Treasure hunt of 5 year olds

[TheHouseofMirth]

I'd like to do a treasure hunt at DS's party. There will be about 25 children in a small hall with garden. I don't want it to be frenzied free-for-all so I was thinking ofeither splitting them into small teams and getting each team to find a specific number of object (e.g coloured stars) to bring back and exchange for a prize, or to do proper clues and keep them in one big group and share out the "treasure".

I'd be interested to hear you treasure hunt experiences.

My mum did treasure hunts for me and both my sisters from age 5 or so upwards (till about 16 ). She still has them all somewhere....

We used to split into 3 or 4 teams. There wasn't really a 'competition' other than to see who finished first, because each teams treasure hunt led to the same prize but in a different place. Each team had 5 or so clues but did them in different orders.

If they can't read you might need a few helpers?

From memory at a very young age it was 'start here, take 5 small steps/giant strides/etc and look up'

Go outside and collect 6 red/blue/green stars

Go into a particular room and look for the teddy bear (you can see it without touching anything)

Cant wait to get mum to do it for DS!

We bought a treasure hunt game where they have 6 markers and we hid treasure behind each marker, then gave them party bags so they'd fill their own up on the way round! Though you have to remember to tell them to take only 1 each!!

We did it for about 20 kids and divided them into about 3 groups based on age, as there were a few younger ones who used the picture clues and the older ones (aged 5+) followed the clues we read out. If you don't want to pick teams why not get them to pick a team out of the hat or something so its fair.

Great that you've got a big garden and hall but we hid a couple in the house too as our garden was a little small to make it hard to hide the markers.

It was a Lello and Monkey game search for them on google.

Hope this helps! I must admit they all got sooo excited it was lovely.