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Treasure/Easter egg hunt clues/riddles for children

  • 11-04-2017 10:22AM
    #1
    kardarie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭


    Have decided to host hunt for kids but wanted to do it by clues etc. It's gonna be aimed outdoors has anyone any good clues or riddles stuck for about 6/7. Thanks

    Example: you don't have to search very far the next one is where you park the car.


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  • #2
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Search the Bible for 'Chocolate' or 'Bunny', the first to get it will win some money!


  • #3
    The_Valeyard
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    Put them in the middle of the motorway.

    Survival of the fittest.


  • #4
    sareer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭sareer


    Lovely idea! We were also looking at the Easter treasure hunts in Dublin and they are quite dear for a larger family. I checked Pinterest and it offers some nice suggestions like these -
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/455496949792865988/
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/232709505722317594/
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354869645624481511/
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/150448443780856412/ (I love the idea of using little plastic eggs to contain the clues)


  • #5
    biko
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    I usually just drop the kids off at Harrods and let them shop for a while.
    It's usually a big hit with them.


  • #6
    kardarie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭kardarie


    Going doin it diy at home myself. Gonna get the plastic eggs too this looks great. It's the clues riddles I'm struggling at making up?


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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just find the places to hide the eggs and throw rhyming clues together yourself. It's quite easy and I do it here every year. It's much more difficult to try to amend existing riddles to where you are putting the eggs. Kids are quite forgiving with these things.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    kardarie wrote: »

    Example: you don't have to search very far the next one is where you park the car.

    In the driving seat?


  • #9
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Just hide them in relatively straighforward but not completely easy place and let them search.

    Beware of a well-meaning but Viz Modern Parents scenario where all the adults are slapping themselves on the back about how didactic and challenging the game is while the kids have a chocolate goo on them and secretly want to kill you.


  • #10
    Birneybau
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    In the driving seat?

    I imagine it's a reference to the utterly safe car park. Sure, nothing could happen with a bunch of kids running around one of those.


  • #11
    whiskeyman
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    Easter Egg hunt?

    When did this codswallop come on our shores?
    No such think back in my day.
    Just a day to eat as many chocolate eggs as possible with getting a pain in the belly by the end of it.


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Easter Egg hunt?

    When did this codswallop come on our shores?
    No such think back in my day.
    Just a day to eat as many chocolate eggs as possible with getting a pain in the belly by the end of it.

    My kids and grandkids have always done it. We started about 40 years ago.


  • #13
    gramar
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    This egg is chocolate no need to boil it
    Yes you've guessed it, it's in the ...........

    If you find it you're no slouch
    have a look behind the ...........


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Easter Egg hunt?

    When did this codswallop come on our shores?
    No such think back in my day.
    Just a day to eat as many chocolate eggs as possible with getting a pain in the belly by the end of it.
    I'm pretty sure easter egg hunting has been around almost as long as Santa and the tooth-fairy.


  • #15
    fatknacker
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    Oh. Easter egg cvnt is my favourite game!

    "If you want them, don't be fussy, your chocolate eggs are in my...."


  • #16
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Easter Egg hunt?

    When did this codswallop come on our shores?
    No such think back in my day.
    Just a day to eat as many chocolate eggs as possible with getting a pain in the belly by the end of it.

    Yeah, I hate these new-fangled Pre-Christian fads.


  • #17
    gramar
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    fatknacker wrote: »
    Oh. Easter egg cvnt is my favourite game!

    "If you want them, don't be fussy, your chocolate eggs are in my...."

    ..and there I was trying to keep it clean...


  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure easter egg hunting has been around almost as long as Santa and the tooth-fairy.

    Easter egg hunts have been recorded back to the early 16th Century. So, you are right. It's very far from a new phenomenon.


  • #19
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    gramar wrote: »
    ..and there I was trying to keep it clean...

    Hard to keep a chocolatey fanny clean I'd say.


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