pop.pop.

The kids' christmas present to my mom and aunt was tickets for the whole family to go to the pops. We got my dad something else since tickets to the pops probably weren't on his list. I'm not a fan of plain old unwrapping of tickets, so i made the two of them go on a hunt to find their present. We wrapped an index card telling them to "find 14 out of place items on the tree and unscramble to reveal the location of clue number 2." The out of place items were letters cut from magazines. After a little while (and some hints), they came up with this:

Clue number 2 had a music staff with notes spelling out "dad face." It took us a while to come up with this since there are only 7 letters in the music alphabet. After rubbing my dad's face for a bit, they found clue 3 on the back of a photo of their father. That sent them to the backgammon game in which the tickets were hidden. So much more fun than wrapping them in a box!
As for the pops, they were fantastic! It had been several years since i'd last gone, and i forgot how much i liked it! This might have to become another yearly present! Here we all are...