Tresure Hunt With My Pirates

Hurricane Sandy gave Ava and Christian two days off school.  This was fantastic for us since we didn't get home from Hilton Head until really late Sunday night.  Pappy spent the night Sunday into Monday which was exciting in itself but then he had to go home and make sure Grandma Hunsberger was taken care of, so we spent the rest of Monday hanging out as a family and just cleaning up and unpacking after the mini vacation from Andy and Michele's Wedding.

So, needless to say, the kids had lots of energy and playing outside wasn't the greatest option at the time.  We decided to play pirates and make up our very own piratey adventure.  We started by making a flag for our ship (Christian's bed was our ship) and by making a Treasure Map.  We even burnt the edges and corners a bit of the map to make it look cooler and more realistic.

 

 

We started off in the BOAT and our goal was to find the Treasure!  There was a pirate after us, a Mean one and his name was Pirate Petey.  While we were out on the water, we came across a message in a bottle.  The message in a bottle lead us to a clue in the tub, "mossy alligator swamp" and there we found a clue that took us to the Pirate Snack Shack where we had golden NUGGETS (tator tots) Ava read all the clues and Christian helped us figure them out.  Finally, the last clue was behind one of the deer heads hanging in Christian's room, (the enchanted forest) and as it read, it lead us to God's Word which was daddy's Bible. 

The kids knew right where daddy kept his Bible so they ran in and there was the final part.   A bag of Treasure and a piece of paper that is pictured below.  There were some golden coined candies and some mints and other piratey treasures.  Then as the kids were eating their hard earned treasure, we read the verse about storing our treasures and talked about where God wants us to store our treasures.  This was such a fun activity and as you can see, the kids were most def. in character. :)  We had so much fun.  After dinner that evening, the kids performed a small dinner theater as they walked Grandma, Pappy and Daddy through the adventure and lead them to the treasure. Every clue we found, Christian would try and read out loud like Ava had earlier but he kept saying in a loud voice, "and now find daddy's bible!"  This made Ava so mad cause he was "ruining" it for her.  So funny.   At the very end we asked them what they were thinking, if they wanted treasure on Heaven or Earth, Ava wanted treasure in Heaven, but Christian said he still wanted candy for now!!!!  We did have so much fun though.