🗺️ The Indoor Treasure Map · Connected Through Play

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🗺️ The Indoor Treasure Map

I hope everyone is staying temperature comfortable. I’m a bit late posting as I was up most of the night with a sick kitty. It’s still incredibly hot here and so I thought this might be a fun indoor activity. Enjoy.

Someone hides something. Someone else has to find it. The catch: the directions can’t use words.

This one is part art project, part puzzle, part family chaos.

You’ll need:

• Paper and pencil (or markers)

• A small object to hide

• Time to draw a map

How to play:

1. One person hides a small object somewhere in the house.

2. They draw a map not a list of instructions, an actual picture map, showing how to get from the front door to the hiding spot.

3. They hand the map to the seeker. No hints. No talking.

4. Seeker follows the map and finds the object.

5. Switch roles.

Variations by Age:

🐣 Ages 3–6: The adult draws the map and the child is the seeker. Keep it to one or two rooms. Celebrate the find like it’s a big deal because for them, it is.

🔍 Ages 7–12: Add a “trap” one fake path on the map that leads nowhere. The seeker has to figure out which route is real. The map-maker has to be sneaky but fair.

🧠 Teens: No pictures allowed. The map must be made entirely of symbols they invent with a legend. The seeker can only use the legend to decode it. Swap and critique each other’s symbol systems.

Share in the comments: Did anyone get totally lost? How long did it take?

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🗺️ The Indoor Treasure Map