I have been meaning to post this for a while but well Real Life has a tendency to get in the way of fun stuff.
We celebrated our Daughters 5th birthday party with an assignment driven treasure hunt. For each completed assignment they would get a clue and combining those clues would reveal the location of the treasure. There was a strong Playmo theme in the assignments although not all of them were linked to PM, still I will share all the assignments, so maybe other can benefit.
Of course we had some Playmo decorations
And a Playmo decorated cake:
For the first assignment they had to make the Playmo farm puzzle.
When completed
They were able to flip it and receive the first clue
They received an actual Playmo Fir Tree and a little piece of paper which stated “-N”. The Clues would be in the form of a rebus.
So the first clue results in DEN (Fir in Dutch) –N = DE (The)
The following assignment was Candy Memory. We placed 20 plastic cups upside down and hid a piece of candy under each. When you found two matching pieces you could keep them. Of course we made sure everyone got the same amount of candy (if you found two matches you were out)
The following assignment was Make Your Pizza. Not really an assignment per se, but it ensured they would only have stuff on their pizza they liked and it always tastes better when you make it yourself.
Then we went on to “Spot the Seven Differences”. I made a tiny Playmo Diorama and made sure there were seven differences. Can you spot them?
We follow that with Handicapped Munching, We used some of my gloves, a hat, a die and a bowl of popcorn. When you rolled a 6 you would get the hat and the glove and you could then proceed to start munching on the popcorn with the “slightly” oversized glove. Here is a picture of the Birthday Girl munching away.
The last assignment was Rescue The Princess. So there was this princess stuck in a maze
They each got a figure (the ones from the cake) and by rolling dice needed to go through the maze opening the treasure chests along the way (making the princess into a real princess again) and finally open the door at the other end.
After all that they had the following rebus:
DEN (Fir) –N = DE (The)
KAT (Cat) K=SCH (yes I made a mistake here) = SCHAT (Treasure)
BIG (Piglet) P=L +T = LIGT (Lies)
SPIN (Spider) –SP = IN (In)
HEK (Fence) H=D –K = DE (The)
KAST (Cupboard)
Of course what followed was a mad dash through the house opening all cupboards. They found their treasure, which had a Special for each of them. After that they ate their Pizzas and we returned them safely to their homes.
I hope you enjoyed this different kind of photostory.
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