Ideas for grown-up Easter egg hunt in isolation

[peoplepleaser1]

We usually do a silly Easter egg hunt. I'd like to do one this year, we don't give eggs but I've saved a bar of dairy milk each for DS (13), and DH. I'm thinking about a series of tough clues leading eventually to the chocolate.

I'm thinking that this year it would be great to make it more challenging as we are all cooped up together...... Any ideas as to how to do this would be great.

I guess I need tough clues, word games and similar.

We do one at Christmas round the house

I’ll see if anyOne Remembers some of the clues

One was a riddle about a small greeting

Microwave

Next clue (dh has just come in the room) was In a dvd case and the clue was about the film

Lots of others are house specific...but he did say that one clue was tucked behind a sign and the clue was about the sign. So you could do the same with a picture or poster

He’s trying to remember some others

He said he did one about a book and the clue was the book

My dad used to make a word search which had all the words for the clue in it

My dad also did a crossword where the first letters of the word made a hiding place

Oooh brilliant ideas thank you

Following because I would like to do the same for DDs. We usually do one where they have to go around the whole village so I am going to struggle in our (not v big) house. They are 13 and 17 and cleverer than me so I need to think hard!

I’m doing an escape room style this year. So they’ll have to solve a series of clues to find a code which will ‘unlock’ the door to the garden- they then need to find a series of objects (blue ‘key’ unlocks blue ‘padlock’ to get into trampoline to access the screwdriver etc) only bits of recycling/ card painted blue. Once they’ve got all the ‘tools’ together needed to ‘break into’ the shed then they will have a final code to crack before they can get in

@TheGirlWhoLived that sounds amazing! I don't quite understand your plan though- my brain is rusty. Do you have a link to anything I could follow or time to explain in baby words?

I'm going to make a plan for my hunt this evening and I'll come back to this post and share what I come up with too!

I usually do a poem for the dcs, which takes them around the house, with each location having a clue to the next.
When they were very little it was just a picture clue to the first location, which have another picture clue to the next one and so on. So the first would be a picture of a sock (sock drawer), then a pair of pants (underwear drawer), a brick (Lego box) etc..

I do Cockney rhyming slang clues or anagrams for the adults.

For example : where you put your plates of meat (feet) = shoes

Underneath and apples and pears (stairs)

I’m going to do an assault course/circuit training one for my son.

They are 13 and 17 and cleverer than me so I need to think hard!

Its just the fun of it, so christmas eve 2018 my children (nearly 20, 17 and 15) were thundering around the house

When ds1 (a few days off 20) slipped on the stairs

There was a cry of pain

Ds2 yelled ‘man down!!’

And ds1 said bravely ‘its fine...go on without me’

From the living room it sounded like a very low budget war movie

Nice thegirl

Awesome plan

Oh sorry I was having a bbq and didn’t think to check back!

So they would solve clues which are age appropriate, what is 2+4, add up the legs for a spider and a ladybird, where were you born, whatever you fancy really!

This then gives them a numbered ‘code’ which they write down on a piece of paper and give to you so you unlock the patio doors, leading to the next stage?

Alternatively you can have treasure hunt (start with riddles like ‘get some rest, lay your head, this lies at the top of your bed’ (dd is 6 ) and then under their pillow will be the clue leading them to the next place (eg I’m hot and thirsty and need a drink, your clue is taped under the ), then that would lead so on until they reach the ‘code’ of eg 123, which they then pass to you to get out into the garden.

Once in the garden you would have hidden coloured cardboard ‘keys’ (eg red, yellow and blue) and cardboard ‘tools’ (hammer, spanner, screwdriver). You will then stick a corresponding coloured padlock on various things (blue padlock by the rockery, yellow padlock on the trampoline and red padlock on the rabbit hutch)

Then hide the first key in the open garden, but they need to find the blue key to open the blue padlock, leading to the hammer- the yellow key to open the yellow padlock to search in the trampoline, where the screwdriver will be hidden and the red key to open the rabbit hutch and find the final tool (spanner). They’ll need to give you all three tools to be able to ‘break into’ the shed to find their Easter eggs!

Does this make more sense? Probably not @peoplepleaser1