The animals of Frost Village are getting ready for their Frost Fair, and the Fair Key has gone missing. Frost Village Puzzle Hunt is a printable 24-day countdown game for December, or any 24 days. Each day a villager writes your child a letter that holds a puzzle.
How a day plays (10 to 20 minutes)
- Find today's envelope and read the villager's letter.
- Solve the puzzle. Its answer is the KEY.
- Slide the scarf until the gold snowflake sits on the KEY number.
- Each picture of the Snow Code now sits under a letter. Decode where tomorrow's letter hides. A wrong KEY turns the code to nonsense, so every answer checks itself.
Two tracks so siblings play together
The Snowflake Track (ages 7 to 9) is adding and taking away within 50. The Icicle Track (ages 10 to 12) has the four operations, times tables, factors and logic. Both tracks give the same KEY every day, so each child solves at their own level and they decode and search together. One child? Print one track.
A gentle story
Eight villagers write three letters each: Nib the ermine, Alder the beaver, Mabel the badger, Nell the otter, Tansy the hare, Gus the moose, Hattie the mole and Barley the bear cub. There are no holiday figures, so it suits every family, and it works for any 24 days. Type your child's name once and every letter and the certificate greets them by name.
Games mentioned
Frost Village Puzzle Hunt
A printable 24-day countdown: 24 letters, 48 puzzles in two tracks (ages 7-9 and 10-12), and a Scarf Slider decoder.
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