Easter Egg hunts, treasure hunts, and other games in the house

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(I didn't get any replies in Chat, let's try here! ) We love egg hunts in our household, and puzzles, and look forward to the Easter one every year: we shall be doing ours as usual, come what may. When setting up egg hunts, what are your favourite places to hide eggs, or favourite clues?

One of our usual clues is an instruction to look on a certain page of a photo album, which will have picture of some spot in the house or garden.

Also (in the 1980s) my dad used to set up a puzzle on the computer, which would reveal the answer.

My brother and I loved treasure hunts as children, and were always doing them for each other; both setting them up, and taking part.

Share your ideas!

I didn't used to do anything complicated with DD when she was small - but she knew she had to look for her chocolate in places the dog couldn't reach!

We do the sort of treasure hunt where it's objects in the wrong place. So, you're given a CD as your first clue and you go to put it back there and there's a plate, so you take the plate and go to put it back but there's a clothes peg... etc. Easier to set than the cryptic clue ones I remember doing as a child!

My DM always spends hours sitting up the night before Easter Sunday coming up with clues for the DC's Easter egg hunt in her house. She will hide the written clues around the house and they are colour-coded for each child, so if they find a clue that's not theirs, they have to quietly put it back again.

The clues are four line rhymes which lead them to the next clue (she's a teacher so she even differentiates them for eldest DD's learning difficulties) and the next, and so on. There are usually around 10-15 clues.

It's so much work, but the the DC absolutely love it (even now, on their mid-late teens!).

Another game would be taking photos of household objects or locations in the house in close up or from odd angles and having to identify them.

@ScrapThatThen That game of identifying objects from close up was part of the game show "incredible games", on TV in 1994.

I love these ideas! I just bung them under flowers in the garden etc, so I think I'll be using some of these.

I love the idea of finding things in the wrong place (not sure my messy children would get the concept though!)

We have an egg hunt around the house with rhyming clues and there is always a little chocolate gift with each clue.

The final place is always inside of the washing machine as that's where the largest eggs/prizes can be hidden.

I love the finding things in the wrong place idea too!

For slightly older dc

QR codes where you scan the code to get the clue.
Pigpen codes or morse code
Two photos identical except one thing is missing, that is where the clue/ treasure is
Sudoku clue for something numerical- e.g. opening a padlock
Anagram
Using music notes or periodic table to write words.
Reverse images of photos make it even harder
Good old fashioned rhyming clues.

That game of identifying objects from close up was part of the game show "incredible games", on TV in 1994.

I'm sure it was on Ask the Family on the 70s!

DH and I do hunts for each other: he sets up a clue-by-clue hunt for me. As for the one I do for him: his eggs are hidden in plain sight, but he has to find them blindfolded. Any which he fails to find, I get to eat them!

I'm thinking of doing clues for the DCs this year. DS is 8 and could probably cope with "the place where we X" or "look for something that makes music" while DD is 5 and will need "on the bed" or "in a boot" (phase 3 phonics)!