FAMILY GAMES

by Papa

Title: The Map Game

Summary:

Someone hides a "treasure" in a room and draws the location on a map.  The other person uses the map to find it.  This is a great game to teach kids how to use a map.

Recommended Age: 3-7

What you will need:

• Sheet of paper
  
• Pencil
  
• Small toy (we like to use a plastic Easter egg)
  

Instructions:

1. Draw a map of a room.  We've used living rooms, family rooms, and dining rooms.  You can even make a map of a few rooms that are connected.  You can use a pen for this.
   
2. You can label the objects in the drawing if you want to.  We find that it's more fun not to label the objects so that it's not too easy.
   
3. The seeker waits in another room where he or she can't see what the hider is doing.
   
4. The hider hides the special toy somewhere in the room or series of rooms.
   
5. The hider draws a X with a pencil where the treasure is hidden.
   
6. The hider gives the seeker the map.
   
7. The seeker finds the special toy.
   
8. The seeker becomes the hider and the hider becomes the seeker.