Scavenger Hunt Clue Ideas

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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!

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

Making of Easter Cookies:

Easter cookies have always been a source of delight and crisp for those are eagerly looking forward to Easter time and decorated Easter cookies are one of the important members of Easter menu which will make your Easter a super special event. Easter cookies are simple to make and comes in different shapes and sizes. For most of the people Easter cookies are remembered with the shapes of bunnies, rabbits, chicks, lambs and Easter eggs. You can find most of the shapes easily and get them through cookie cutters as well.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar

1 pinch salt

3/4 cup softened butter

4 tsp orange juice

2 tblsp milk

3/4 cup currants

3 egg yolks

4 cup all-purpose flour

Easter cookie glaze:

Food color

2 tblsp powdered sugar

1 egg white lightly beaten

Easy way to make Easter cookies:

• Switch on the oven and allow it to heat up to 350 F (175 c).
• In the mean time you should grease several baking sheets with butter.
• Then take a large bowl and beat butter with sugar into it until creamy.
• A little later you can also beat in some more ingredients like egg yolks, orange juice and milk. Don’t forget to add currants.
• After that sift flour and salt into bowl and mix in so that it forms fairly stiff dough.
• You should knead it lightly and gently on a floured surface until it is smooth.
• Following this roll out to 1/8-inch thickness.
• With the help of a round 2-1/2-inch-fluted cookie cutter, cut out circular shapes from dough and place them on greased baking sheets.
• The trimmings will be as such. Knead and roll out the trimmings and cut out more same circular shapes out of the dough until it is used up and no trimmings are left.
• You should bake the cookies for 10 minutes and then remove from the oven.
• Now it is time to brush the baked cookies with egg white mixture and sprinkle them lightly with the powdered sugar.
• Return to oven once again for about 5 minutes longer or until the cookies is light brown in color.
• After 5 minutes remove them from baking sheets to wire racks and allow it to cool.
• You should always store it in an airtight container.
• Easter cookie glaze

How to make Cookie Glaze:

• For the cookie glaze, mix together egg and powdered sugar into a bowl.
• Later also add a few drops of food coloring, if needed.