Treasure hunt birthday party

Last week was my adorable great nephew Arthur's birthday. I can still remember when he was born, he was a covid baby and and it was a while before I got to see him. Now he's a chatty and cheeky young lad who is so cute and lovable. Apparently, I'm his favourite aunty 😍

I invited Arthur and his family over for dinner over the weekend, and prepared a treasure hunt for him and his little sister. I hid his birthday present in the TV cabinet in the living room. I keep some toys in there for them to play with when they come over. They always open the cabinet and pull out the toys as soon as they arrive. One of them is the orange ball at the back. It's one of those stretchy thingy and they love pulling the strands of plastic. I'm surprised they haven't pulled off all the strands yet.

Anyway, I took photos of all the presents, showed them to Arthur, and told him he had to look for the treasures. He was very excited, as was his little sister, and she kept on shouting treasure hunt, tresure hunt. She babbles a lot and I don't know if she knows what treasure hunt means. I reckon she was just repeating what her brother was saying because she adores him.

Arthur immediately recognised this photo. I keep all my rubber ducks in the downstairs cloakroom, and the two of them always go in there to play with the rubber ducks. Arthur rushed in immediately, and as big brother, he took his little sister with him, because to be honest, she really had no idea what was happening. They saw the packet of sweets immediately and squealed with delight.

Next was Arthur's birthday present. He didn't recognise the TV cabinet, so I had to give him some hints and told him to go look for his toys. He got that immediately and found his birthday present! Another scream of excitement especially when he saw the balloon with his initials on it. And before I could give him more hints, he must have remembered the photo of the egg shape footstool. It's in the corner of the living room and they like dragging that out to play. I think they roll on top of it and pretend to fall off it, typical silly things that kids do. They found another bag of sweeties. More screams!

The final one was a bit difficult. I hid the box of chocolate in my pantry. Sometimes I show them inside when I give them snacks, but normally it's behind closed doors. I opened the pantry door for them to peek inside, but there were too many things in there. I had deliberately put the box of chocolate at their eye level near the bottom of the shelf to make it easier for them to find. It took a while and Arthur eventually saw it right in front of him!!!!

Now with their treasure hoard, the two little ones were busy ripping open the bags and nibble on the sweets and chocolate. It was a fun little game and priceless to see how happy and excited the kids were. I might do this again next year.