2022 - Skiving Snackboxes
I had enjoyed making Fred & George’s joke shop back in 2018. I especially like the sing-song manner of the two brothers completing each others sentences for delivering the clues. Additionally, we had received the Lego Diagon Alley in a prior Christmas, which has a great version of their shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. All of this gave me the idea of doing a scavenger hunt using their Skiving Snackboxes to hold the clues.
There were many online DIY versions — that, to be fair, are quite faithful to the original MinaLima advertisement. But we both loved the orange and purple boxes from the Wii Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7. And so I made my own…
In the wood box was the first of these…
You opened it up and underneath the first clue were three chocolate frogs, a box of gummy bears, a box of jellybeans and three macarons in the bottom…
Why yes, we did all gain five pounds that Christmas, why do you ask?
The first clue
The clue was printed on a card covering the chocolate frog…
To solve this clue, you needed to realize that the fireplace mantle that the Lego Diagon Alley sits on has a secret compartment. Inside was the second box…
The second box
The clue inside…
What pet would a Gryffindor have that would be louder than a barking dog? A lion of course, in this case, in the form of a tissue box…
The third box
The clue inside…
Admittedly this is a bit of a red herring, as we had a little Felix Felicis replica on a shelf, but after that doesn’t pan out, and a fair bit of searching, you might notice this large box on my bar that is in the form of a die…
The fourth box
The clue inside…
A number of false starts here as it wasn’t near the Lego version of the Knight Bus. Eventually, she found a bottle of Deadhead rum an old friend gave me in the shape of a shrunken head. In the wood box under it was…
The fifth box
The clue inside…
The hint here was “the old place was smaller than we remembered it!” And so, under the Klutz Hogwarts School building cards, the sixth box was found…
The sixth box
The clue inside…
This should have been an easy one as she was the one who made the candle holder for me, but, eventually, the final box was found…
The seventh box
The clue inside…
The final challenge was finding the present—along with the final card—not in the Kitchen, but in the Kitchen pantry…
The card was on top of her present, a Roomba - to help her “clean up” her new apartment. (She ended up naming the Roomba “Dobby”.)
Merry Christmas
Behind the Scenes
This scavenger hunt wouldn’t have been feasible without my Cricut Air that I got a few years prior. Here is the original prototype I made:
You can see at the top, I had an idea that I would leave the top of the box attached to the sides with the theory that when you lifted the top, it would spread out the sides. That did not work so well in practice!
I recreated MinaLima’s Weasley logo as SVG to use as a cutout for the sides of the boxes.
The outside of the box is orange, with the inside shell purple. I used the orange cutout W’s to paste inside for maximum Weasley logo coverage.
I sent a picture of the cutout W’s as a teaser the week before Christmas…
For the inner boxes, I used red, green and blue paper…
Assembled and ready for filling…
Ready for hiding…
