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Sinterklaas scavenger hunt ideas for your neighbourhood
Eight tasks you can drop onto GPS points around your street, schoolyard or park in one evening. Everything works with a shoe, a handful of pepernoten and a pen.
Frequently asked questions
Tasks like counting chimneys and photographing a shoe work from age 4 with an adult holding the phone. Rhyming and the chocolate letter task suit children from about 7 who can read the street signs themselves. Mix both types if you have a wide age range.
Yes, as long as you stick to streets with lampposts and skip parks without lighting. Start at 3:30 pm on a weekday or in the morning on a weekend. Give each team a torch or use the phone's flashlight for the pepernoten task.
Make the last GPS point the spot where the sack of presents is hidden, for example behind the garden shed or at a neighbour's front door. Enter the answer to the final task as a code word the children have to say out loud before they get the sack. Keep the route short so you're back before dinner.
Write the tasks as if Piet left clues, without claiming Sinterklaas is at a specific spot. Older children treat it as a themed game, younger ones take it literally, and both can play the same route. Avoid tasks where an adult has to pretend to be Piet in person.
No. The eight tasks below use a shoe from the child's own foot, a bag of pepernoten you probably already have in the house, and paper and a pen. If you don't have pepernoten, marbles or wrapped sweets work for the hiding task.
Count on about 30 minutes for a route of 6 to 8 points. Walk the route once beforehand to check that the chimneys, street signs and tall buildings you refer to are actually visible from the GPS point. Hide the pepernoten right before you start, not the day before.