Hunting for treasure... ....

when the girls were into blues clues I use to have the blues footprints an I would hid something an they would have find the footprint an figure out the clue to find what i hid

hi gemini rose! wow that is a really neat idea...well, i am still pregnant with our first child and come december, i am only 6 months on the way. but still that is a good idea of yours and i think we will do that when my baby is already 4 years old. that way, he can already appreciate it. way to go mom! you are very creative ...and thanks for the idea. i will surely keep it in mind and do it in the future. take care! :-) God bless you!

When mine were small we would visirt the farm up North. The town Moose Lake had a family day festival. I volunteered to run the scavenger hunt for a few years. The kids loved this especially sincce daddy was the boss. The top item hid was a roll of quarters. My son found that a couple years. There were gift certificates for local restaraunts and businesses as well hidden. I would write clues & hide items for a few days. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

[i]Hi gemini, wow...that is very cool! I know how much kids love it and even in our age, we can't stop laughing and being excited too! LOL! Anyway, haven't tried that in our family but you are giving me an idea! LOL! I guess I will do that to hubby this Christmas! LOL![/i]

That sounds like fun! My husband's parents used to do this at Easter. They would hide their Easter baskets! They wouldn't really leave clues, but the kids just knew they had to search for the baskets. One year for Valentine's day I led my husband on a treasure hunt. I made a bunch of little baggies full of candy with a note in each one that had a clue to where the next bag was. The last clue led to the gift. It was fun!

I am playing this game a bit differently with my kids. I am hiding something and when they are looking for it i am saying warm when they are close enough to it and cold when they are far away. I am using words like getting warm when they getting closer or getting cold when they start to move away. This game is very exited for kids especially when they getting something for it. And by using words this game are suitable for very young kids.

I didn't do it for my kids...or at least I cannot remember if I did.... when I was little the boy next door and I were playing in the back lane...we would race toy cars along tracks between the rocks, play marbles, pogo jump, play football, run out billy carts, ride bikes and all sorts of things. This particular day, we were digging for treasure and I dug up some pretty glass beads . I was thrilled and very excited and I thought nothing of it when my playmate wanted to keep the "treasure" safe at his place. I found more beads the next day and also a few days after that. When I tried to find them on my own I had no luck. That was a sad time for me, searching and digging by myself to no avail. It was years and years later that I realised it was my friends Mum who was burying the beads for us to "find".

We do that on easter. We have certain colored eggs for the different kids...we have 3 kids, and they have to find a certain amount of eggs before they get a present...I find it better than them coming down and seeing all the gifts from the easter bunny "left" for them. they love it too. They start asking for it in like january....hehehe