Our adventures with Treasure Hunts. I’m setting several up this summer for different organisations and B is my tester. The first one comes this weekend…
211 – Testing the Victoria Square Treasure Hunt
Monday 2 June. Sunny. 17°C
The first Trails, Bales and Snails TREASURE HUNT is taking place at Victoria Square in Penarth this coming Saturday. For today’s challenge, B is going to test it for me. I think it’s ok but I need a child’s perspective. I’m not giving her ANY help… and we’ll see how long it takes her…
Finding the first clue takes her a while (follow the little path to the log piles) and she is puzzled at first. “What little path?”… then she sees the log piles and is off! Second clue also causes a problem. She starts haring off to the other side of the park… I make a note to specify that all clues are within sight of the next ones…and haul her back on track. She’s off again and this time I don’t catch up with her till 10 (‘An oak tree’).
B: “This is crazy. There’s hundreds of oak trees. How am I meant to find it?”
Kids today don’t want to work! She gets there in the end but we mutually agree there might be a more obvious spot for it. The next time I see her she’s clutching three prizes.
Me: “What did you take them all for?”
B: “You didn’t SAY just take one!”
We’ll put a note on to specify that then. It took her about thirty minutes I think, which is pretty good going.
She thought it was good… so hopefully it is. Anyone around Penarth on Saturday, come and give it a go?! But only take one prize!
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