Apparently, for the past two years around July 15ish, we have Avery over for a sleepover. Ellie likes to create themes for these sleepovers. Last year, was a camp theme. This year, she found out Avery was reading Harry Potter and went all out with the Harry Potter theme – quotes on her closet door, newspapers clippings from the internet on her wall, signs with the different houses hanging up, and a whole “Welcome to Harry Potter land” type tour/scavenger hunt when Avery got here. Madison was a part of the tour and activities by being various characters from the books at each place.
In addition, Madison found an escape room on Pinterest that seemed do-able. She looked it over, tweaked some things, and started designing the components that went with it.
The components of the potion they made. The labels are hard to see, but there are pretty exotic ingredients: crushed dragonfly wings, alpaca fluff, sloth urine, octopus ink, platypus eggs, unicorn milk, squid eggs, moonwort slime, etc.
Here are some fun pictures of the escape room. The beginning…
The coin challenge – Madison made this one up completely. There was a mix of coins from various countries. They had to find 5 US quarters and figure out that the first letter of each state when put in order spelled, MAGIC. Pretty cool.
There was key hidden in the drawers of this jewelry box.
There were dragon eggs that Madison made out of clay and Easter eggs to match the designs in the spell book the website had made available. They had to match the design to the egg, find the corresponding letter, and then unscramble it to spell SQUID.
This challenge involved drinking enough out of the bottle to reveal a hidden code on the backside of the label that would unlock Madison’s phone and reveal a clue!
They escaped these and two other challenges in 1 hours and 5 minutes!
To get the most bang for the buck out of the escape room, we invited Grandma and Grandpa Ediger and Lilli to come try it. They made it out in 59 minutes.
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