Treasure Hunts

OH SWEETNESS, GOODNESS & BLISSFUL AMAZINGFULNESS!!!!!! Spring is on its way!!!!! I cannot express more strongly how good it is to drink in the sun, photosynthesise and let my body start to adjust to daylight once more. Is it me or has this winter been a tough one???

A whole group of us met up with a far greater ratio of kids to adults, in the 'almost' spring sunshine!! A couple of us were looking after other peoples children so there really were not your average number of Mums and Dads to kids... it was great. The kids ran in a pack and felt so much more secure... for the first time since the DANGEROUS CLUB FOR BOYS was birthed, we watched with joy as our kids ran, without us, over the horizon - confident and together!

We sat on some picnic benches and I handed out some camouflage notebooks. Please note: this was just a nice touch... your notebooks, if ever you do this activity, do not need to be camouflaged!!

We drew in each child's book, animals that they may find on our walk.... worms, deer, dogs, cows, snails etc.... the drawings were hilarious... my deer looked like a pylon and someone else's squirrel - bore the resemblance of a crab! Art aside, the boys then went on the walk with notebooks in hand, spotting the things we had drawn. If repeated, we would have added helicopter, tractor etc... but who knew we were to stumble across a tractor in the middle of a tiny country pathway!!! (I told all the Parents that I had hired it for the kids.... don't tell them I am liar!!! hehe!!!)

We dug for worms, held snails and really enjoy our romp through the English countryside! At the point of vague fatigue we hid a stack of chocolate eggs (thank you easter, for your early eggs!!!), to which the kids spent a while finding them and a brief time consuming them. 

Today has been a great success - my feeling is that the smallest idea - like a treasure hunt can transform a simple walk and in this case make us look up, down, out and around!