I need to thank the wonderful Mrs Edwards for her help and support in making this happen!
Just before the Easter holidays we set up two hunts: one for F2 and one for year 1 and 2 (with 120 children in each year we had a complex timetable!!).
All the treasure hunts resulted in the Easter Bunny (our head in a onesie!) and her stash of chocolate being found! Yay!
Each class received a letter from a very worried Easter bunny. She had got into rather a lot of trouble with our site manager for littering her eggs all over the playground! She'd been locked away in a small cupboard somewhere... Could we help?!
Year 1&2 had 12 printed and laminated Easter eggs to find on their hunt (beautiful eggs found on twinkl.com). Each egg had a QR code stuck on which when scanned had a clue to read (we wrote our clues into a QR code maker online and then printed them off). The answer to each clue was a letter that spelt out where the bunny was hidden. The most successful classes worked together to find the answer in extra quick time!
In foundation we had a trail of eggs to follow. Egg QR codes gave us a set of instructions to read in order to help the Easter Bunny to complete his jobs. Above we had to help the Little Pigs to build a house of bricks.
Here we had to draw a spider to scare Little Miss Muffet. We also had to fetch Jack and Jill a pail of water and help Insy Winsy down the water wall among other things. The children took turns to scan and read the QR codes and raced to complete each job in time.
At the end of the trail two children from each class were sent off to the Head's office (where the clues led) with the iPad recording a video. On the whiteboard we shared the exciting moment that the Easter bunny jumped out at the children and watched feet shuffling as the chocolate was handed over.
All of the children and staff joined in enthusiastically with this hunt and I'm hopeful it will inspire staff to find a way to use them in their classrooms!
Our year 2 A&T group have already made hunts and quizzes for each other as well as labelling our displays and important places for visitors with bits of information. My personal favourite is when they ask you to check if the Head has turned her light out!
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