Birthday Treasure Hunt

roy_harper

My Mum is in a nursing home in Scotland and is very, very old. There was a big bash there which I couldn't miss. Unfortuantely this meant I'd be late for my grown up daughter's birthday. So I laid a treasure trail for her starting with a message on the phone to find her card and then answer all the clues. My son thought it was a geeky thing to do, but happily big daughter said she was running all over the house giggling the whole time. The last clue was to a cake box, and I was home in time to light the candles.

Fuzzy_Duck

That's excellent, what kind of clues and hiding places did you come up with? I'm planning to have a treasure hunt for a party coming up but have no idea what I'm doing!

roy_harper

Fuzzy_Duck wrote: »

That's excellent, what kind of clues and hiding places did you come up with? I'm planning to have a treasure hunt for a party coming up but have no idea what I'm doing!

Hi Fuzzy_Duck,

I don't have much money, so it was only a few gifts, but the intention was to make her laugh, and the fact that I'd planted them secretly before I went away, she loved.

The phone clue was to find the birthday card = I know she does keep fit to Davina McCall dvd in the mornings, so it was something like:

The first clue is not very hard,under Davina's bottom, you'll find a card.
Then in the card was a reference to an advert on the telly which makes her roll up laughing.
The next surprise is where the Princess tells the Prince to stop putting vegetables here. 'Is perverse!' That was the mattress.
So she only had a box of 50 jelly belly beans wrapped up, but earlier in the year she'd said she wanted 'sweeties'. She loved them.
On that present, which was upstairs, I'd written something like,
Peg it downstairs, but don't tumble. Well she says; 'Peg it' when she means hurry. So I'd hidden it in the bag I use for pegs above the tumble dryer. It was only a book about Cupcakes. And finally the clue to the cake which had candles spelling out Happy Birthday, (candles bought in Waitrose). So all in all it didn't cost much, but she loved that I'd planned it all with fun in mind.
I know there are Treasure Hunt clues that rhyme on the net, some for children and some for adults, but I made it relevant to her interests and things that make her laugh. Geeky, but it worked, even though I wasn't there, she knew I love her.