Summertime is fast approaching. Do you live where summer weather is beautiful and you can spend time outside? Or do you live in an area with blazing heat where you are desperate for some indoor activities? Wherever you live, these scavenger hunts will entertain your little one for a morning or an afternoon when they begin declaring I’m Boooored! These hunts are great for children with and without vision impairments, and are designed to meet a variety of abilities, interests and ages. Keep your hunts for 5-10 items to keep kiddos from getting tired of looking Print and post this list on your fridge or command center for times when you need something to do.

When setting up a hunt, you can leave the items where they naturally live in your house or classroom, or place them strategically. Alternatively, you can have one child hide the items, and the other one find them. To save time and reduce the amount of work to set up an activity, simply tell your child each item they need to look for.

Choose a theme, and have your kids find all of the items. Then you can do the activity.

1. S’more’- marshmallows, graham crackers, chocolate bars, roasting sticks, plates, wet wipes.
2. Sensory Play Water Table: A pitcher (to fill from the hose outside), rubber ducks, cars, scoops, plastic cups, orbeez package. You can fill the tub with water or go outside and use a small plastic pool or a water table.
3. Indoor Camping/Fort: flashlight, pillow, blanket, sheet, favorite toy, snacks, tablet or remote. Set up a fort, buy this teepee, or other indoor tent. Have them arrange their pillows and blanket. They can play with a toy, eat a snack, watch a movie or tv show.
4. Sensory Art: Leaves of all sizes, sticks, grasses, rocks, paper, crayons, contact paper, glue. You can either make a collage by gluing the items, create crayon rubbings by putting items under the paper, or a see through collage. Tape down contact paper, with sticky side up, and have your child put items on the paper.
5. Indoor obstacle course: pool noodles, painter’s tape, jump rope, throw pillows, cardboard box. Set up an obstacle course and time them, race them, have them go on one foot, anything

Bonus Idea:

Field Trip- make getting ready to leave the house fun. Tell your child to find their shoes and socks, sunglasses, water bottle and anything else they typically need to go somewhere. Then tell them they need to find the paper with the destination printed – or a picture of the destination- on it. Some fun locations- ice cream, a soda/fun drink shop (Swig, Dutch Bros), a fast-food restaurant, the dollar store, etc.