Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Potter House. You know how much my kids love doing the Leprechaun Hunt! I thought at this point they'd be "over" that kind of thing, but they still beg for it every year. Now I find myself working & planning for weeks in advance so I can make codes, ciphers, & clues hard enough to stump them. They've gotten too smart for me.
Each piece of the Leprechaun's rainbow is hidden with a bag (with a cipher clue to the next hidden rainbow piece), & some sort of activity. We do the silliest of activities on St. Patrick's Day.
Canyon hung up the red rainbow piece located on our Lucky Charms Cereal. Inside the bag were green shirts for each of the kiddos to wear. Taya had early morning seminary so she left early wearing her green shirt.
The code in this bag was a battleship style code with coordinates & symbols. It wasn't super hard, but took some time to figure out entirely.
F9, A4, I5, D6, A8, H1, B5 G7, I3, C5, E8
This led them to the writing desk upstairs. Craiger was very proud to find the orange rainbow piece.
Inside this bag was a "build a leprechaun" craft for them to do.
Also inside this bag was an emoji cipher which led them to the popcorn machine in the basement.
🎬 ➡️🛋️📺 🏃🏃🏃🏃♀️ ↘️2⚾️🍃 ⬅️🥁➕🛏️✖️3👀📺🍿🎰
After school they got to open the yellow rainbow piece's bag. It instructed them to make Shamrock Shakes. Taya was able to participate in this one before she set off for work at Chick-Fil-A.
Inside this bag was a Book Key Code that led to the fireplace. I loved this clue.
"Secrets" - 38.20.2
"Chamber of Secrets" - 38th page - 20th line - 2nd word: Fireplace
Inside the fireplace they found another sticker craft for St. Patrick's Day.
This bag also had the "Mary Queen of Scott's Cipher" leading to the piano bench.
Before going for the next clue we ate dinner. . . . which consisted of a rainbow fruit platter, green veggies, green alfredo on spinach ravioli, & mint brownies.
After dinner we were able to play "Don't Eat Pete" (which for some reason is their very favorite game at St. Patrick's Day.)
We also got a new game this year called "Roll a Rainbow." The kids enjoyed this one too. . . mostly because both games involve skittles which are their favorite.
Inside this bag was the most difficult cipher of all, a weight cipher. I had attached letters to specific items in the piano area & they had to weigh them on a scale & compare the weights to the numbers in the cipher. They led them to the bench upstairs & they found the Leprechaun's treasure there.
It was a blast. St. Patty's is the best.
