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Yo ho ho! If you are looking to set up a treasure hunt for your pirate party, you can organize it in a couple of ways:
For very young children (under the age of 5), simply hide gold coins in your party area, and give the kids small mesh bags to put their loot in! It’s easy and fun. This candy can also be used as the party favor.
If your party guests are older kids, provide them with a treasure map. Create one by burning the edges of some brown paper and drawing a map on it. The kids must follow the map to the treasure. At each point, have a clue available for the kids to solve before they move on to the next location. Alternatively, provide clues that take them around an area and eventually lead to the treasure. Around ten clues would be ideal.
When the kids reach the treasure chest, have it filled with different kinds of hard candy, chocolate, eye patches, fake jewels, etc.
For some clues, check out the following (these include both indoor and outdoor locations):
- Tree — An old matey could take me down, and make me into a boat to sail around.
- Flower bed — If you pull a bunch from the bed, they will flourish and bloom and make our ship move ahead.
- Sand box — Don’t get caught in the granular seed or soon enough you will be sinking and no longer able to lead.
- Fort — Head to your perch, pull out your scope, you’ll have the best view if you lurch!
- Front porch — Yer perch may be where it all begins, open the door and you may be let in!
- Garage — It’s dark and dank, full of stowage and vittles if we be frank.
- Mailbox — We ship out on X date, and your marching order will come to the box by the gate.
- Bathtub — If you get out of hand on board, we’ll hose you down in here with a hoard.
- Kitchen table — Around this place we’ll gather for vittles or drink or a game of cards in you rather.
- Fire place — It’ll be cold on board as the waves take us over, you’ll so wish to warm yourselves with burning clover.
These are just a few of the clues you can use to lead your pirate party guests around to find their treasure! Good luck hunting!
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Treasure Hunt
This is one of the classic pirate games. It’s extremely fun and interactive!! The kids love it…. You can get a complete treasure hunt activity set, or put one together on your own.
You can make up practically anything for clues. Here’s an idea that’ll suit a group of different ages - use nursery rhymes for the clues. For example, the first clue can be: “The itsy, bitsy __________ climbed up the __________ _________. Spider and Water Spout are the clues. Once they figure this out, the next clue can be hidden (taped to the bottom of) a rubber black spider taped on the gutter in your back yard or on some sort of water spout. Another clue can be Jack & Jill went up a hill to fetch a _______ __ ______. The next clue can be floating in a vile in a pail of water. Another idea for a clue can be: Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your ________ grow? Hide this clue clue in your garden. Get the idea? At the end of the hunt, find an interesting place marked with a large X to hide a treasure chest filled with a goodie box with each kids name on it. This way the kids won’t all be grabbing for the loot, while the little kids get nothing.
What a wonderful idea. Thank You!!
Thanks so much for those fun (and FREE) clues! I do hunts with my kids regularly, and there are a couple other good sites where you can find these types of printable treasure hunt games online which I’ve personally used in the past like Riddle Me and Treasure-Adventure.com. Riddle Me will work better for you if you have young preschool children - they sell software that lets you create your own clues and generate hunts, whereas Treasure-adventure seems to target kids ages 5 and up, and they have instant downloads of the hunts with the clues already made which involve a little more challenging riddle solving for the older children. I think they both have themed hunts for holidays too & although they do charge small fees for their hunts, they also offer quite a few free activities and printables on their sites so if you need more hunts or free activities check them out!