Follow-the-String Indoor Scavenger Hunt for Kids

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An indoor scavenger hunt for kids is switched up with a little string and letters.

In an attempt to keep bringing the same fun for my younger kids, we just redid this string indoor scavenger hunt to spell your name with George.

Whether its their name, or finding little gems you’ve hidden along the way, it doesn’t matter. But having them find the letters of their name just adds a little fun learning twist.

To begin, I weaved yarn in and out, under and over, our dining room table and chairs.

I pulled the chairs away from the table toward the edge of the room.

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I started the string at one of the room by tying it to a chair.

Then strung it through the chair backs, legs, table legs, and so on throughout the room.

I weaved it so that George would have to step over chairs, bend and crawl under the table to follow the string.

I have letter foam stickers that I stuck to little pieces of paper. (You could just write letters on paper instead.) I made enough to spell his name.

I clipped those letters onto the string. I put them in order of his name, but he didn’t spell his name as he was going. It was done at the end, so the order doesn’t really matter.

From the starting point of the yarn, George ran his hand along the yarn to find his way through the course.

I guess this is more of an obstacle course than a scavenger hunt. But he searched for the letters of his name as he went through.

That was the main rule I had for the activity, to keep his hand on the string so he’d know where he was at (and not skip over to the string next to it and miss out!).

At the end, he spread out his findings to spell his name!

Like I said, we did this a long time ago with Henry, too.

Here’s his version from a few years ago.

During nap time, I set up this simple ‘follow the string’ indoor scavenger hunt for kids.

I strung yarn around the room (a couple of rooms actually).

Looping it through furniture and toys, creating a tangled mess.

I found this string scavenger hunt idea for outside awhile back from Ready. Set. Read! but recently saw another similar scavenger hunt at Having Fun at Home with ribbons.

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With clothespins, I pinned stickers and letters to hunt for along the course of the string.

Henry awoke and instantly began climbing through, over and under the strings.

He wasn’t really sure what I had intended with this mess.

Luckily, during a quick potty break, I explained the rules:

• Start at the beginning of the string and keep a hold of the string.
• Follow the string throughout the scavenger hunt.
• Hunt for and collect treasures along the way.

Henry continued his climbing over and under each string as he came across it.

Crawling under the table where the string took him.

Finding treasures as he came across them.

In the end, the letters spelled his name (in order, but that didn’t matter since he wouldn’t put them down and they got all jumbled up in his hand).

There were also ‘treasures’ of Bob the Builder stickers.

Henry’s been continually playing with his machine (Bob the Builder) stickers as if they were toys.

What kind of indoor scavenger hunt for kids do you love to do?

Another indoor scavenger hunt for kids to do is search for letters and numbers! It’s great for matching upper and lowercase letters, along with practicing counting. Try it!

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