Quest for children at home

How many of you?

Any

How old is the youngest?

Any

What genre?

Any entourage for teenagers for schoolchildren for adults for birthdays mystical for corporate parties for children for beginners based on films with an actor thriller scary action horror fantasy for a large company detective complex non-standard post-pocalypse maniac sports prison robbery romantic erotic

All ages love quests. And when it comes to children's quests in reality, the sensors for squealing, laughter and enthusiasm are off the charts. A child's fantasy world has no boundaries. Children are receptive, ready to be surprised, and in a matter of minutes they find several ways out of the “adult” dead end. This is the secret of the popularity of the new format of entertainment among young explorers and adventurers.

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What types of home quests are there for children?

Our recommendation: for the first time, it is better to take a linear quest , in which the guys will sequentially complete tasks according to the occasion. For example, searching for a gift using notes or using equipment. This type of quest is the simplest. When you successfully complete it, you can try more difficult quests.

Collection quest. Children perform various tasks, collecting puzzles in a chain. In the “Pirate Quest” these will be pieces of the map. Having collected the entire map, the guys will see the place of the gift marked with a cross.
Quest code. A note about where the treasure is located is given to the children immediately. However, it is difficult to read, the message is encrypted. By completing tasks, the guys will collect a code and be able to read the message.
Quest with castles. Locks can be coded or regular with keys. the gift is given immediately, but it is securely locked. To open it, you need to complete all the tasks: puzzles, charades, trick problems.

Whatever quest you choose, after the celebration the children will have positive memories. The main thing is to prepare an interesting scenario and present the quest to the child in an original way.

Choose the theme of the quest, taking into account the gender, age of the child and his interests. Boys will be interested in tasks on the theme of sailors, the computer sphere of robots in the country of pirates, treasure hunters, and girls and their friends will be interested in encryption with the style of princesses, themes of cartoons, fairy tales, animals, and the flower world. This will do a great job of creating the right thematic atmosphere.

How to come up with and arrange a quest for children at home with your own hands

Determine who the tasks will be for: the age of the children, how many there are, whether other adults will participate or, on the contrary, help you (older children are excellent helpers). If there are more than eight children, it is better to divide them into two teams according to ability and age and make two parallel chains of clues that will not intersect, so the seekers will not interfere with each other and there will be enough tasks for everyone. And at the end, prepare a surprise for each team! Until adolescence, it is advisable not to organize competitions and rivalries. Invite dad and grandmothers to join, do a couple of more difficult tasks - they will be pleased to participate, and the children will be prompted if in doubt.
Select a room. Prepare it: remove unnecessary, fragile, valuable - everything that players could accidentally damage in the excitement of the game. On the street, if the area is open (park, playground), figure out how to mark the boundaries of the search so that the children do not run away: stretch a string or draw with chalk.
Look around carefully and choose the places where the quest clues will be hidden: they should not be too obvious to avoid early detection of the clue - then the quest will be shortened and disappointment is inevitable. But not entirely difficult either - corresponding to the age and ingenuity of the child. Select pieces of furniture, small objects, something that appears many times (chair, cup, window sill) - there are several of them in any house, you will have to search everything! Use different rooms, do not forget about the height of children when choosing the height of the hiding place. In open areas (if there will be other people there), make sure that strangers do not accidentally discover parts of your quest. Be sure to provide for the opportunity to receive a hint - for some action (song, dance) or simply a limited number (4-5 for the entire quest).
From the selected places, create and write down a chain of tasks for yourself, from 5-6 hiding places for five-year-olds to 12-15 for teenagers and adults. Give the first clue personally, place it in a visible place, or your accomplice will deliver it to the door and ring the bell. Older children will be interested in receiving a mysterious SMS, a strange photo of some place in the house or a video message on their laptop, or even an envelope from the pizza delivery guy! Using the first clue, children will determine the location of the second, using the second - the third, etc. Example (in the house): lamp - backpack - chair - plant - bicycle - telephone - kettle - pillow - mug - mirror. Example (at the dacha): tree – stairs – swimming pool – sandbox – flower bed – shovel – fence – swing – wheelbarrow – firewood.
Determine the final destination where the gift will be hidden. If there are a lot of children, make sure that everyone gets a small surprise, not just the birthday boy. Badges, tokens, chocolate medals, keychains, slimes are perfect.

We figured out the procedure. For the first time, we recommend a linear quest, in which tasks are completed sequentially. Once you have successfully completed it, you can try other types:

Collection quest , such as the Mystery of the Hieroglyph: completing tasks, children collect puzzle pieces, having received them all, put together the dragon seal and learn the secret from the text on the back. In the pirate quest, it is possible to collect all the pieces of the treasure map only by completing all the tasks on the cards. Draw the map yourself (memorize it, burn the edges a little with a candle), mark the place with the treasure with a cross and tear it into pieces.
Quest code : at the very beginning, provide the children with a note that already says where to look, but the message is encrypted. And they will collect the key to the code by solving the tasks.
Quest with locks (coded or regular with keys). Give the gift right away, but it is locked (perhaps with more than one lock!). To unlock the locks, you need to complete all the puzzles. How to guess numbers? Questions (how many piglets were there in the fairy tale?), mathematical examples (according to the children’s knowledge), tasks with a trick (how many legs do the girl and her pets puppy, kitten, chicken and snake have in total?), props (count the pebbles in the bag, the amount of money in wallet) and even letters (pictures of Donkey, House, Needle and Sock are ONE).

Preparing tasks for children's quests

You can always use a ready-made quest script, prepare the necessary props, print cards with tasks, etc. A creative person (organizer) will take the idea of a quest as an author, come up with his own original and logical tasks, and the result will be a completely new quest.

A few tips for conducting a creative quest at home.

Determine the age and gender of the children for whom the quest is intended. Divide the guys into teams. For example, for girls and boys. If you involve parents and relatives, then women will be on one team and men will be on the other.
Select a room for the quest, remove “fragile things”. You can consider different locations to choose the most successful one.
Determine the starting point and location where the notes, hints and their design will be hidden. It is possible and necessary to make sure that there is a reason for children to move between rooms, and not be inside the same walls.
Think about a set of riddles that will represent the idea of the game. Solving them can be easy or difficult, so for kids it is enough to write 5-6 notes, for teenagers - 12-15.
Choose a safe place where the main prize (gift) will be hidden. Provide small souvenirs for all quest participants, not just the birthday boy, to make a wonderful impression on the children.

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Plot and mechanics

You can turn the plot into reality and have an incredible time with the help of a selection of original riddles. Children will be happy to complete tasks according to the instructions with various puzzles, riddles, and charades. But the quest will be much more interesting if all the tasks are combined into one plot with a sequential schedule.

You can offer the following options for your holiday:

"Treasures of Atlantis"
"Lost World",
“Night at the Museum”
"Follow the compass"
“Secrets of Space”
Fairy tale “The Town Musicians of Bremen” and others.

Come up with the main characters, who will be followed by the quest participants, and the goal that needs to be achieved. But the obstacles on the way are tasks that the guys will complete together. Let's call it mechanics .

If the quest is for little ones, have older siblings help you. Come up with a few more challenging tasks for them so that they will also find it interesting. Current game ideas can be viewed in collections on YouTube channels on the Internet.

Options and locations of hints for home quests

The quest industry is very popular today; they are an excellent replacement for board games. The main idea is that children guess one by one the places where new notes, passwords, tasks are hidden without any instructions in order to test the logic of the participants. Of course, the guys will be happy to rummage through the entire apartment in search of a gift and without notes - just let them! But the task of adults is to ensure that the children do not tear the apartment to pieces. Therefore, you need to create a moderate level of difficulty; this will be an alternative solution for keeping your location and furniture safe and sound. For those who are especially thoughtful, you can choose a city quest, so that the children in general are not involved in indoor locations and inadvertently cause a brownie.

So, where can you hide notes?

sofa,
armchair,
table,
dresser,
pillows,
fridge,
washing machine,
vase,
painting,
carpet,
refrigerator magnet,
Mailbox,
suitcase,
briefcase,
volume of poems by A.S. Pushkin.

Unexpected hiding places:

bottle in the bath (floats in water),
Balloons,
ice figures (freeze water in molds),
candies in wrappers,
box of sand,
cookies with hints (bake in advance, after hiding the note in the dough),
dishes on the festive table.

Options for tips for the youngest children (from 3 years old) can be found here:

Description of tasks

(key places where you can hide hints and surprises are indicated in brackets)

Hint “TV show reversals” ( envelope, plant, tablecloth). An interesting and fun task that will especially appeal to fans of the game “shifters”. Example from the prompt: Caucasian chebureks (Ural dumplings).
Hint “Catchphrases from movies” (newspaper, magazine). To find out where to move next, you need to remember phrases from famous Soviet films.
Hint “Pseudoscientific nonsense” (door, wall). A very exciting task for a sense of humor and imaginative thinking. The task contains well-known proverbs and sayings in which all words are replaced with scientific (or almost scientific) definitions. The result was some pseudoscientific nonsense. Example from the prompt: A person who has ingested ethyl alcohol in an amount exceeding a certain dose is prone to an inadequate idea of the degree of depth of certain types of large bodies of water (Answer - The drunken sea is knee-deep).
Hint “Fairytale announcements” ( jug, fruit). A nice, fun task of ingenuity. You need to guess which of the famous fairy-tale characters is the author of the comic advertisements. Example from the prompt: I offer services for holding fire and pyrotechnic shows. An irreplaceable worker! By inviting me, you will appreciate the saying: “One head is good, but several are better!” (Answer: Zmey Gorynych).
Hint “In the animal world” (mirror, picture, telephone). A fun task of ingenuity: you need to guess which of the representatives of the animal world is most suitable for sayings as mottos. Example from the prompt: “The grave will correct the hunchback!” (camel).
Hint “Family ties” ( plate, bottle). It is necessary to restore the confused words denoting the names of various family relationships.
Hint “Encrypted text” ( napkin, menu, box). There are 4 encrypted phrase options to choose from.
Hint “Dance” (window sill, lamp). Interesting dance quiz.
Hint “Encrypted phraseological units” (table, chair). An entertaining task for imaginative thinking.
Hint “Common letters” ( glass, salad). A task for quick wits and quick thinking.
Hint “Encrypted saying” ( package, bag). Tricky cipher. We need to find a way to read the famous saying.
Hint “Multiplication tables” ( waiter, presenter). An interesting logic task.

Please note: tips 1-8 are written on an A4 sheet, and tips 9-12 are written on half an A4 sheet.

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Quests for quests at home

It is much more interesting to combine all the tasks with one role-playing theme of the event (but not necessarily). Take advantage of what your child dreams of. For example, space adventures. Today, older guys are passionate about video blogs and their favorite idols, use it!

Detectives are racing to find the birthday cake!
School of real superheroes! Challenges for dexterity, strength, intelligence and true friendship!
Find Rapunzel! Rapunzel is kidnapped, after completing the tasks, the guys find the hidden doll.
Expedition to the planet Mars. Space adventures. Initiation into cosmonauts, presentation of tokens.
The Kaput virus infected the computer. We urgently save important files!

It’s easy and fun to include outdoor competitions, ball games, and dance routines in a themed quest. Kids under 10 will love this!

For older guys:

SMS with an anagram that needs to be solved.
Messages on social networks with a code, a rebus, a puzzle.
Photo riddles.
QR codes. Children will use the program on their smartphone, scan the code and find the clue online.
Audio assignments. Record the tips on a voice recorder in advance. Change your voice in a special application. Or prepare an excerpt from a song that hints at the clue.

Notes for finding a gift in the apartment

Tape small notes to the back of the plates. There is one letter on each piece of paper. From the letters found you need to make a word, for example, window sill. It is there that the next note with an interesting task is hidden.
Notes with letters can be frozen in shaped molds. Before you collect the clue word, you need to defrost the figures under running warm water!
Use plastic letters from a preschool set and bury them in the sand. You need to dig up all the letters and lay out the word. It will indicate the location of the next task note.
And it’s even funnier and more interesting to catch letter fish from a small pool. We make up a word and go ahead for a new note!

Puzzles

Create a search map from individual fragments.
Identikit. A portrait of a man is cut into four stripes: forehead, nose, lips, chin.
On the back of the cut picture you can read the clue word where the next note (vase, balloon) is hidden.
On the puzzle pieces there is a lock code and a phone number where you can find out the clue.
A regular set of puzzles. Teams gather for speed for the opportunity to be the first to get a clue.

Careful account

The numbers are useful for guessing the password to the lock. Also, the guessed number can be written in a visible place with another hint for completing the next stage of the quest.

What can be considered:

stacks of coins to guess the phone number,
identical objects in the picture in the room,
steps in the house,
windows in the building opposite,
books on the shelf,
plates on the table,
sweets in a vase.
red and white beans,
soft toys (pillows) on the sofa,
the sum of the numbers that make up the date of birth of the birthday person,
the number of letters in the name and surname of the birthday person, etc.

QR codes

Children really like this original way of obtaining information. You need to install a special application on your smartphone in advance. Through this application you can encrypt a picture or a note with hints. Print out the QR code and attach it to the cabinet, put it in a book, hide it under a plate, etc. Suitable for children from 10 years old.

Puzzles, crosswords, charades, rebuses

In the same topic, you can select tasks in the form of rebuses, charades, and puzzles for children from 5 to 12 years old. The intellectual load will be different, this is understandable.

All participants are given pieces of paper with puzzles. The answers will be words whose first letters will give the next clue.

Look at examples of puzzles, charades, puzzles, and riddles. Based on them, you can come up with your own original tasks.

Mirror test

First you need to find the mirror by guessing the word in the previous note. Then the guys, using a mirror, must read the phrase, which is best written in an ornate font. Otherwise, the quest participants will read it by easily turning the letters over.

Anagrams

Looking at the finished example, it may seem that this is a very simple task. In fact, even adults take a long time to form a new word from the letters of the previous one. Record time and reward participants who quickly completed the task. The composed word can become a hint to the next stage of the quest.

What's hidden in the picture

There are a lot of attentiveness tasks in children's magazines. For example, “Find 10 differences”, “How many animals are hidden?”, “Find 5 fish in the picture, color them in different colors.” On the Internet, similar tasks can be found for children of different ages: very simple for little ones, more difficult for teenagers.

We use emoticons to indicate the name of a fairy tale, film, or song.

There are not so many emoticons, so you will have to use your imagination and ingenuity to guess the names of fairy tales, cartoons, etc. But that makes the task even more interesting! Do not give a large number of encrypted words at once, the children will get tired and lose interest in the task.

Invisible ink

Words in notes can be written with milk or lemon juice. And you can read what is written if you heat the sheet over steam. This method, to be honest, is long outdated. Nowadays you can find special pens with invisible ink on sale. To read what is written on the note, you need an ultraviolet flashlight.

Ciphers

No way without ciphers! It's interesting and exciting. The most popular on the Internet:
dancing men,

Morse code,

cipher by letter number in the alphabet,
semaphore alphabet (using flags),
symbols,

homemade ciphers (your imagination).

Labyrinths

If you want to get more involved, you can make a rope maze (from ropes of different colors and at different heights). It is possible to implement such an idea in a country house, in the courtyard of a house, or on the street. A note with a hint is tied to the end of one of the ropes. A simpler option is with a paper labyrinth. To avoid disputes among team members, it is better for everyone to print out a sheet with the task. Whoever passes first opens the combination lock.

Excavations (Archaeologist)

You will need a large basin with sand (can be replaced with cereals, peas, shredded paper). Bury small Kinder Surprise toys in the sand. One of the toys contains a note with a task and a hint.

Puzzles with matches

It is better to use fireplace matches (large ones) or regular school counting sticks. Tasks with matches baffle even adults! For example, lay out a meter of 13 matches.

Puzzles with buttons

To complete the task you need buttons (lids, round colored magnets, any small objects). Place the buttons on the field. The essence of the competition is that only four lines can be used to separate objects so that they are one in each cell.

Or such a task.

Encrypted Poem

We take any poem. For example, the well-known quatrain of A.L. Barto.

We'll build the plane ourselves, and we'll fly over the forests. Let's fly over the forests, and then return to mom.

Code: 1-2-3 3-3-3 2-3-1 4-5-2 4-2-3

The first digit is the line number at the top. The second digit is the number of the word in the line. The third number is the place of the letter in the word.

It turned out: SALAD

Connecting pictures to get numbers

You will need a sample of numbers to write the index on the envelope. Mentally connect the pictures and get a number.

For example, from this picture you get code 250

Acrostics

We select the verses so that the first letters of each line can be used to read the word. There is no need to highlight it in bold, let the guys think about the essence of the task.

Find the extra or missing item (number)

There are many options: a word or a number may be superfluous.

Check out some examples. Based on them, come up with your own.

big
drawing
grief
driver
naked
tore off
stairs

Changelings

An incredibly interesting task. You need to turn the picture over, look closely and answer the question.

In this picture: “Who stole the cake?” Answer: Indian.

Intellectual tasks are, of course, great. But not everyone can handle two hours of puzzles and puzzles. The guys need active challenges. It’s not at all necessary to run around the apartment and jump. Quite easy to move around. Keep some ideas!

According to the diagram, build a house from chairs, pillows and blankets.
Assemble a model of a hot air balloon with a basket from available materials (balloon, plastic cup, laces).
Assemble fruit skewers according to recipe.
Use your movements to show an object in the room.
Dance Indian dance.

Disco dancer

Let the children have a lot of fun with lively music. You can show dance moves, and the guys will repeat. And then you can start intellectual tasks again, having received another hint. For older kids, a dance battle is suitable.

10+ quests for children aged 4-5 years

Children's entertainment is a whole business industry! An animator, for example, earns as much in an hour as a cardiac intensive care doctor earns in a day. Decent prices these days for quests too. But, I must admit, the topic is interesting. At least the children squeak from all these fortboyards. Quests have appeared in museums, parks, and in every self-respecting baby party company. You can order them for school, at the dacha, or even in the forest. But today we are talking about something a little different. There are specially equipped centers where you come with a group and find yourself in a whole fairy-tale world with its own secrets, secret locks and other mysteries. Most often, quests are developed for older children and adults, but there are also places for kids 4+ to practice their logic and intelligence. We are very impressed by some of the items in our selection. So let's get started.

1. Questopoly on Aviamotornaya (1st Enthusiastov Street) Two quests that will be interesting for both 4+ and 8+: – “Alice in Wonderland” – very colorful, spacious, as many as 10 rooms, including even a mirror maze; – “Run through the Jungle” - active, sporty, with ropes, vines and other monkey joys

Quests for a child’s birthday at home

What types of home quests are there for children?

How to come up with and arrange a quest for children at home with your own hands

Preparing tasks for children's quests

Popular

Plot and mechanics

Options and locations of hints for home quests

Description of tasks

View other ready-made quest kits

Quests for quests at home

Notes for finding a gift in the apartment

Puzzles

Careful account

QR codes

Puzzles, crosswords, charades, rebuses

Mirror test

Anagrams

What's hidden in the picture

We use emoticons to indicate the name of a fairy tale, film, or song.

Invisible ink

Ciphers

Labyrinths

Excavations (Archaeologist)

Puzzles with matches

Puzzles with buttons

Encrypted Poem

Acrostics

Find the extra or missing item (number)

Disco dancer

10+ quests for children aged 4-5 years