Tresure Hunt

'Treasure Hunt !!!'

Everybody busy with their own stuff and I have designed treasure hunt yesterday afternoon.

It was combination of some imagination plus measuring with tape and direction finding with compass this time. Where blue Aparajita flower (Clitoria ternatea) became 'Blue bird', Golden Bamboo became 'Golden ghosts', pink flower bed became jungle of pink fairies, yellow desk became yellow mountain! Clues were hidden into bushes, hanging on the tree, hidden under soil or just stuck somewhere. It took around two hours to find the treasure...treasure was Megh's favorite chocopie biscuits and a glass for painting Ashna wants. They found measuring distance in the given direction and decoding imaginative name of clues challenging.....bit difficult sometimes , took help from grandma for meaning of some words..

Some days back designed English treasure hunt as Megh was having confusion with words like before, after, above, below, behind ....hidden clues around things at home so he has to know meaning to find next clue...like under the pillow, behind the map, inside microwave.

Treasure Hunt is fun...children always looking for it. Treasure might be just a chocolate but finding 'Treasure' is thrilling and good patience building exercise. It can be designed for any age and on different difficulty levels. Just know the child, add some imagination, create & hide clues and go!

It all started from Pirates of caribbean series of movies two year back. Ashna was Jack Sparrow fan those days... bedsheets, drawing everywhere you can find him. And then making pirates stuff in our craft projects...different hats, map, binocular, gold coins, flags, pirate ornaments, ship etc. Then finding this amazing game has opened door of learning with fun-thrill-adventure.


Started with Pirates craft but hunt is evolving with time and we do not need Pirate make-up or other stuff anymore. Clues are designed so they have to use their knowledge, language & maths skill, climbing-digging and use of different tools. I have many rough ideas to make it more interesting, knitting story around hunt, making it a kind of puzzle or adding more adventure into it... i'm learning.