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?
Blackberry, bilberries/winberries, Hazelnut?
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.
horse chestnuts (maybe too early), cob nuts, damsons or sloes rosehips , crab apples.
not sure if that would help
Nora
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?
Mid fifties. Silver paper. discarded in every cigarette packet.
Thanks folks that gives me enough to be carrying on with the story.
Only been stuck on it for 30 years!