moonlight Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hi, Please help me out. We are putting together a murder mystery party together appropriate for 7-11 year olds in our homeschool group. We bought an age appropriate kit online, but the actual "mystery" part is pretty boring. Does anyone have ideas?? What came in the kit is to put together a hand drawn puzzle and find "Harry" within the puzzle. Anything we can use to substitute with?? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolt. Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) I'm thinking Harry Potter themed life size "clue". Figure out an appropriate number of locations (great hall, hogsmeade, platform 9 3/4, chamber of secrets, forbidden forest, etc) and similarly the correct number of villans and weapons. Make the cards by hand using blank business cards. Find real objects to represent each weapon. Decorate corners or certain parts of one or two rooms as each location. (Mark some 'secret passage' type of connections too.) Use printed photos of each villain glued to a hard backing (front and back of the head would be awesome). Use a large foam die and allow one physical step as the "roll" for each child (these are the good guys) to change "rooms" and make accusations. Play like regular clue: put the answer to the mystery in an envelope, deal the rest, and each child carries their "hand" of cards and a paper to take notes. The the kids may have to move around from their official 'spot' to gather the weapons and villains for an accusation -- this doesn't count as "moving". When an accusation is made a kid reveals a card (to refute an accusation) as in clue: but they reveal it verbally to the whole group. Who reveals a card works from the nearest child to the one making the accusation (instead of in turn order). As the adult, you need to be on top of whose turn it is, and whether they really made it to a 'room', and who is nearest to who -- etc. Edited April 7, 2017 by bolt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I'm no help with the mystery...but I may or may not have a Harry Potter themed-party board on Pinterest that you may like... ;) https://www.pinterest.com/couch2okay/harry-potter-themed-party/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocassie Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Scavenger hunt to find the clues to a mystery? Or a few puzzles they have to figure out to find out where Harry is hiding? Could get them outside and using their noggins? I bet there are a lot of fun ideas on Pinterest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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