Successful scavenger hunt

I must be lonely--3 posts in one day!

We had a successful scavenger hunt tonight, after enduring the "nag time" of homework. It was a nice change.

Being as I'm sick of doing all of the work, and I'm also sick of begging, nagging, threatening, punishing, and yelling at the kids to do work, I decided to try something new. It hasn't ever really worked before, so I wasn't really helpful, but we needed to do SOMETHING.

I printed this out for the kiddos:

Cleaning Scavenger Hunt

**FIRST one done gets a prize! Everyone who finishes will get a prize!

DO the following:

ALL shoes in the shoe basket.
10 toys in your room away.
10 pieces of trash in the trash can.
4 things downstairs put away.
Dirty clothes to the hamper.
Hug and kiss Mom or Dad.

They were positively RACING to get the stuff done. It didn't get all that needed doing done, but we've made a good dent. At least Hannah doesn't have EIGHT pairs of shoes downstairs any more! All of the clothes made it to the hamper, and I got some good hugs and kisses. The kids were rewarded with some mini-peanut butter cups (a true favorite around here) AND the dessert they'd been promised.

Win-Win for all of us!

I'm going to have to try that again! Maybe make up a few different papers to hand out. Hmmmm..... I can see perhaps turning this into a homework scavenger hunt in the future..... Endless possibilities! Yeah!