Looking for an easy, indoor treasure hunt to give your kids some fun on St. Patrick’s Day? This one is uses regular household items for each clue and ends with a Pot of Gold! (err… gold treats and trinkets 🙂 ) . Read on to check out the fun!
AN EASY INDOOR TREASURE HUNT
Treasure hunts are such a fun way to bring some problem and riddle solving clues to your kiddos! And, while they might not remember the details of each clue, they’ll definitely remember the joy of searching for clues and anticipating the big treasure at the end!
For this St. Patrick’s Day themed treasure hunt, we used colors of the rainbow and objects that matched those colors. You can definitely mix it up and use different objects but we tried to use things you might normally find in your every day household. The idea is pretty simple – each clue centered around one of the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) and a hopefully common household object that matched or was somehow related to the color. (If you don’t have some of the items, you can always print out or draw a picture and “hide” it in an area where that item might be found!
We didn’t number the clues but did go in order of the rainbow. You can always mix them up to make it a bit more challenging 🙂
THE ANSWER KEY!
Feel free to use these for your own personal use, mix and match, or add your own! There’s a blank clue set if you just want to use that and create your own!
- RED FLAME – OVEN/STOVETOP. Hide your clue around the oven or stove.
- ORANGE – ORANGE OR ORANGE JUICE. Hide your clue next to your oranges, cuties, or orange juice.
- YELLOW SUN – WINDOW. While you could definitely have a picture of a sun or a light fixture shaped as one, we opted for a window as the answer for this one.
- GREEN PLANT – HOUSEPLANT. If you’ve got a house plant or some trees in the backyard, this would be a great place to hide this next clue.
- BLUE JEANS – CLOSET. Jeans are a fairly common clothing item , so hopefully you have a pair lying around in a closet whose pocket you can tuck the next clue into. (If not a picture of blue jeans in the closet works too!)
- PURPLE CRAYON – CRAYON BOX. So, we have our fair share of purple items in the house but opted for an object that’s a bit more generic – a crayon box with a purple crayon in there. If you don’t have crayons, substitute for any coloring item you have in the house (paint, markers, a computer…)
THE POT OF GOLD!
If you have some left over cauldrons from Halloween, grab one and add some gold tissue into it! Then you can add in gold toys and trinket! For our cauldron, we added in some Gold Wrapped Rolo Candy, Chocolate Gold Coins, Toy Gold Coins, and Gold Dig It Toys from Target (I couldn’t find the link, but it’s similar to this one on the Walmart Site: Gold Dig It Toy). Note: it doesn’t come with safety goggles but that might be a good idea. We’ve used some larger kits for other “dig for gem” type toys and they came with the goggles but you can find them separately as well.
We’ve also done smaller cauldrons in the past where each kid got their own cauldron. In these, we added in some candy but also gold shaped bells, gold pony beads, and gold pom poms. Then we had a craft station with some gold pipe cleaners and construction paper where they could continue some creative fun!
THE CLUES
Feel free to use these for your own personal use, mix and match, or add your own! There’s a blank clue set if you just want to use that and create your own!
THANK YOU
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Happy Treasure Hunting!
