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Ideas for a book themed scavenger hunt

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siddis · 18/01/2018 14:16

I’m planning a scavenger hunt for World Book Day for children aged 6-8 years and wondered if any of you clever people could help? I would like the item to relate to a book (that is preferably fairly well known so will be recognisable).

Examples of ideas so far:

  • green leaf for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • stick as a wand for witch in Room on the Broom/ or Stickman

Other items the children could collect: stone, feather, moss, acorn, flower, cobweb, grass, pine cone, empty snail shell, tree bark etc.

Any ideas how these could be linked to well known books? Thank you!

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MerlinsScarf · 18/01/2018 14:23

There are some good nature stuff in We're Going on a Bear Hunt, a couple are quite specific like snow but there's long wavy grass, so a blade of grass could possibly tie in?

MerlinsScarf · 18/01/2018 14:31

Oh and there's a Julia Donaldson book called Sharing a Shell, which could tie in with the snail shells?

widgetbeana · 18/01/2018 14:35

Elmer is pretty recognisable, could you use that some way?

Green eggs and ham? Dr Seuss? Or perhaps the hat from cat in hat instead?

Magic beans - jack and beanstalk

Broken chair - Goldilocks

Underpants - either captain underpants or aliens love underpants

DontCallMeJohnBoy · 18/01/2018 14:35

They're old enough for things like "George's marvelous medicine" so maybe a brown bottle or a paint tin?

widgetbeana · 18/01/2018 14:36

Sorry I was imagining pictures or items being hidden for scavenger hunt, not normal nature items! Sorry should read properly!

Web could be charlottes web?

Bubblysqueak · 18/01/2018 14:40

The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson would work for the snail shell.

An acorn - the gruffalo
Soil- bear hunt

siddis · 18/01/2018 14:46

Thank you for the suggestions so far, these are very helpful!

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MerlinsScarf · 18/01/2018 16:41

Owl Babies or The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark for the feather, and a stone could be Hansel and Gretel?

Slow day at work, if you can't tell!

MerlinsScarf · 18/01/2018 16:42

Owl Babies or The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark for the feather, and a stone could be Hansel and Gretel?

Slow day at work, if you can't tell!

siddis · 18/01/2018 17:34

:D those suggestions are great, thank you! I was also thinking stone from stone soup fairytale, seed for mice in Brambly Hedge, nut for squirrel Nutkin, Pooh stick from Winnie the Pooh.

Struggling with a flower....

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pancakebread · 18/01/2018 17:47

Alice in wonderland - cake, magic food, searching for white rabbit, hat, playing cards, red roses

Leeds2 · 21/01/2018 19:39

Jar of marmalade for Paddington.

Haarlemmer · 23/01/2018 13:46

A pot of honey for Winnie the Pooh (or nature theme - trees for Hundred Acre Wood?)
Thick glasses/stripy top and hat for Where's Wally?

LittleLights · 23/01/2018 13:50

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