Printable Christmas treasure hunt: 24 rhyming clue cards
Twenty-four rhyming clues lead from one hiding place in your home to the next, and the last one leads to the present. Print the cards, cut them out, hide them, and hand over clue number 1.
The clues are AI-generated. The sample clues on the edition pages are fixed examples: every visitor sees the same ones, and every buyer gets the same clues. The full pack costs $9 and is a digital download: nothing is shipped, you print the cards at home.
Pick an edition and read 3 free clues
The pack has six editions. Each one has its own 24 clues, in a tone that suits the person or group the hunt is for. Every edition page shows 3 clues from that edition and a guide to running the hunt.
- Printable Christmas treasure hunt clues for kids: Short, easy rhymes for young children, read aloud by a grown-up if needed.
- Advent treasure hunt: 24 clues, one a day: Riddle-style rhymes with a little wordplay for confident readers. A good fit for one clue a day in December.
- Christmas treasure hunt clues for teens: Dry, teasing rhymes for teenagers who claim to be too old for this.
- Christmas scavenger hunt for your boyfriend or girlfriend: Warm, playful rhymes from one partner to the other. Works for a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife.
- Christmas treasure hunt for grandparents: Gentle, nostalgic rhymes with hiding places that need no crawling or climbing.
- Family Christmas scavenger hunt, printable: Team rhymes for a mixed group hunting together, from the youngest to the oldest.
How the hunt works
- Open the file of the edition you picked in a web browser, print it and cut along the dashed lines. The cards are laid out 4 per sheet.
- Keep card 1. Hide card 2 at the place card 1 points to, card 3 at the place card 2 points to, and so on. The answer key lists all 24 places in order.
- Put the present at the place the last card points to.
- Hand over card 1.
The same cards also work as an advent calendar: give one card each morning from 1 to 24 December and hide a small treat at that day's place.
What is in the $9 pack
One payment of $9 (USD) gets all six editions. It is a digital download: nothing is shipped, and you print the cards at home.
- 6 print-ready HTML files, one per edition: Kids 4-7, Kids 8-12, Teens, Partner, Grandparents, and Family (all ages). Each file is a web page that you open in a web browser and print from there.
- 24 printable clue cards in each edition, numbered 1 to 24 and laid out 4 per sheet with dashed cut lines.
- 4 blank cards in each edition for writing your own clues.
- An answer key in each edition: the clue number, the hiding place it points to, and what to hide there.
- A cover, a how-to-play section and a safety note in each edition.
- A README text file: what is in the pack, how to print, two ways to play, and safety notes.
The name is added by hand. The cover and every card carry a blank "For:" line: print first, then write the name with a pen.
Each edition is laid out for 10 sheets of A4 or US Letter paper. That layout was not test-printed. If a sheet of cards spills onto an extra page, set the print scale to 95%.
The clues are in English. Black-and-white printing is fine.
Get the pack on Gumroad: $9, digital download
AI disclosure
The clues are AI-generated. They are not written individually for each buyer: every copy of an edition contains the same 24 clues. You write the name yourself, by hand, on the "For:" line of the printed cards.
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