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Spy Treasure Hunt Games

Spy treasure hunt games are not just for fun. They also teach your children important skills such as problem solving, attention to detail, group cooperation, and in some cases, basic research skills. They foster your children&'s imaginations, and they can be played inside on a rainy day, outside in the dark, or on the computer.

Inside
- Rainy days are a perfect time to play spy treasure hunt games.
  
  Rainy days are prefect days for playing spy treasure hunt games. Designate each room in your house as a different country. The adult can be the bad spy who takes the treasure and hides it, leaving clues around the house. The children can be the good spies who find the clues and figures out in which country the treasure is hidden. Give each child a book bag equipped with a flashlight, an Atlas, several disguises, several passports (one for each disguise), a snack, some play money, a notebook, pencil, and if you want to work on foreign language skills too, a handheld language translator. An adult or an older child can be the connection in each country who helps the children find the clues, use the Atlas, and translate the clues. The game can be as simple or complex as you wish. You might even hide a real treasure box filled with costume jewelry or your children&'s favorite treats.
Outside
- A campfire makes a night game more fun.
  
  Outdoors at night is great for playing spy treasure hunt games as well. Make a campfire, following safety precautions and local regulations. Provide notebook, pencils, and flashlights for your spies. Tell them that they are on a Top Secret Mission, and have just been air flighted behind enemy lines. Their mission is to find the prisoner and retrieve the secret document. Of course, the document is in code, so only after they rescue the prisoner and decode the secret message will they be able to find the treasure. Give them three clues to help them find the prisoner. After they find the prisoner, they must come back to the camp to decode the message. Then, they will go after the treasure. Inside the treasure box, pack all the ingredients for s&'mores, which you can make around the campfire while you wait for your back up team to "extract" you from enemy territory.
On the Computer
- Parents will enjoy the computer version of spy treasure hunt.
  
  If you don&'t like nagging your children, use this spy treasure hunt to aid you. Hand your children the laptop. Tell them that they have been given a secret mission, but they have to break the code to find out what it is. Hand them a list of 13 questions and tell them that they must find the answer to all the questions. The questions you ask are up to you, but the letters of the answers must begin with the 13 letters listed below. When they have finished typing the answers to your questions, ask them to circle the first letter of every word to break the code. The answers should begin with the following first letters: C, L, E, A, N, Y, O, U, R, R, O, O and M. Of course, the danger is that they may never want to play that game again!

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