How to stage a treasure hunt...

[katiesue]

We used to do scavengar hunts. You got a list of things to find, an egg, rubberband, usually simple things. Then you had to run around to all the neighbors and try to get them to give them to you. I guess in this day and age you can't really go around pounding on all the neighbors doors asking for rubber bands or eggs but it was a lot of fun.

The maps to find the treasure sound like a great idea. You could easily even break the kids into smaller groups with different maps so everyone got to participate more.

Chocolate coins would work for treasure.

Or - just thought of this. What if you cut the map up into smaller sections so you had to go to location 1 to find the next section to get you to location 2 and so on until you had the complete map to the treasure. Or each group of kids could have different sections so they'd have to work together to come up with the complete map.