Scavenger Hunt Clue Ideas

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Valentines day is an exciting event for children. As a parent, you want to create memories which will remain in the heart of your special, little Valentine forever.  Creating exceptional Valentine’s Day memories is an easy task with Riddle Me Scavenger and Treasure Hunt Party Software. This software will allow you to easily design an unique Valentines day scavenger hunt, which is tailored to the likes of your individual child or children.  The process is easy.  You simply select the child’s age group.  Next, choose hiding areas from a list of household objects.  Presto!  The Riddle Me software will then print a fun set of rhyming clues for your child to follow.  Below are some ideas for exciting Valentine’s day scavenger hunt games which you may create.

If your child enjoys baking cookies you may elect to hide ingredients throughout the house.  Use your Riddle Me software to print entertaining clues for he or she to follow.  Each clue they solve will lead them to a cookie ingredient.  Once all the ingredients have been found, the two of you can spend quality time baking Valentines Day cookies.  This is a memory that both of you will always treasure.

If your little Valentine is artistic, then it may be fun to hide art supplies in different locations. For example, you may hide a set of markers behind the book shelf in the den, glitter pens under the sofa, a pack of construction paper in the hallway trunk, scissors beneath your office desk, and glue in the kitchen cabinet.  Now, use the Riddle Me software to print rhyming hints to each object. You have just created a Valentines day scavenger hunt. Upon finding all the art supplies, you may spend the afternoon making valentines day cards for all your friends, and loved ones.  To add to the spirit of love which this traditional day brings, you may opt to make Valentines for patients at a local nursing home.  The patients will be delighted to receive these cards, and your child will learn the importance of giving.  You have received a double reward.  You and your child have created a special memory, and you have bought a smile to those who may be alone on this special day.

This game is good for dads as well as moms.  If your little one has been asking you to play ball with them, this may be a good time to oblige.  Consider using the Riddle Me software to print clues.  You may hide a ball under the back steps, a bat in the garage, a glove in the basement, and a catcher mitt under the bed.  After the equipment has been found, the two of you can play ball.

These are the types of memories that will last for an enite life time.  These Valentines day scavenger hunts are uniquely entertaining, and will give them something to tell all their friends about.  You may visit the Riddle Me site at  www.riddleme.net .  Spend some time looking over the site.  If you should decide to give the program a try, you will be delighted with the results it renders.  As well, your heart will be warmed with the wideness of your child’s smile as he or she excitedly runs about the house gathering clues.

To add some extra fun to Easter this year, why not turn the same boring old hunt into an Easter treasure hunt? There are numerous ways this can be done, all a lot of fun for the whole family!

Buy larger sized plastic Easter eggs than you would normally use. These can be found in craft stores, dollar stores, and sometimes even in your local grocery store. Different sizes can be found and used in this game, so make sure you buy eggs that will fit the requirements. Use the plastic eggs to fill with items that can be used for ingredients for baking cookies! Of course, you probably will not be able to fill an egg with flour or sugar, but you can use things such as pastel colored candies for baking, sprinkles, decorative icing, and edible decorations. Write down your cookie recipe and cut it into sections, making sure to number each part so you do not forget the order in which they go. Use these cut sections to hide in smaller Easter eggs. Once all of the recipe clues and ingredient items have been found, let the kids do the baking! They should be supervised of course, but let this be their activity and they will have a great time making cookies and being creative. For smaller children, using pre-made or store bought cookie dough may be a better idea, letting them decorate the cookies to their heart’s content.

You might even consider letting the older kids bake clues into the cookies for friends and family who might visit later in the day! Fortune cookie paper can be found in a craft store, and this can be used for writing down clues. For more fun ideas like this, visit RiddleMe.net and check out their website and software!

Easter is a time for enjoying your family and having fun. Setting up the traditional Easter egg hunt can become boring and routine if you do not spice things up a bit though! Here are some ideas for making the hunt more lively and fun with your family.

Make bunny rabbit footprints! Using colorful paper and a stencil, cut pieces of paper into bunny rabbit foot shapes. Leave the footprints in a trail that will lead the kids to various different prizes, or make the footprints clues themselves! Use the bunny footprints for writing clues as to where a prize can be found. To help you keep the clues appropriate for the age group of your kids, the software at RiddleMe.net can be used. This software also has tons of great ideas to help you customize your Easter egg hunt. The RiddleMe.net website can provide you with ideas as well, through their user submitted blogs and activity pages.

Another twist on the bunny footprint idea is to use paint – make sure it is safe (washes off) – and a stencil stamp to simulate bunny footprints on the ground outside. Use different colors to lead to different prizes or clues you have hidden before the hunt starts. The paint and stencil can usually be found in a craft store, and while you are there, you might see some additional items to make the hunt even more fun. See if you can find something to represent little tufts of bunny fur! This is especially exciting to the younger kids, as they will see this and know that they are on the right trail for finding the Easter Bunny’s hidden candy treasure. This fun and unique Easter egg hunt will be one for the whole family to enjoy and remember.

Are you looking for ideas for your young teen groups for your church Easter egg hunt? It can be frustrating trying to come up with new and engaging ideas year after year, however, you can find many great ideas on the Internet. RiddleMe.net has excellent software that can help you put together an Easter scavenger hunt. The website also has blog posts and helpful tips to further your creative thinking.

An Easter scavenger hunt is a great idea for a younger church youth group. Compose at least two lists of items that are Easter themed, and divide your group into teams and have them set out on their hunt. Each team should keep their lists separate and secret – this way you can have an added twist to the end result. The items that each team will gather can be used together at the end of the hunt for events such as an Easter party, to make gifts for elderly members of the church, or for prizes for the younger children to find as they are hunting.

To make this whole process a nearly effortless one, you should take advantage of the software offered by RiddleMe.net. This software will allow you to fully customize your Easter scavenger hunt. The target age group can be selected, and you will be presented with options appropriate for that age. It will prompt you through creating riddles and clues for your hunt, and also comes pre-loaded with thousands of clues and riddles! All of these, custom or pre-made, can be printed out to give to your scavenger hunting team, leaving less work for you.

By giving the usual and sometimes boring Easter hunt a twist such as this, you will create a memorable event that will be exciting and fun for everyone!

It’s almost time for Easter again! Maybe the kids are entering an older age group this year, and are becoming bored with the same old tradition of hunting eggs. Add some fun options to the hunt and they will get right back into the holiday spirit again.

Instead of filling the little plastic eggs with candy or toys, why not put clues in them, with a “bunny’s lair” full of candy and prizes to be found at the end of the hunt? Include a treat in a few of the eggs to provide some inspiration along the way, but keep the main focus on the clues. These will make the hunt fun and exciting, and build up anticipation for finding the larger prize of goodies at the end. This type of Easter egg hunt will not be forgotten.

Many ideas of how to set up an Easter scavenger hunt can be found on the web, especially on sites such as RiddleMe.net. The software provided on this website will help you plan, organize, and come up with ideas for clues and prizes.

One idea for this is to turn it into an Easter bunny hunt. The Easter bunny could be a large stuffed animal, but it would probably be much more fun and exciting if it were a giant chocolate Easter bunny instead! Make sure the bunny is big enough for all the participants of the hunt to share once it is found, and include a variety of other treats as well. Small toy prizes or token jewelry could be part of this as well.

Visit Riddleme.net for more ideas on clues, games, prizes and toys that you can use to customize your Easter hunt this year, and you will create a lasting memory for your family!

Why not do something different with your Easter egg hunt this year? There are many ideas that can get your creative thinking going and turn this year’s hunt into more than just a game of finding pretty, colorful eggs.

Use food paint or stickers to add letters to the outside of each egg. You can do this randomly, or with specific words in mind. If you choose to go with specific words, it would be best to stick with one egg color so that the game does not turn into one of frustration. The words could spell out a sentence of clues, or a location where some hidden bunny treasure is waiting. Or if you go with random letters, turn it into a contest once all the eggs have been found and award a prize to the egg hunter who can create the most words.

If you need some help coming up with creative, Easter themed words for your egg hunt, why not visit RiddleMe.net? On this website you can view a blog of user submitted ideas, view pages of ideas for different activities, or download the software and use the pre-loaded templates to customize your own game. You can also use the software to create clues, riddles, and other puzzles for the kids to solve.

Another idea to liven up the Easter egg hunt this year is to write secret codes or phrases on small pieces of paper, and include them along with the candy hidden inside of plastic Easter eggs. Hide small prizes nearby, and use the slips of paper to reference clues to finding that prize. Or just put sweet little sayings that your kids will remember and cherish; something as simple as “I love you, you’re great!” will brighten their day.

Most of us are familiar with the tradition of hunting colorful eggs on Easter Sunday, but how many really know the origins of this tradition? You can turn your Easter egg hunt into a fun history lesson this year by incorporating these origins into your hunt.

Easter eggs are symbolic of new life, and this ties right in with the traditional Christian-based Easter. The eggs are representative of the rebirth of Christ on the day He was resurrected. Instead of being hunted, these eggs used to be given to children as gifts to symbolize this on the special day. It is believed that the hunting of the eggs came to be during a time in Europe when Christians were persecuted for their beliefs. Rather than giving the eggs directly, the adults would hide the eggs for the children to find instead, making it a tradition that has lasted for hundreds of years.

The legend of the goddess Ostara states that one year, she was late bringing in the spring weather, and as a result a bird’s wings were frozen by the lingering snow and ice. Ostara rescued the bird, but he was no longer able to fly. To compensate for the loss, Ostara turned the bird into a hare so that he would be able to quickly get away from hunters or other predators. As a special gift, she also gave him the ability to lay rainbow-colored eggs on one day of the year, and this is how the tradition and legend of the Easter Bunny began.

You can include fun facts and legends like this in your Easter egg hunt, printing them out and stuffing them into plastic eggs with other goodies. More ideas for Easter egg hunts can be found on RiddleMe.net, a great site with great software to customize all your homemade games and clues!

I occasionally get asked by people how to use Riddle Me to create a fun Easter activity. Here’s a few ideas.

Once your children reach a certain age, the traditional method of hunting colorful eggs in the yard or house might not be enough to keep their attention anymore. To bring the fun back and keep them in the Easter spirit, add some fun Easter egg hunt activities. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Have an Easter egg spoon race! These are always fun, no matter what time of the year it is. Use colorful plastic spoons and real eggs, boiled of course. If the eggs are dyed in the traditional Easter fashion this will be an even more fun activity. Designate an area in the yard for the race, marking a start line and a finish line. Have different prizes ready for the first, second, and third children crossing the finish lines. Have consolation prizes ready for any who do not make these places, so they do not feel sad or left out.

Alternatively, you could turn this race into a “nose race”. Instead of racing across a finish line with eggs on a spoon, have the kids push the eggs across the line using their noses! This silly activity will get your kids laughing for sure.

Turn egg hunting into a game of tag – each time someone finds an egg, they are “it” and must tap someone else so that they become “it” but here is the catch: They have to hop like a bunny to do this!

For more ideas on Easter egg hunt activities, visit RiddleMe.net and see what great ideas you can find on their website. RiddleMe.net also has software available for download that you can use to customize your games with clues and riddles and other ideas to make your Easter egg hunt fun and exciting.

Besides exchanging Valentine’s Day cards at school, your kids may not get to do much else for the holiday. Valentine’s Day can also be a holiday where you can do a little bit more if your child really enjoys it. Why not plan a Valentine’s Day party this year? You can have your child help you decorate. You can make some decorations at home together to make it a fun, quality time to spend together. You can use things like construction paper and paper doilies, stickers, and/or glitter.

For the party, plan a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt that the kids can play. You can set up the clues around the house in colder climates, or even outside if you live in a warmer climate. Depending on how many kids will be there, you can hide a good number of clues (twenty or so) to keep them moving on the hunt! Clues can be written out on valentines you make by hand like the decorations, or with some store bought ones.

You can have the clues lead to a piñata, full of Valentine’s Day goodies. The first person or group to reach it can take the first whack! Kids love piñatas – they don’t have to be just for birthdays anymore. After the goodies are all out, you and the kids can enjoy the rest of the party with some finger foods and party punch. If you like, you can have the children exchange valentines as well.  The kids will be sure to enjoy this party!