Shamrock Search

My kiddos love to play hide and seek so I decided to use their shamrock art we completed yesterday to play a little game. We cut out all of the shamrock stamps from our paper and then the kids sat in another room while I hid a bunch of shamrocks all over our living room. They loved searching for them all. After they found them, they wanted to keep going on so the kids would hide them from each other and the other kiddo would look for them. It was a lot of fun.

Thread the Tube Game

Today we took empty toilet paper rolls and attached a craft stick to the bottom with a stapler and then covered the tube in decorative paper. Then we threaded a big button with cording (about 15 inches) and put a small hole in the tube and threaded it through there and knotted it. The object of the game is to swing the button up and get it in the top of the tube.

Supplies needed:

toilet paper tubes

scrapbooking paper, gift wrap, or construction paper

big button

cording or yarn

craft stick

glue

stapler

scissors

Valentine Treasure Hunt

I found these cute little wooden boxes at Michael's for $.50 each and I had the kids decorate their treasure boxes with their wood markers. Then I got some conversation hearts and wrapped them in foil (to look like treasure) and hid them. They went treasure hunting A LOT today. Even after the conversation heart candy was gone, they put pretend coins from their cash register in them and hid them for each other to find. We played hotter and colder in order to help find them and then we tried the treasure hunt by giving 3 clues to find them throughout the entire house. It was a lot of fun!

We're going on an animal hunt!

Today, we put away the glue and scissors and decided to go on an animal scavenger hunt. I went to Google images and found 12 animal pictures and put them in a Word document and printed 3 copies of them on card stock. I gave each of my kids a copy of the pictures and cut out the 3rd copy and taped them up in 2 rooms in their own little hidding spots. My son was very excited about this activity and felt he needed to bring his binoculars with him on this hunt.

The kids then went around the house and when they found the pictures, they took the animals and taped it on their animal list. It was actually very sweet to watch as my 5 year old son helped my 2 year old daughter find the animals and put some on her list. We played this MANY times. They even hid them all from me and I had to find them. Fun was had by all.