Randy Cox
Find-It Jar
We made this Find-It Jar for my parents for Christmas. The kids rounded up 40 or 50 little knickknacks from around the house, and we enlisted help from The Internet to come up with crossword-style clues for them. The 30 or so doodads with the best clues went into the jar that was then filled with glitter and sand, leaving a little empty space. I wrote the clues on a card that I then laminated and attached to the bottle.
The idea is that the someone will read the clue, try to figure out what kind of little object it might refer to, then tilt the bottle around until they locate said object in the sand. Alternatively, one can simply try to locate objects first, then try to match them to the clues.
The cool triangular bottle came from a thrift store, and the whatsits were free. The only thing that we had to pay for was the sand.
Find-It Jar
We made this Find-It Jar for my parents for Christmas. The kids rounded up 40 or 50 little knickknacks from around the house, and we enlisted help from The Internet to come up with crossword-style clues for them. The 30 or so doodads with the best clues went into the jar that was then filled with glitter and sand, leaving a little empty space. I wrote the clues on a card that I then laminated and attached to the bottle.
The idea is that the someone will read the clue, try to figure out what kind of little object it might refer to, then tilt the bottle around until they locate said object in the sand. Alternatively, one can simply try to locate objects first, then try to match them to the clues.
The cool triangular bottle came from a thrift store, and the whatsits were free. The only thing that we had to pay for was the sand.