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Before you go home, make like a pirate, find the X that marks the spot and discover the hidden treasure.
Safety message
For a pirate camp, some areas to consider include:
- First aid kits
- Food hygiene and safety
- Active games, including wide games
- Motion picture licensing for films and TV shows
If you’re going swimming as part of the camp, you’ll need to consider:
- Swimming activity guidance
- Taking part in water activities, including non-swimmers
- General water activity guidance
- Activities near the water
- Taking part in an activity in Class C waters, such as a swimming pool, man-made bodies of water and small lakes
- Water safety (waterborne diseases and immersion)
When swimming, have a responsible adult not directly involved to be a spotter and watch out for hazards or incidents. Be sure to manage the group when near water, keeping everyone safe, including staying safe at water margins and on the water’s edge
Activities
Go geocaching
Make treasure maps. Follow treasure maps. Find the treasure cache. Bring the treasure back!
- Meets
- Requirement 4
Treasure hunt
Improve your local knowledge and map reading skills while hunting for treasure.
- Meets
- Requirement 4
- Meets
- Requirement 1
- Requirement 2
- Meets
- Requirement 2
Treasure chest knotty challenge
Improve your knot-tying skills and work as a team to find treasure.
Hidden treasure
Blindfolded treasure hunters need their friends’ help to make it through an obstacle course and claim the prize.
Preparation
Equipment
- Access to the internet
- Weather appropriate clothing
- Pens or pencils
- Scrap paper
- Cache treasure items
- GPS devices or a device with GPS capabilities such as a smartphone
- Compass
- Paper maps of the local area
- Lists of grid references
- Sealable Containers
- Balloons in multiple colours
- Mobile phones for emergencies
- Rope
- Box
- Treasure for the chest such as snacks, drinks or equipment for everyone’s favourite game
- Washable colour pens
- Objects (for example chairs, poles, boxes, rope, cones)
- Treasure (for example chocolate coins or pretend money)
Resources
What knot
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