Easter Treasure Hunts

As I had suspected, and indeed had confirmed, M's secret project was indeed a treasure hunt.  What I hadn't anticipated was quite how much had gone into it!  I knew that she'd written some clues and frankly was quite happy that she been doing some writing, but not only had she written clues, she had written them in verse, and then folded them into origami animals!

The clues.

M's writing is really small and neat compared to usual and not only that she's much more consistent in her (correct!) use of lower case and capitals.  Here are the clues:

Come to my room at 9 oclok

Get your hand ready ready to nock

After three nocks there you will find

Another thing similar in kind

Go to the highest room of the house

There you will find a friend of your mouse

Your mouses freind will have something for you

That thing will lead you to something for each of you

This one is the final clue

To lead you to the things for you

Go to the room were we eat

Near to the thing that gives of heat

It is in a kind of box

Gaurded by Felix Fox

The friend of my mouse (a little soft toy that I used to use to teach prepositions) was Bagpuss, who had some chocolates for us as well as the final clue, which led us to the bread bin, where there were two more things that she had made.  There was a little egg for each of A & me, sewn, stuffed and embroidered with an M for Mummy for me and a D for Daddy for him.

The eggs and two of the chocolates.

We were very impressed!

M & K, although M in particular, was most insistent that we needed to do a treasure hunt for them too, as it's a tradition.  Although for K & M doing something once can mean it's a tradition as far as their concerned, in this case though we have done it for several years now.  A & I weren't as organised as M was, so we had to come up with something this afternoon.  Their clues involved decoding a slightly cryptic message that was in braille, following directions to the next clue, a little bit of scientific knowledge to realise that since hot air rises the next clue was in the top room of the house where they found a phone number.  I had phoned my Mum to ask her to help, so she gave them the final clue, which was that the Easter Bunny had had some help from the Tooth Fairy in finding a good hiding place, so they found their chocolate under their pillows.

This afternoon we had a go with a charity shop bargain find I made this week; Taboo for £3.  

It involves trying to get across a particular word or phrase on a card without using the forbidden words that are also given.  Usually it's a team game, but we played it non-competitively and it worked really well.  I have happy memories of playing this when I lived in La Rochelle, with French and German friends.

Finally we watched a film together, which caused my hilarity not entirely intended by the makers.  It was The Swiss Family Robinson and it was the portrayal of the two female characters as generally pathetic and helpless that initially made us rather annoyed, but it was so exaggerated that it really was quite funny.  At the end when the young couple got together and the girl made a supposedly touching speech about when two people love each other all they needed was each other, M wasn't having any of it and said 'That's ridiculous.  They need food and water and air...........and Lego.'