Archive for the ‘Treasure Hunt Party Game’ Category
Monday, June 25th, 2007Hi Nikki,
Our church had our treasure hunt this past weekend. It was a great success and so much fun. This was a family event so all ages were able to participate. We used cities in the Bible (Paul’s Journey) as our stations, and challenges that Paul would have faced in these cities, some mental some physical. We have 60 people participate and everyone had so much fun and could not believe how well the treasure hunt worked out and how organized it was. Your planner kits was great I would recommend it to other churches and groups. Thanks for the help.
Hawkins Church Vicksburg Ms.
Julie Townley, Massachusetts
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007My 30th Birthday and Halloween celebrations in London, England.
Russell Holman, London UK
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007on Easter Sunday for my 4 year old daughter
Di Armistead, London UK
Sunday, June 10th, 2007Hi Nikki
I am thinking of organising a treasure hunt for my daughters 11th birthday, how big an open space do we need? We could do it in the local park.
Regards
Louise Ross, East Renfrew UK
Sunday, June 10th, 2007Nikki-
the Treasure Hunt I am planning is for our Church’s Vacation Bible Study- so it needs to be Christian- based for children- actually one hunt for smaller children and a second hunt for pre-teens.
Thanks-
Tina Chiapetta, Illionois USA
Friday, June 8th, 2007Michigan USA on memorial day weekend.
35 family members get together at our cottage for a fishing tournament and other games, softball, cards, cocktails, boating, tubing, etc.
Age range is 6-70 with about 10 under 13 years of age.
The theme title is the 5th annual Gregor family & friends fishing tournament.
Since the main event of the weekend is the fishing tournament the following day, many of the items in the treasure chest will be fishing related (fishing lures, and other tackle box items and kids fishing games and craft projects.)
Diane Gregor, Michigan USA
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Hi,
I am planning a strawberry picking party for my 7 year old. And aside from picking strawberries and making their own individual shortcakes I wanted to something else that would take up some time and be unique.
Christine Flory, New York USA
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007Hi Nikki,
So far we are getting along fine, we have about 30 kids we are inviting.. ages 9-10. We are doing the pirate theme treasure hunt. We were thinking about having a treasure for each team instead of just one. I suspect this could get quite complicated. Any suggestions?
thanks!
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Hi Tracy
There are a couple of approaches - one is to have enough treasure for everyone. The first team digs it up, but then gets to share it with everyone.
Second have several boxes of treasure in the same location. The first team finds one, then as the other teams get there, they can dig in the surrounding area.
Third idea is that each team gets a different treasure map and so finds treasure in a different location. That doesn?t need to be too complicated, the first team to solve the final clue gets the first map and so on. You will have to create several maps though!
Best wishes
Nikki
Tracy Nekula, Ohio USA
Monday, June 4th, 2007In California on 29th October for my son’s 8th birthday. Guests aged 6-10 yrs.
Tammie Williams, California USA
Monday, June 4th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I am the one handling our treasure hunt. It’s a company picnic
We are in Guam (US Territory, an island in the Pacific) - it’s hot and sometimes rainy. Our setting for the party is at a beach/picnic area outdoors. Plenty of grassy areas, plenty of water, but very little sand - mostly big rocks instead.
August 5th
this is the summer company picnic
about 250 guests - mostly adults but also some children
Our theme is a treasure hunt - I’m having some trouble with this one, as I would like a slogan or title for our event. I like the pirate idea too, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to NAME our event after ‘pirates’ or ‘raiders’ or ‘plunderers’ etc. as it is the company’s image at stake
We have already begun planning the games and playing areas for our treasure hunt. since we have so many people, I think we may plan a simulated trial-run with a few of us prior to the event, just to make sure we’ve planned it well. I’ll let you know if we have any questions.
Thanks!
Nicole Sonario, Guam USA
Monday, June 4th, 2007Hello Nikki,
We are planning a party in Brussels, Belgium, which is where we are based although we are British and all the children are English speaking.
It is for my daughter’s 7th birthday party on 3rd July and we are expecting 14 (maybe 15) children between the ages of 6 1/2 and 7 1/2.
I have read through the book a couple of times and I think it looks good. Some of the games look at bit tricky for them, perhaps the message written backwards is too hard, but I guess we could substitute it for another. The only real concern I have is that the children’s reading skills may not be up to it (they start reading late here - they’ve only been at it since September), so I thought I could incorporate lots of symbols to help them.
Also, does it matter if the teams are not of equal sizes? I was thinking of 2 teams of 4 members and 2 of 3 members. Will it still work? I’d be grateful to hear any comments you have.
Best regards,
Philippa Stewart, Belgium
Friday, June 1st, 2007The treasure hunt party will take place in Concord, NC. next weekend, Saturday, October 15th at 6pm.
It is going to be a costume Halloween party.
The party is for my 12 year old sister and about 15 of her friends so they will range in age from 11-13. It will be a girl/boy party. Most every girl that will be attending plays softball so they are all tomboys.
Suzanne Long, North Carolina USA
Friday, June 1st, 2007In San Diego on November 5th. A wedding with guests ranging from 2yrs to 80yrs!
Kristen Spoon, California USA
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007I?m planning a 4 year old birthday party at a water park. We were going to do a pirate treasure hunt in a wooded area nearby with a creek etc. The ending prize is going to be the treasure trunk pinata.
Kerri Kaste,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Once we got the treasure hunt started, it went pretty smoothly. I had teams of one adult and one kid, and I mixed them up, so usually the parent didn’t get their own kid. I thought that would help the neighbors get to know other people’s kids a little better. Everyone had lots of fun and much laughter was heard. The only thing I regret is not having it all in the same room, because some of the tasks were quite funny! The tasks were a bit of a challenge because I had to configure them so that all can participate (we had ages from 2 to 54). So some tasks were better done by the small kids and some tasks were better done by the adults. All in all, I was very pleased and am looking forward to planning my a treasure hunt for my daughter’s birthday party in two weeks, which means I better get cracking now!
Thank you very much, that was $30 well spent.
Terri Harmon, Illinois USA
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I am planning a treasure hunt in Washington, USA. Saturday April 23rd, For my best friend’s birthday. Guests are aged between 21 and 70.
I appreciate your e-mails ~ checking up on me to see if I am progressing at an appropriate pace, and I think I am. Thank you for your concern.
Good Luck with your endeavor, I will drop you a line when I can tell you how the party turned out.
Genie Sunshine, Washington USA
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I am planning a treasure hunt for my brother’s 40th birthday party bash in South Africa. It is going to be a lot of laughs.
Anerie Rademeyer, Johannesburg South Africa
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I had no problems downloading ‘the treasure!’ And I’d be glad to share my plans, as well as a final review, after the event. I’m currently printing out the rest of the document (of course, I ran out of paper this week, so it is a staged process!) and starting to plan my hunt, using your ideas and theme to construct this year’s treasure hunt event.
Here’s the story — a tale of two families. Rachel and I were neighbors while our children were young (we each had 4 kids). Although our families are mostly grown up now, we are still best of friends, as are our children that were essentially raised together. Once a year, we ALL go on a 4 day tent camping trip together. This has become a gathering of 30 people.
Adults, young adults, teenagers, elementary children, and now a couple of toddlers! Every few years when my kids were young, I’d do neighborhood treasure hunts or scanvenger hunts for their birthday parties. Then, for the kids on our annual camping trip I’d do some sort of hunt.
Last year, no hunt. I ran out of ideas. It turned out, the kids were disappointed. So I started searching the web and libraries early this year for ideas to beg, borrow, steal, or buy! And I found you!
* This year, Fr. Hennepin State Park, Isle, MN. * Every year, we assign a new committee of 2 to decide * where next years camping trip will be. * We are Minnesotans, so it is always in MN, WI.
* July 20 - 24. The actual hunt will depend on the weather * and scouting out the campground locations that I can use.
2 - 62 age range. But, while I debated on whether it would be better to set up separate hunts for elementary, teen, adults — or maybe build the teams with members of each age group; whatever I do, I need to take the teen’s competitiveness into account. THEY WANT TO WIN!
* This year, I’m going to go with your Pirate theme. * I appreciate very much that you offered to help with questions. * But, your ideas that you published will keep me going * for awhile yet. * However, if I get a brainstorm wonderful idea, * I’ll let you know.
* Thanks, again!
Eileen Blackwood, Minnesota USA
Monday, May 28th, 2007Dear Nikki,
Tomorrow is the big event! I chose the frog theme from the kid’s classroom this year and named the party the GREAT FROG ADVENTURE! I formatted all locations, teams and challenges to the theme. We buried the treasure yesterday and all helpers and instructions are set and ready for tomorrow. Having never done this kind of party, I am excited and nervous wanting to know I have accounted for all the details and possible glitches. Say a prayer for me tomorrow and I’ll let you know how it went.
We will have 47 kids and 12 adults!
Thanks!
LeeAnn Biggs, Indiana USA
Monday, May 28th, 2007Thank you for this excellent product. We had the party on Saturday and it was fantastic. I live in France so had to translate it and we did a Harry Potter theme. For the code, we sent the kids to a computer where they typed in the code and then a PowerPoint presentation sent them to the kitchen for the treasure. It was really brilliant fun and I know we’ll be doing it all again soon! Thanks again,
Alex Laurie, Eure et Loir Francernrn
Monday, May 28th, 2007Hi Nikki: I am planning a hunt for my fiance for his 51st birthday. We are having family (ages6+- 73) and of course his contemporaries. We should total about 40 people. He is a man with everything so when friends were telling us of cache hunts I got inspired and started my search. We live in a 15,000 sq foot home on a mountain top in Huntsville AL so many places to hide things. His birthday is in July right after our wedding which is two days earlier so obviously lots on my plate. I am sure I will have many questions and am grateful for this contact with you-very kind. Warmest Regards,
Cathleen Jackson, Alabama USA
Monday, May 28th, 2007We will be holding the treasure hunt July 8th and then 9th for Camp TBI which is a camp for children and young adults with brain injuries.
I am doing a treasure hunt first with the counselors during training so that they can get oriented to the different places at camp. When they find a clue they will be given a little token that they have to bring back to the main office. When they have all of the clues they will be given a card from their main counselor that explains what each of the tokens are, for example, they will get a ’smartie’ candy to let them know how smart they are. They will be given an eraser so that they know that everyone makes mistakes and it’s okay. Anyway the theme of all the clues will be a ‘counselor survivor kit’. The next day, the campers will do something very similar and the counselors will be giving the campers the survivor kits.
It will be held in GA, USA. I will have 70 counselors and 42 campers. Age range of campers is 8-24 counselors 16-70.
I only glanced at the book and need to start working on it soon. I was excited to figure out how to incorporate it into our camp. Our theme this year for camp is Wild and Wacky sports so I will be changing the stations or ports to different places that have to do with sports, for example, one of the stations will be ‘Green Ball Court’ meaning that they have to first figure out that they have to go to the tennis courts. So they have two clues to figure out, one is where the station is, and then what the puzzle will be
Judie Thompson, Georgia USA
Monday, May 28th, 2007Treasure hunt is in Illinois November 18th and October 30th I bought it for my daughter’s 11th birthday and thought it would also be great to use at a neighborhood halloween party (50s through 2s).
This looks like it will be a lot of fun.
Terri Harmon, Illinois USA
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Dear Nikki,
I received the treasure hunt planner without a problem. I am planning a treasure hunt for the July 4th weekend. My family along with 7 other families with kids are going camping in upstate NY. We have been doing this for a few years now. The kids range in age from 3-15. Last year I planned treasure hunt for them where one clue led to the next clue and so on until the last clue directed the kids to the treasure. The kids loved it so much that they asked for another treasure hunt this year. This year I wanted to make it a little different. I wanted to have the kids do an activity at each station where they would get a clue so your ideas have really helped.
I have changed a few ideas. I want all the kids to work together and not make teams because I don’t want it to become a competition. I know 14 kids is a lot to work together but I thought I would give it a try. For example, instead of mummy wrapping one team member I am having each kid mummy wrap another kids arm so everyone will have to be wrapped to move one to another station. I will let you know how it all works out.
Debra Meyers, New York USA
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Dear Nikki:
Our treasure hunt is in Sapporo, Japan, it’s a mini summer ‘festival’ for my students, aged 5 - 12
As for the challenges: at one station, the students have to ask & answer 30 English questions in their group; at station 2, the students have to ‘fish’ for English words (reading each word before putting it into their bucket); at station 3, the students will have to look at picture cards and say the words before getting their piece of the puzzle; and at station 4, I will say a word then the students will have to go through some obstacle course in order to get the item; at station 5, the students will have to answer ‘What Am I’ quizzes in order to get a puzzle piece; and I’m stumped for a station
6 idea (possibly have each group dress up in crazy costumes–which I must supply–and take a group photo)……
Sincerely,
Cheri Hayashi, Japan