The Basket Hunt!
March 21st, 2008 Posted in Holidays, This n ThatEach year at Easter, we hide the Easter Baskets..or ahem, the Easter Bunny does. He also does something that my mother did for me when I was a kid. She leaves clues. The kids come downstairs on Easter and find one clue on the table for each of them. For Connor, its like a pun where he actually has to first figure out what the clue is pointing to. Here’s an example;
They call me a box
But I don’t look like one
Inside me you’ll find letters
Check me daily for some
A place to cook
Not in the kitchen
Under my lid
Might be some chicken
I spin in circles but
I’m not a ride
The only passengers I have
Get dried
For a few years for Owen, I’ve printed out pictures as the clue (van, bike, oven, dryer, mailbox, etc). This year, I’ll probably use short words. Each clue takes them to a new place, which has another clue. I try to make this last for a good 20 minutes and have them go back/forth, inside and out. The final clue they search for is where their Easter baskets are!
They love it as much as I recall from my childhood. 