Game We Played at Seaside With the Kids

[Mermaid]

I don't know what made me think of this since our two are teens now and haven't played for years, but we used to play this each summer and everyone liked it. It's on the order of a scavenger hunt.

Southern Living magazine had an article once about all the distinctive fences at Seaside. Plenty of photos. I took all the photos and copied them into a "bingo" card format and gave our kids and their cousins/friends/whoever we were with that season/ a copy and let them loose with markers. They had to find all the fences and whomever returned back to the cottage first with all the fences ticked off was the winner. This is a good game to do with bicycles since it can take a while to cris cross Seaside on foot if you're only a kid. When ours were younger, we chaperoned, but as they grew we let them loose on their own. It's not as easy as you think to find all the fences, by the way, so you can easily eat up an hour--good on days when the red no-swimming flag is up, or it's not the swimming season. You can customize this game any way you want.

I suppose any town large enough to explore on foot, like Rosemary Beach, or Seacrest or WaterColor, would be ripe for variations of a scavenger hunt.

 

[iwishiwasthere]

Great idea. My daughter gets sun poisoning after about 3 days so it would be a good option to shopping. I am sure the hunt made for great competitions and memories.

 

[seagrovelover]

Mermaid ....that sounds like funn!!! kids love that kind of thing (some adults do too ;-) ) my only problem is getting my rear end off the beach to put such a thing together!!!!! I tend to get lazy on vacation!!!! and the cold beer....well that doesn't help much great idea though!!!! :clap_1:

 

[Jdarg]

Mermaid- your game made my day!

(Which I sorely needed after taking a beating at Target - I just went in for household stuff, thinking the worst of the T-giving shopping crowd was gone. WRONG!! Sueshore- I was channeling you in my hour of need!!)


I'm going to try an adult and kid version for Grayton. I have all winter to work on it! First thing on the adult list will be to find the A-team pic at the Red Bar! :funn:

 

[Mermaid]

It actually IS a fun game. I guess you could play it in any town that has cottages with names, too. Just use the names instead of fence designs. Although the visuals are good for little kids.

This is the adult version: hop on your bike with a cocktail in one hand and the clue sheet in the other. One gulp for every find. First one to finish drink wins. (Short game in our household. ;-) )

 

[Jdarg]

It actually IS a fun game. I guess you could play it in any town that has cottages with names, too. Just use the names instead of fence designs. Although the visuals are good for little kids.

This is the adult version: hop on your bike with a cocktail in one hand and the clue sheet in the other. One gulp for every find. First one to finish drink wins. (Short game in our household. ;-) )

I will need a designated driver!

 

[iwishiwasthere]

It actually IS a fun game. I guess you could play it in any town that has cottages with names, too. Just use the names instead of fence designs. Although the visuals are good for little kids.

This is the adult version: hop on your bike with a cocktail in one hand and the clue sheet in the other. One gulp for every find. First one to finish drink wins. (Short game in our household. ;-) )

Has anyone thought of a road rally in the area with bicycles instead of cars. I did my first one (with cars) last fall and it was fun.

 

[Mermaid]

Has anyone thought of a road rally in the area with bicycles instead of cars. I did my first one (with cars) last fall and it was fun.

How do you play it? We always have our bikes with us on 30-A. I'm game!

 

[iwishiwasthere]

I will do my best to explain. Each group is given a set of cryptic directions to follow and questions to answer about the trip. Example - N R at curve....go north, take the first right at a curve. After a while you get the hang of it. We had 4 people in our group, and it helped to have extra minds. The person who returns with all the questions answered in the shortest time is the winner. There is a person in our town (I live in a rural community with lots of back roads) who will create one. Maybe there is someone in the SoWal area that would be able to make it. It would be fun for children to do in Seaside, because the area is so contained. If you are further interested, I could scan my directions and pm you what I did. I think it would be a great way to learn different aspects of the area as I tend to spend most of the time on the beach. This site has made me want to see more than the beach. The bayside and Eden Gardens look so beautiful.

 

[Mermaid]

Do you know, with all the building going on on 30-A, you could do a bike rally on it very easily. There are lots of landmarks along the road--let's see, the clock tower at Watercolor (pick up one tourist brochure at WC, ie). When we go down to the beach over the Xmas holiday, we're taking the bikes so maybe I'll try to formulate a hunt. But will you flesh out your answer a little more, IwishIwasthere, to give some guidelines since you've done rallies before?