAZEBO THREE - LIFE
Outline:
Clues in position:
- skull
- baby in the manger
- dead flowers
Additional clues to pass in or reveal:
- heartbeat noise on the speaker
- sound of a baby crying
-connection of sounds to a speaker/gadget to be pressed by the monitor
life sign outside the gazebo (lit up with a remote control or a plug)
Person overseeing and monitor, to press the sounds occasionally and turn on the life sign.
BALL PIT :
We will also have BALL PIT with balls saying way, truth and life. We will use a glow in the dark tape and write those words on the balls
A Tin Bath
Skeleton in bath
Sign: Jesus said ‘I am…’ three things: What are they?
People needed: to monitor getting balls back into the bath and give guidance.
The Cross:
The 3 balls are given to an angel who gives them a fairy light. Someone (the minister?) congratulations them, and directs them to put light on the cross and go into the Light Zone.
Balls then transported back to the ball pit
The Tunnel: experiment with a white cloth ceiling.
THE LIGHT ZONE:
Fairy lights, and wonderful things! A place of light relief and somewhere to hang about in the warm before heading outside again.
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life rice cakes - craft
Lantern bags craft
Hot dogs, Hot choc, tea, coffee and squash
Ordering of food and drink
Other:
Ordering black bin bags/sheeting to black out the gazebos -
Jobs on the day:
Set up gazebos:
Light zone set up:
Tunnel set up (not vital):
Manning/greeting entrance:
Guiding groups:
Manning gazebos on the day:
Ball pit on the day:
Angel:
Returning balls to ball pit from angel:
Crafts:
Refreshments:
Front of house:
Food: