To rectify this state of affairs will help New Year's quests for children, which can be conducted both at home and on the street, both for preschoolers, and for students in middle and even high school. What is it, and how to organize such an event for your offspring - we'll tell you now.
New Year quest: a fashionable trend or an exciting adventure?
Many confuse quests with themed parties with invited leading and pre-compiled programs. In part, this definition can be considered correct. But, nevertheless, the quest does not need to have such a grand scale. For example, to organize New Year's quests for children in an apartment, it is enough for parents to come up with an original script and assignments that will correspond to the age and development of their child. The main goal of this game is to achieve the goal by overcoming obstacles. Most often the plot line of New Year's quests for children at home is developing around the search for treasure, or rather a gift. This idea is optimal for children under the age of 14-15 years, the situation with older adolescents is somewhat more complicated. Here, a banal search for a gift within the apartment will not do. However, let's think together on the organization of quests for kids of different age categories.
Children's New Year quest for preschool children
The smallest adventurers are unlikely to appreciate the brilliant idea of Santa Claus, so the idea of organizing a New Year quest is best kept while the crumb does not turn out at least 4 years. At this age, children are already good at guessing puzzles, folding puzzles - such simple tasks and, of course, the help of adults, will quickly lead them to their cherished goal. Working with a young audience, the main thing is to properly present the information and "warm up" the interest. For example, a letter from Santa Claus with the first task-hint can bring someone from the neighbors, or you can "accidentally" find it under the tree after your mother has ventilated the room.
New Year quest game for school children
Much more opportunities and ideas for organizing New Year quests for schoolchildren. Like the kids, they can be sent in search of treasure in the apartment, and you can fantasize. For example, arrange thematic competitions of two teams on the street. In this case, the task must be invented in accordance with the chosen theme, which can be at all and not New Year's. For example, children from 8 to 12 years will be interested in adventure in the style of Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings. Of course, to spend children's New Year's quests in the street in winter is not so interesting, as the weather makes its own adjustments and restrictions. By the way, recently such events are held in schools. For example, in search of hints, children are assigned whole floors, and in each cabinet they are waiting for different characters, which require the performance of certain tasks, in return for a hint.
The Magic Mirror of the Snow Queen
We will take care of the necessary minor details in advance. In particular, before the game starts, we will create a magic mirror. To do this, we take a sheet of cardboard, cut out the oval from it, on one side we draw a map, which tells how to find a gift. Then, on top of the card, we paste adhesive tape and glue the foil with a glue stick. After that, we cut our mirror into its parts, and on each piece write the task. Also, we will explain the rules of the game in advance and tell you which characters they will be reincarnated in.
Now, when the necessary inventory is ready, and the children are in anticipation of an exciting adventure, we fantasize. For example, you can tell toddlers that the wicked Snow Queen has hidden their gifts, and they can find them only if they collect all the pieces of the magic mirror and complete the tasks.
Then the participants are given the first fragment with a hint, which hints that they will have to pass the test in the flower garden of the sorceress (if the game is held in the school under the garden, you can mean a biology cabinet, at home the garden will replace a plush or cardboard flower prepared in advance). When children get into the "garden", they get an assignment. So you can offer crumbs to make a flower from plasticine or other improvised means, the smallest can just draw it.
After completing the assignment, participants receive a second splinter, which guides them to visit the crow. This important bird asks you to tell or come up with a rhyme, sing a song. As a reward, the raven gives the next fragment with the hint "Find a symbol of royal power" (again, students can be sent, for example, to the teacher's room, and at home - to designate the right place with a cardboard crown).
Arriving at the specified place, the children receive an assignment from the prince and the princess. As an option, you can offer kids to find differences in pictures, fold the puzzle, make beads, decorate the picture. For the errand the children receive the next splinter and go to the little robber. She gives the task for accuracy, for example, knock down the built skittles or a tower of cubes with one blow.
Having coped with the task, the children receive a fifth fragment, directing them to the Lapland and the Finns. The latter will ask the kids to solve the rebus or draw the drawings on the sheet with different zakarlyuchkami. After completing the work, the participants receive another shard and go to the palace of the snow queen (of course, to the refrigerator or to the street).
There are several options: if you sent children to the kitchen to the refrigerator, let them fold a New Year's greeting from magnet letters or draw the Snow Queen on paper, and if the schoolchildren went to the snowy schoolyard, let the snowman blind. After coping with the task, the children receive the last fragment, add a mirror from all parts and get a card that will lead them to a surprise.
New Year's quests for teenagers
The organization of exciting quests for teenagers is not easy, but interesting.
You can spend the New Year quest "find a gift" for teenage children and at home. But at the same time it should be taken into account that at this age the complexity of assignments reaches a completely different level. Tips are better to think up in the form of rebuses, phrases with mixed letters or written backwards, digital encryption.