Making a rice/treasure box

This is a really cute, fun idea that my friend Shelly told me about. She actually told me about it a year (or was it 2 years?) ago, and today I decided to try it!

Gather some small objects from around the house to use as the "treasures". Here are some that we used:


Place them in a shoebox (I used a clear one because that's what we had available), and fill the shoebox halfway with rice. Mix it all up so that the rice covers as many of the treasures as possible.


Then call your treasure-seekers and have them sift through the rice to see what they can find!



I thought this activity would last maybe 10 minutes, but surprise, surprise! After they found all of the treasures, they both asked me to hide them in the rice again. After the 2nd round, they just sat and played with the rice for another 15 minutes. Definitely doing this again. :-)