How to Plan a Treasure Hunt Adventure
You can keep your children occupied with a treasure hunt adventure during the summer. Children have fun and learn while they hunt for clues to the prizes you provide, according to Families With Purpose. Plan creatively and include your children's friends for group hunts. Small prizes are just as effective as large prizes. The hunt is what matters to the children. You can plan treasure hunts to suit your child's age and interests.
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Instructions
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Choose the number of days for your treasure hunt adventure. Young children, such as preschoolers, are best suited for one-day adventures. Older children will enjoy hunts lasting several weeks.
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Pick familiar and safe locations, such as a friend's home, playground and backyard sandbox to place your clues. Choose more difficult hiding places, such as under a doormat, under a bush or taped to a basketball hoop for older children. Consider hiding clues for your children to find when you visit the park or a relative's home. Creative Kids at Home says the ideal number of clues equals the age of your child. Provide eight clues for an 8-year-old.
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Create your clues. Incorporate your child's interests into the clues. Make them educational for added benefit. Clues can be photographs of the next clue, or prize locations for youngsters who don't know how to read yet. For older children, clues can be zoomed-in photographs, rhyming riddles, word searches and crossword puzzles. The answer to the word problems is the location of the next clue or prize. Also, consider mailing clues to your children.
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Space out the clues over several days if you are planning a treasure hunt adventure that will last several weeks. To keep children guessing, don't tell them when the next clue is coming.
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Tips & Warnings
Provide three to four clues per week for older children going through a treasure hunt that will last several weeks.
Add even more interest by using pirate-theme paper, or paper with a printed treasure chest on the back and rolled up like a scroll.
Small prizes can include candy, books, small toys and ice cream certificates.
For added security, go with your kids to look for the clues.
References
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