All the children I know love a good treasure hunt!

And even though they require a little time to prepare, they are not difficult to put together.

The process is explained here step by step in great details. Follow the guidelines to make your first treasure hunt a success.

They also have some great ideas about the format you can use for the clues.

Now, here is our little trick, when you create clues, go through your children’s school books and see what your child is working on so that you can include this material into the clues.

For example, you may give him a cross word with the vocabulary of a particular geography unit he has just learned. Highlight some of the relevant letters from each word to make him discover where the next clue is hidden.

Or use an alphabet code for each letter of the next hidden place. But to solve the code, your child would need to add numbers together (or any other calculation pattern he is working on).

Be creative.

There’s so many ways this material can be used in amusing ways.

Be sure to make it fun and not too hard. And stay close at hand so that you can help when they get stuck.

They’ll have a great time for sure and they, of course, will be learning and practicing at the same time!