{"id":3404,"date":"2013-03-26T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:58:48","slug":"birthday-treasure-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"Birthday treasure hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbledybooks.com\/birthday-treasure-hunt\/\">this sweet post on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbledybooks.com\/birthday-treasure-hunt\/\">Bobbledybooks.com<\/a>\u00a0about the fun treasure hunt they had for their brand new 5 year old.<\/p>\n<p>Such fun!<\/p>\n<p>What I love about this is that it&#8217;s great for kids of almost any age, it&#8217;s fun AND the focus is on the enjoyment of the activity almost more than the presents.<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong. I love presents like everyone else does. \u00a0It just seems like, these days, kids are so focused on what they&#8217;re going to get that they don&#8217;t really enjoy any of it.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the treasure hunt. \u00a0You can make it as simple or elaborate as you want &#8211; and it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. \u00a0For your younger sweeties, make the clues with pictures or easy to follow words. \u00a0Help them when needed, obviously. \u00a0Something that may be a no brainer to you might not click with an excited birthday boy or girl.<\/p>\n<p>Make it worth it too. \u00a0Have a longed for gift as the final find or maybe even a fancy birthday breakfast or lunch item. \u00a0Have as much fun creating the hunt as your kids will have searching for clues. \u00a0 You&#8217;ll love it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this sweet post on Bobbledybooks.com\u00a0about the fun treasure hunt they had for their brand new 5 year old. Such fun! What I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[770,127],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-ideas","tag-birthdays","tag-treasure-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}