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squeakysqueakysqueak t1_j1kw5ek wrote

Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade

Head on over to r/constructedAdventures for ideas and Inspiration.

It’s a community dedicated toward teaching and inspiring others to build treasure hunts!

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MycologistPutrid7494 t1_j1kw23t wrote

Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade

Little Free Libraries are a great place to pick up books for your kids. I always fill ours with extra books and some toys the week of Christmas just in case.

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str8faded8 t1_j1kvtn8 wrote

Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade

They will forget about the presents when they're older but those treasure hunt memories will last a lifetime and maybe even become a tradition. Genius.Thanks for sharing.

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RevzZ3 t1_j1kuoow wrote

Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade

I still do this with close friends, though in a scaled down way. Even years later, we may not remember the gift itself but the memory of the experience really sticks and it makes a great shared story to recall.

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krusher67 t1_j1kqnq2 wrote

Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade

Treasure Hunts are the best! Good on you for doing one (or many) I'm 56 and my dad used to do them for us kids, and my kids, short, a few clues. Then I started, by doing them on a word doc with the location of the clue at the bottom in smaller print (think 12 "cards" on a page). 2 pages yields 24 clues, just long enough if you are creative. I sit and type it all out, since I, like most people, know my own home very well. Some clues are harder, some easier. "This clue is in a very tight spot" (vice in my workshop). My wife loved them as much if not more than the kids. Now I just make the odd one for her. It's the chase / solving the riddles she loves. Did a 24 clue hunt for Christmas for tomorrow for her, end clue is in a ziplock, inside a water bottle (full), frozen at the bottom of the freezer. So when she does get the last clue / gift (travel voucher), it'll take more time to get it out of that bottle. Heh heh. When placing the clues, I group them by location in the house, so I don't have to do as many trips up and down the stairs like she will have to. With the kids, if an Easter hunt I had them going to the mailbox 6-7 houses down the street and the final clue/gift was buried in a container in the sandbox 3 feet down. Left a couple shovels by the fence. Fond memories for sure. As they get older but before they lose interest, the clues can get more challenging. Takes a couple hours to do a good one to set it up. Cheers to my dad for him starting this tradition. (I even hide thank you notes when visiting ma and pa) Merry Christmas all.

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