The Pumpkin Fair Mix-Up, in twenty-one seconds.
A printable Halloween escape room for kids aged 6 to 10, for 2 to 8 players. Big Marigold, the biggest pumpkin at the fair, is gone with her red wagon, and seven fair games in a chain lead to her. The film shows the warm up puzzle and does not tell where she is.
Sound starts only after you tap. It pauses when you scroll away.
What the film shows.
- A red wagon carries cards from the kit: Olive’s coded note in front and three folded cards behind it. A tag on the handle asks: Where is Big Marigold? The title: The Pumpkin Fair Mix-Up. A printable Halloween escape room for kids, ages 6 to 10, 2 to 8 players.
- The wagon rolls away. Farmer Juniper the hedgehog and Olive the Owl look at the wheel tracks: the prize pumpkin has gone missing.
- Seven fair games from the kit land on the table: Olive’s coded note and six folded cards with an acorn, a basket, a leaf, a mitten, a pear and a pinecone. Chain links join them.
- Olive’s coded note: a kite, a heart and a cloud, and the code key. The warm up printed in the kit is solved one picture at a time: kite is O, heart is W, cloud is L, so the word is OWL.
- Olive’s Answer Board with the answers hidden. A row with an acorn is circled, and the folded Acorn card opens: every answer opens the next card.
- A Fair Helper badge and an Official Fair Helper certificate with a blue ribbon.
- The red wagon rolls back in with the cards, and the tag asks again: Where is Big Marigold? The Pumpkin Fair Mix-Up. 6.90 € at arling.sk/shop.
The characters, the wagon, the card pictures and the code pictures are the drawings printed in the kit; the cards, the badge and the certificate are simplified. The only answer shown is the warm up word OWL, which the kit itself prints as an example on the coded note. The answers on the Answer Board are hidden, and where Big Marigold is stays a secret.
About the escape room.
The Pumpkin Fair Mix-Up is a friendly, not spooky escape room for children aged 6 to 10 and 2 to 8 players: pumpkins, pies, paper lanterns and a costume parade. The children play 7 fair games in a chain and check each answer on Olive’s Answer Board, so you do not need to know the answers. Two PDF files, A4 and US Letter, 16 pages each: the story, the cards, hints to read aloud, a plan for grown-ups, badges, certificates and full solutions. It costs 6.90 €, one payment. We estimate 30 to 45 minutes of play; nobody has played it yet.
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How the film is made.
There is no video file on this page. Every frame is drawn on a canvas by a small script, using the characters and pictures printed in the kit, and every sound is synthesised by Web Audio in your browser after you tap. No photo, no recording, no picture generator. The same script renders the film frame by frame into a video for YouTube and Instagram.
It is built to be light: what does not move is drawn once and reused, the film stops when it ends, when you scroll away or switch tabs, and it shows a still picture if your device asks for reduced motion. Questions: andrej@arling.sk.
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