All about New Year's quests for children

The New Year's quest is a great opportunity to make the process of receiving gifts even more valuable and exciting for a child than usual. The script for such a game is quite easy to compose yourself, especially if it is carried out at home.

A New Year's quest for children is usually a thoughtful sequence of tasks and tasks, which are written on cards hidden in a confined space. Having coped with one of the tasks, the child gets a hint where to look for the next one. The last task in the chain usually indicates where the gifts are hidden. The children's quest can be conducted for one child or for an organized group of children.

It must be remembered that if only children participate, the hiding places cannot be outside their access zone, for example, taller than their height, and also in dangerous places. All names of classified places must be clear to the participants. It's good if, in honor of the New Year, they will additionally be marked with some festive paraphernalia.

On the one hand, the easiest way is to conduct a New Year's quest at home. Parents-organizers can easily use all the secret places and make clear prompts. The children themselves will find it much easier to cope with the search for assignments. However, sometimes the dimensions of the apartment simply do not allow organizing an active outdoor game for a large number of children, and therefore the option with a house should be abandoned.

Always interesting is a quest carried out on the street or even in nature. Long distances and unusual hiding places will require the children to show not only ingenuity, but also physical fitness.

For the quest to take place in a school, library or other public places, appropriate agreements will be required, therefore this type is most often chosen not by amateur organizers, but by teachers and librarians as part of festive events.

Ideas for a New Year's game, in fact, lie on the surface. The simplest quest can be a set of notes from Santa Claus, who decided to test the guts of the guys before giving them gifts. New Year's detective quest can also be associated with the search for holiday gifts: according to the evidence left behind, the guys have to find out who stole the gifts and why, as well as where he hid them.

For example, children will have to help Anna, the heroine of the cartoon "Frozen", find her sister, who owns ice magic, and therefore cope with various "snow" labyrinths and the need to make a word out of pieces of paper ice. It will be quite interesting game to find certain things in the apartment. For example, it will be necessary to collect according to the prompts all the "precious" stones, with each of which there will be a piece of the map, where it is marked where the rest of the treasures are stored.

Composing assignments for children, it is required to be guided by their age, as well as to clearly understand what they can do on their own. On notes for participants 3-6 years old, it is better to place not letters, but pictures. For example, a Christmas tree may be depicted on a piece of paper, and a set of colored paper lies next to it - this means that the child will have to cut out the same figure with his own hands, after which he will receive the next task. Caches can also contain puzzles, mazes and riddles by age, read by parents. For preschoolers, it is not recommended to come up with more than 8-10 tasks.

It is quite possible to add to the set of tasks for younger students rebuses, crosswords, word puzzles and anagrams that require you to assemble words from individual letters... The number of tasks is usually limited to one dozen.

In order for a teenager to really become interested in a quest, it is better to organize it in the format of a detective story, which means that the tasks must be appropriate. Logic puzzles, world map questions, or even math examples are encouraged. E-tasks that require accessing the Internet or reading QR codes are always well received. It is best to prepare about 12-15 cards in total.

Prizes and gifts are selected depending on who the New Year's quest is intended for. Naturally, if parents come up with a game for their child, in the final he will expect exactly what he ordered for the New Year. In the same case, when the quest is conducted for a group of children, instead of full-fledged gifts, there should be universal souvenirs.

For example, for each of the participants, you can arrange a set with sweets, a Christmas tree toy in the form of a symbol of the year, as well as firecrackers with confetti. Always up-to-date ready sets with sweets, as well as sets of stationery with your favorite characters. Children will surely be delighted New Year's books, coloring pages, magazines or paraphernalia for carnival costumes.

In the New Year's quest, the plot is not as important as the tasks are. In fact, when preparing a game for children of different ages, you can take the same scenario: you need to find gifts according to the prompts.But the tasks should not only correspond to the knowledge and skills of the participants, but also be as creative as possible.

If children 5-7 years old are to be entertained at home or in the garden, then you can prepare a quest for them "Notes of Santa Claus". The game begins with the guys finding an empty gift box near the Christmas tree with a note from a kind wizard, which says that he hid all the presents, and the first clue pointing to a computer or laptop is indicated. Having reached the technical device, the participants see two pictures on the screen, between which it is necessary to find a difference, it will become the next clue.

For example, if it was a ball, then players should find it indoors to get the next clue. During the quest, players guess riddles, make words from letters, solve mini-crosswords and collect pictures from separate parts. At the end of the story, the participants get to the place where the gifts are hidden.

When creating a quest for the smallest, that is, kids who are 2-4 years old, you can take the same plot as a basis, but significantly simplify all tasks and reduce their number... For example, a picture of your grandmother might be in the box as a clue. When the child approaches her, she will ask him to sing a festive song, after which she will transmit the next hint.

Also, one of the adults can put on a mask with the image of the symbol of the coming year and ask the kids for help. For example, players will first be asked to collect toy dishes and plastic fruits in a basket, and then arrange the mixed balloons by color. Further, while the adults are inflating the balloons, the guys set the table for soft toys that also want to celebrate the New Year. Then everyone together decorate the room with balls, attaching them to tape.

In principle, for the lower grades of primary school, that is children 8, 9, 10, 11 years old, you can use the same quest scenarios, only slightly complicating the tasks... For example, to prepare the game, you will need a toy watch with a collapsible dial and removable hands, 12 envelopes with tasks, a puzzle consisting of about 100 pieces, as well as 5-6 opaque balloons.

In addition, a large candy made of colored paper, cards with the words "candy" and "tangerine", a toy car and an empty tangerine skin that retains its shape will be required. The plot of the quest tells that an evil wizard broke the clock and hid the arrows and numbers in the house. Only if they are found, the New Year will come.

The first envelope contains a riddle, the answer to which is the place where the arrows are hidden. In the second envelope there is an assignment to dance some kind of funny dance, as a result of which numbers will be found laid out near the tape recorder. If the children guess the riddles from the third envelope, they will immediately receive the number of hours.

The next task may be the assembly of the mosaic, on the back of which it is written where to look for the next number. One of the required parts of the dial, like the envelope, is hidden in inflated balls, the other in candy, the third in tangerine, and the fourth in a toy car.

For children 12-15 years old, you can develop an excellent quest in an apartment to find gifts according to prompts without a special plot, since not every teenager will be delighted with the idea of ​​solving the riddles of Santa Claus. Organizers are advised to prepare 12 cards with colorfully designed assignments in advance. For example, in front of the children there may be a completed sheet for playing sea battle, on the cells of which are written different letters. Nearby is an image of a ship, on the sails of which coordinates are written. By comparing the two blanks, the participants will have to get a specific word.

All cards with tasks are laid out in a specific sequence. Clues are laid out around the apartment along with improvised means that may be needed to solve tasks. If a lot of children will participate in the quest, then it is better to divide them into teams. Previously, you will also have to draw up two sequences and a couple of options for solving each problem.

The right thing to do is to send teenagers seething with energy to solve riddles on the street. Beforehand, it is better to limit the territory and hide the clues in such a way that a random person does not find them. Paper cards are pre-laminated, wrapped with duct tape or hidden in small bags. An additional advantage of such a quest will be to conduct it in the evening using flashlights.

As tasks it is worth using simple riddles, questions-associations with real places and events, as well as physical exercises, the implementation of which is supervised by one of the organizers. For example, players will have to look for a tree with cones, sculpt a small snowman and slide down the hill with a "train". For completing each stage, players can be given letters, of which they are at the end and make up the place where gifts are hidden.

For an overview of the New Year's quest, see the next video.