no good deed...

I am definitely going momward for Oyster.

Sometime probably more than a decade ago, I made an Easter treasure hunt for my nephew and the little kids next door, primarily this pirate treasure map, which includes various indoor landmarks at my mom's house, back then.

The weather forecast is Craptacular, so, we need to plan an indoor easter egg hunt for the new crop of little kids. Mom wants me to make a new map. Sadly, the original nephew will be in Florida, otherwise this task might've fallen on him. And, maybe it's the puzzler part of my brain, or else the deflation at watching kids solve the map alone too quickly, but, I'm trying to determine if I can devise tasks to slow them down, not sure they're up for sudokus, much less crosswords.

(Says she who can't even draw a new map until she goes home and checks out what new kid-landmarks there might be. The haunted house is missing, the fern wallpaper replaced, the big stuffed frog was decimated by one of the Jack Russell Terrorists, and the skull moved to boston with me.)

Ideas so far include coloring projects, a cooperative project with blocks, and, perhaps, a scary story about the pterodactyl grandma who left her grandchildren to the T-rex when they didn't help with the chores that one time she broke her baby-toe.

Too subtle?

no good deed...

I am definitely going momward for Oyster.

Sometime probably more than a decade ago, I made an Easter treasure hunt for my nephew and the little kids next door, primarily this pirate treasure map, which includes various indoor landmarks at my mom's house, back then.

The weather forecast is Craptacular, so, we need to plan an indoor easter egg hunt for the new crop of little kids. Mom wants me to make a new map. Sadly, the original nephew will be in Florida, otherwise this task might've fallen on him. And, maybe it's the puzzler part of my brain, or else the deflation at watching kids solve the map alone too quickly, but, I'm trying to determine if I can devise tasks to slow them down, not sure they're up for sudokus, much less crosswords.

(Says she who can't even draw a new map until she goes home and checks out what new kid-landmarks there might be. The haunted house is missing, the fern wallpaper replaced, the big stuffed frog was decimated by one of the Jack Russell Terrorists, and the skull moved to boston with me.)

Ideas so far include coloring projects, a cooperative project with blocks, and, perhaps, a scary story about the pterodactyl grandma who left her grandchildren to the T-rex when they didn't help with the chores that one time she broke her baby-toe.

Too subtle?