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Palustris

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Scavenger hunt
« on: August 20, 2014, 20:41:10 »
Ok, as some folks may know I have been known to write children's stories. I am in the middle of one now and I am stuck. It is set in the mid 1950's and is one of a series about a gang of 10 year old lads and their adventures (a sort of lower class William thing). So, the lads are visiting an old disused quarry now turned into a public park. I needed something to send them off exploring so I thought of a Scavenger Hunt. Trouble is I cannot come up with enough items for them to find. I have feather, gorse flower, daisy, acorn, sycamore key, piece of sandstone, small white pebble, bit of bracken, piece of other fern, match stick and clover. 3 or 4 more needed.
No damage to property or wildlife allowed, so no live creatures or their homes.
anyone got any ideas, pretty please? 
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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 20:52:46 »
Blackberry, bilberries/winberries,  Hazelnut?
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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2014, 20:55:01 »
Should have said, takes place in mid August and the things have to be put in a paper bag.
Thanks Jayb. Hazelnut is a possibility.
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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2014, 21:58:53 »
horse chestnuts (maybe too early), cob nuts, damsons or sloes rosehips , crab apples.
not sure if that would help
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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2014, 22:02:08 »
a sloe, a thistle head, crab apple, rosehip/haw, rabbit/deer dropping (you'd be amazed/revolted at what we picked up as kids! Cowpat frisbee anyone?) or tufts of bunny fluff from near the burrow, bottlecap.

Any of those any good?

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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2014, 22:07:40 »
Mid fifties. Silver paper. discarded in every cigarette packet.

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Re: Scavenger hunt
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2014, 08:31:21 »
Thanks folks that gives me enough to be carrying on with the story.
Only been stuck on it for 30 years!
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