Here are the responses I got. I wasn't looking for an actual place to hide it,
as much as I needed advice on how to run the game. I got some great advice!
Ah - so not a REAL pumpkin (or a real turkey - now that would be a challenge!!) My
first thought was that you would stash a pumpkin from the farmer's market
somewhere... Now I am thinking that your idea is probably a *picture* of a pumpkin
or something similar, which would be easier to hide... Sorry, I haven't done this
before, so I have no helpful hints, but it sounds like fun. Were you planning on
making it a treasure hunt so that one clue leads to the spot of the next clue, or
that all the clues will point to the same place (the hiding place of the
pumpkin/turkey), with the clues going from pretty general to more specific, I would
assume? It sounds like fun - I am in a middle school, but maybe I should try this
as well :-)
How about tucked inside a book? That way you can incorporate a little Dewey
searching skills with the game and your hints could include information about the
book, it's Dewey number, it's subject, etc.
Are you doing a daily contest? Or just one contest that lasts a few days..I
would make a display that stands on the Circ Counter - showing what the
turkey or pumpkin looks like " Can you find Me?" or- "Where in the library
is ..."
- Maybe you should put the first one in a fairly obvious place for the
younger ones - then make others harder: On the edge of the BB.; At the top
of a set of bookshelves; Under a computer desk; On the back of a chair that
isn't readily visible; Inside a featured author's book; Peeking over a
display or the OPAC; In a window; In a magazine that no one has been reading
but that you want to promote; On the Reference shelf behind the reference
work no one ever consults because it is easier to get it on the 'Net; In a
plant.
If you do one that last a few days, you could have daily winners. Then at
the end have a BB that says something like "Great Detectives" and put the
students who found the turkey/pumpkin and where they found it, add some
magnifying glasses and footprints and their pictures if you can. Then come
around Christmas you could do the same for an elf or candy cane.
What about hiding it in your office or where you sit so that the students have to
come visit you??
Do you have a large atlas/dictionary stand that would conceal it? It's hard to
make suggestions when we have no idea what your library looks like.
Sometimes the bottom shelves of my bookshelves are overlooked. I could probably
hide something behind the books on those shelves and it would be lost until
inventory!
I would also think of the least-used area of your library...somewhere you would
like students to investigate more frequently (for me, that would be reference and
biography).
Is your item 3 dimensional or flat? Makes a big difference on where you could
conceal it.
If it's a flat picture/poster, you might conceal it behind an item on a bulletin
board or elsewhere in your room.
Not sure how you have your library set up but maybe you could blend your "picture"
into another picture within your library. Kids have a tendency to film over
pictures, wall items after they have seen them once or twice. If you have curtains
hidden behind a curtain might be fun or maybe you can hide it in the hall way near
the office or even outside on the playground (put it on the underside of the merry
go round or have the janitor put it under the lip of the building) could be fun and
give kids a chance to be a CSI while at recess. Hope this helps.
Beth Davis
Media Specialist
Model Elementary School
Rome, GA
bethdavids@floydboe.net
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his
deep and continuing needs, is good for him.~ Richard McKenna ~
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