How to organize a home quest to find a gift for a child?

A birthday for a child is always an enchanting holiday that parents try to turn into an unusual and original event. It is difficult to surprise modern children with the classical organization of the celebration. Therefore, quests are gaining popularity - games with a test of knowledge and ingenuity, the main purpose of which is an independent search for a birthday present. Participation in this event of the guests of the birthday person makes the game as exciting and interesting as possible.

The main task of the quest is to search for the hidden "treasure", which the adults had previously hidden in a secret place. The path to it is indicated by certain clues in the form of encrypted riddles or messages. They lead from one place to another, thereby heating up the interest of the players. The end of the logical chain will be the long-awaited gift for the birthday boy.

A thorough preparation of adults for such an event will help to carry out a quest in an apartment to find a gift for a birthday person as fun and amusing as possible.

First, you need to determine the location of the main prize - a birthday present. It must be hidden in the most careful way so that it is not accidentally discovered by the hero of the occasion or his guests too early.

All fragile and valuable things should be removed from the premises, which in the excitement of the game can be damaged by its participants. Besides, it is necessary to look around and select those places or objects where the clues will be hidden. From them, you should make up a sequential chain, moving along which the birthday person will get to the main goal.

Parents should have a quest scheme, where each clue should be numbered: jumping over one of them, you can lose the logical chain of the game, as a result of which it can go down the wrong path. The first hint to the birthday person can be given in person, sent via SMS or by e-mail, if the birthday person is a teenager. It will look more mysterious. An even more original option would be to present it, for example, by a pizza or flower delivery man. If guests participate in the game, you need to make sure that a pleasant surprise awaits each of them at the end point of the search: a keychain, a chocolate medal, a small souvenir.

You can come up with riddles for a quest at home yourself or take ready-made options from the Internet. The main thing is that they are understandable for the birthday person, but not too simple and obvious. The next task can be encrypted with a set of letters, from which the hero of the occasion must compose a word that is the key to the next clue.

Often, the child's favorite books are used as clues, where among the pages he can find the next riddle. Puzzles are also popular: having collected them, he will receive an image of what he needs to look for next.

Here are some tips for a similar game.

• Go to the kitchen and open the coldest high-rise building (refrigerator).
• Find a "waterfall" in the apartment (a picture of a waterfall or a shower cabin).
• Go to the pantry and find a jar of your favorite jam. Below it is the next riddle. Naturally, the jar with the delicacy does not need to be hidden deeply, it is better to put it in a conspicuous place, but among other types of jam.
• Answer the highlighted question in the crossword puzzle. If you can do it, you will get the next step.

The sparkle in the eyes of a child, his joy when he receives a long-awaited gift, it is difficult to compare with something. The impressions become especially vivid when you need to carry out searches for a presentation yourself. For a gift to be especially memorable, it is necessary to choose it in accordance with the age and hobbies of the birthday person. A present, chosen with love and tenderness, can become his talisman for the rest of his life, reminding in difficult moments of a cheerful and carefree childhood.

The following options are good and useful gifts.

• Tabletop strategy game. It is suitable for all young explorers who enjoy quiet games that require logical thinking. Depending on the age of the birthday person, it is necessary to choose the appropriate level of complexity of such entertainment.
• Piggy bank in the form of an electronic safe. Accumulating your own savings is not an easy and responsible business. The child will understand how adults get the means to provide him with a decent life, after which he will begin to respect their work more. In addition, coding such a piggy bank allows the child to feel like the owner of real wealth. Girls can hide their diaries or baubles especially important and memorable for them there.
• Wax crayons in the form of flowers for girls and cars for boys - another unusual gift that will undoubtedly delight novice artists;
• A more naturalistic gift is a log constructor. They can be used to build miniature villages or individual fairy-tale castles. Such a gift will be appreciated by diligent children with a penchant for design and engineering.
• Girls will appreciate the walking backpack, which depicts the characters of their favorite cartoon. It will perform not only a practical function, but will also be an excellent complement to the image of a young fashionista.
• Suspended "Solar System" will delight those children who are fond of astrology. The design has the most realistic appearance: each of the miniature planets has its own trajectory. In combination with an invisible frame, it seems as if celestial bodies are floating in the air.

The scenario of the quest is chosen by the parents, starting from the abilities and ingenuity of the child. The essence of the game is in hints and riddles that are placed in different places and lead to the main prize, so it is impossible to change the general rules. But it is quite possible to diversify them. Let's consider several options for encrypting tasks.

• Rebus, riddles or puzzles. Having solved and collected them from the notes left earlier, the child receives a key word, which becomes another clue.
• Secret message. Such tasks are suitable for older children, as they require the presence of adults. For example, hints can be written with milk and then dried. To read such a letter, it is necessary to heat a sheet of paper with a message with a match or a lighter. Only after this does the text begin to appear.
• A safer option is to write the assignment on a blank sheet of paper with a chalk or wax candle. To read the message later, you need to paint over the surface of the note with a simple pencil on a hard surface.

Quest is an exciting game with which you can diversify any children's holiday. This intriguing and quite exciting event will be exciting not only for children, but also for adults.

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