To purchase a kit, please check with the Highsmith website.
If you cannot get the kit you want from them, email Janet Dickey:
jdickey47@gmail.com
(These used to be known as InvestiCats 
Mystery Program Kits)
for Adults Serving Children in Grades 3-5
Kids can be investigators in a program designed
to encourage their participation, observation, and detective skills. They
visit "evidence scenes," and discover clues as a group of approximately
25 players, and then, working individually or in teams, put it all together
to solve the mystery.
The kits provide program hosts with the instructions,
basic graphics and helpful advice to put on a successful mystery program.
Program hosts can adapt and expand from the basics, based on their available
time, funds, staff, etc.
Kits contain:
Complete instructions with checklists for planning
and setting up the program and for guiding players through the mystery.
Master copies of reproducible "badges," "crime-solver
notebooks," and answer sheets for each player.
Props needed and ideas for creating evidence scenes.
- Evidence such as notes and legal documents (with
tips for "enhancing" beyond the basic black and white).
Program promotion materials.
The program can be run at your choice of several
levels
#1. You read from the sheets provided and describe
scenes while handing around
the evidence.
#2. Players discover the evidence you've "enhanced"
at mini-scenes you've created with props you provide. (How-to tips included.)
#3. Actors are used to develop a more theatrical
production.
A script as such is not included. Players are
investigators, not suspects, and do not need to prepare in advance in
order to participate. The focus of
most of the graphics and instructions is interactive play at the second level.
Much is done for you, but there is plenty of opportunity
for you to adapt the program to your needs
and to add your own creative touches.
Available now:
InvestiCats #1: "My Grandma's Gonna KILL me!"
If Wanda doesn't find it soon, she's in BIG trouble.
InvestiCats #2: "Who's a Fraidy Kat?"
Who's trying to scare her into staying away from school?
For examples of the type of evidence graphics
provided in the kit, see the sampler page.
For teenagers, see the Anyone's
Guess
page.
Cost of the kit is just $39.95,
so have your kids join the investigation today!
Last updated 4/26/2011
Copyright 1998-2011 by Janet Dickey
