Take Your Family on a Treasure Hunt!
This weekend, here's a fun way to have some fun together as a family! Put together a on old-fashioned scavenger hunt for your kids, and go ahead and piratize it into a treasure hunt, matey, for added fun! You can set up clues anywhere, but this is a great opportunity to get your kids outside and enjoy a little bit of nature.
Amanda Soule talks about a form of this in her book, The Creative Family (which I highly recommend!), specifically the activity of "questing." Here's what she says about it:
"Questing is an old tradition that is growing in popularity in the United States, and throughout the world. It combines elements of nature exploration, creativity, treasure hunting, community building, and place-based education. Following treasure maps, clues, and hints left by a network of other seekers, you travel through nature to find a hidden object. This is a wonderful opportunity for families to spend time together in their natural world, seeking and searching as a team. It provides not only a connection to the earth, but to a community of fellow seekers as well (page 123)."
A Few Resources
- Check out Letterboxing.org for info on this "intriguing pastime" (letterboxing is synonomous with questing).
**Also, MOMS, if you live in Orange County, you can go see and support Patricia Ann Designs this weekend (through Sunday) at the Junior League's annual Christmas Company event! It's a great place to look for Christmas decorations and gifts.
"If you like 'jean
parties', purse parties, shopping, food, amazing home decor, doggie
luxuries, chic jewelry, stunning ceramics, children's clothes, toys, chic
clothes for us, baby gifts, Christmas decorations, wine tasting, cookbooks,
kitchen accessories, or just fun window shopping, there is so much to see and
enjoy! It's a super fun shopping extravaganza to get you in the Christmas
spirit! Truly one stop shopping with affordable prices and so much selection!!!" ~ Shelley, from PAD
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