Based on Homestead Rescue and/or Maine Cabin Masters. Something like:
- Find the water source.
- Find the rotten sills.
How about some toy tools?
Welcome to the cabin. How long? How much money? Choose where to spend the money on what. Each area of the house has to be renovated, comes with a challenge to find things and choose what to do. Envelope to describe the room, then find another envelope in the room that has the challenge with the choices and the costs. Could do some pictures for what the cabin looks like?
What do they do? They have demo day, then they strip it down, then they sheath it all, then they dress it up, then they hand the keys back.
Welcome here! The family have left with instructions to do…. while you're here.
Or a total budget. One room per day. Find the problems in the room, choose how much money to spend on it, give them options for what it costs. Got to stay within the budget. Give them some toy money. Family judge it at the end?
Things to find hidden one per room:
- Rot
- Termites
- Lost tools
So give them a floorplan for each room, something to find, and some choices about where to spend their money. What does the outcome need to be?
Could give them something physical for each room to arrange how they want it to be?