Math Treasure Hunt Escape Room Style Activity with 2D Shapes and Counting to 10

Looking for an immersive math experience for your students? Let the adventure begin as your students work on tracing, 2d shapes, counting to 10, and one-to-one correspondence.

Students become treasure hunters in this fun math activity – perfect for pretend play!

This Escape Room Style Activity is:

• great for language development and collaboration among students
• a fun way to incorporate pretend play and imagination into a math lesson
• hands-on and a great way to work on fine motor skills
• perfect for reviewing 2d shapes, counting to 10, and one-to-one correspondence

What’s Included:

• Maze with lines for tracing
• Maze without lines for an extra challenge (differentiation)
• 10 pirate ships with differently-shaped sails (shapes included are: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, oval, octagon, rhombus, trapezoid)
• 10 shapes with numbers to match to the pirate ships
• 10 islands with trees and a treasure chest
• 10 treasure chests 10 frames
• Pieces of the story on parchment to read to students before each section
• 3 concluding questions and a congratulations parchment
• Everything is in black and white and color (except the shapes with numbers on them – they are only in black and white)

How it Works:

• First, your students start by tracing a maze to map out how the ship can get to the treasure. This is great for developing fine motor skills.
• Then, they must match the shapes to the boats that have that shape of sail.
• Each of the shapes has a number that must be matched to a puzzle piece with an island with that many trees.
• From there, students must find and match the treasure chests with the same number of pieces of treasure, completing the puzzle.

⭐ This activity covers counting to 10, but can easily be differentiated by only using the pieces for counting to 5.

⭐ You can also hide pieces in sensory bins or around the room.

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