Spanish Scavenger Hunt

If you’re anything like me, you’re always in the middle of an intellectual pursuit. That doesn’t mean I always LEARN something, but there’s always a curiosity there. Now that I have a daughter, I’m seeing much of the same trend. Learning another language is a good outlet, and so are thinking games. So in my self-proclaimed genius, I put them both together and decided to have a Spanish scavenger hunt.

In all seriousness, I’m far from being a genius. I write articles, not one of which will ever win a Pulitzer. But hopefully I can give you a little advice on how to make something like a Spanish scavenger hunt be fun.

OBVIOUSLY, instead of the clues being in English, put them in Spanish. Did you see that one coming? Since we’re probably going to be working with beginners in the language, we might not want to create long, drawn out clues with verbs and difficult tenses. Instead, let’s have this be a great way to learn some basic vocabulary and pronunciation.

If you’re going to hide a clue on the table, write “mesa” on the preceding clue. Or do colors by putting “rojo” or “roja” (”red” or…um…”red”). Instead of looking for a particular object, they can look around for something of that color. If they go to the incorrect object that is ALSO red, there you have a good opportunity to tell them what that word’s Spanish translation is.

This isn’t that difficult of a game to set up, and not only is it fun for kids, but they’ll hopefully learn something in the process.

Gracias.

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