Treasure

Yesterday was the home ed early years group Autumn Treasure hunt. I started this last year and it went so well that I decided to do it again!

I simply made a sheet of things to find, with words and pictures so that those who can't read yet can still join in fairly independently and printed out a bunch of copies. I handed out colouring pens so that each thing could be circled when it was found.

The list contained: a red leaf, a brown leaf, a yellow leaf, a conker, a twig, an acorn, a feather, a stone, a pine cone, a sycamore seed.

The kids seemed to have so much fun carrying their wee baskets around the Hermitage of Braid looking for the treasures. Many games were played along the way, such as hide and seek in the wooded areas and pretend-to-be-stuck-in-a-tree where one child climbed a tree and the other children all pretended to be firemen coming to rescue the stuck person and worked together to free them.

It was a very beautiful way to spend a day.