Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt

As a single parent with one child, grocery shopping is really not too difficult. It gives me a chance to hang with my daughter and do some fun shopping. But what about families with three - or even SIX or more - children? Maybe not so fun for mom! I think it would be fun to make a game out of the shopping - a grocery "scavenger hunt" - complete with treasure at the end.

It may or may not work - I suppose it depends on if your kids are going to buy the whole idea. But as long as one or two of them do, there may be hope!

It's best if you live in a safe town and you can trust that your children are going to be O.K. away from you for a bit. Obviously.

But what I'm thinking is you could give each of them a list, complete with a couple wild items that you don't really need, but that will get them wondering. Before you hand out the lists, shuffle the different lists and pick three items at random that will be "treasure" items. If they find one of the treasure items, they get first pick of candy or sweets for the week. Likewise, whoever finishes their list first (with no errors) gets to pick something similar.

On the lists themselves, maybe throw in some adjectives. For example, instead of just writing down "spaghetti", have it say "spaghetti without scurvy". You know, words that a pirate would say. It doesn't have to make much sense - and maybe it's funnier if it doesn't - it just needs to be an entertaining way to keep your kids occupied while doing the shopping.


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