Treasure Hunt

The boxes I made out of the vintage Easter bunny book months ago came in handy yesterday. They were the perfect size for putting clues in and hiding around our house for an Easter treasure hunt! We had enough people coming over to make two teams of four, so we divided the boxes up in order for each team to have twelve clues leading to the same treasure. At first, we thought we'd have to come up with twenty-four different riddles, but then it made more sense for some to just be a word scramble, or for others, to put a part of the hiding place in the box as a clue. 

To make it easier for teams to work together and not take all night, we specified the room on the back of the clue that the next was hidden in. We tried to make sure each team had an equal ratio of difficult and easy clues. Easy ones were in the freezer ("The hotter you get, the colder you'll feel") and the mailbox (post stamps with "Deliver me.") We don't own too many books or DVDs, so we made hiding clues to search behind them a little trickier by writing a quote from a movie which I only own a book for, and from Shakespeare's Macbeth, which we only have on DVD. 

We put the prize candy basket in the dryer, and everyone partook as winners, though it was the Orange Team that officially solved the final riddle ("Regular Knit or Cotton High? Don't worry! There is no real danger.") The first part refers to the temperature setting, and the last to the "Danger: Do Not Use" sticker that has to be on our dryer by law because it doesn't stop tumbling when you open the door. We made this one a bit trickier by not including the area of the house that it was hidden in. 

I think it was a rewarding experience all around, and may become a new yearly tradition!