Stuck indoors on a rainy day? Summer heat keeping you inside?
Afraid that your kids won’t get enough energy out? Or that they will fight all day? Or just generally drive you crazy? Help yourself by putting together a picture scavenger hunt for your kids!
What is a picture scavenger hunt, you ask? It’s a regular scavenger hunt, but instead of using words as clues you use pictures. That way even your littles that can’t read can participate in the fun!
How to start? This is the best part. The kids need to leave you alone for about fifteen minutes so you can put it together. And they won’t be angry about it because they will be so excited to participate in the picture scavenger hunt. Win-win!
Now, grab a sheet of paper and a marker. Any old paper will do as long as it has one blank side. Cut the paper into twelve even rectangles (clues.) Two length-wise cuts and three width-wise cuts.
Next, look around the room. Find a couple unique objects that look easy to draw and are on opposite ends of the house. And start drawing.
Do you need to be a talented artist? No. Do you need to draw every detail on the object? No. Your pictures just need to look generally like the object, and you are good to go.
Once you have a couple pictures of things in your surrounding area then move to another part of the house and do it again. Repeat until you have twelve different pictures (clues) drawn.
By now hopefully you have gotten fifteen minutes of peace and quiet to yourself. Which means the picture scavenger hunt should have already been worth it!
Even better, now you get to shut your kids in the bathroom! Or any room that doesn’t have clues and where the kids won’t complain. Again, they won’t be mad because you are setting up the picture scavenger hunt.
Take the first clue in your hand and put it in your pocket. This will be the clue that you hand to your kids when you are ready. Now go to the object that is on the clue in your pocket and hide another clue. Repeat until all clues are hidden.
Now is when I usually add a couple juice boxes and dum dums to the final clue area so that the kids won’t be disappointed when the picture scavenger hunt ends.
That’s it! You did it! Great job.
Hopefully the kids will have about fifteen minutes of fun looking around the house to find the clues. So that means you just got fifteen minutes to accomplish some of the things you need to get done around the house. Or if you are lucky then you got fifteen minutes to just rest and recoup alone.
Let me know how it worked out in the comments!
