Using images to represent letters in your message is another way to create a code. My son is a huge math fan. Another easy way to create coded messages at home is substituting numbers for letters. Number CodingĬode doesn’t always have to be letters. My son picked up a cipher as a souvenir from our Williamsburg visit but Savvy Homemade shares a great tutorial on making your own cipher wheel at home. Be sure to start your coded message with your key code (the letter in which to base your code). Point the key letter to match up to the ‘A’ in the outside wheel and now you can write out your code. Write your message out on a piece of paper then sort out the key letter. The inside of your wheel represents the letter of the message and the outside wheel represents the corresponding code letter. This type of cipher substitutes one letter of the alphabet for another. Most times a common book such as the Bible or a dictionary were used, as it wasn’t unusual to find these books in a home. It can’t just be any book but rather it has to be the same book printing to ensure the page, line and word position match. The premise of a book cipher has you creating a code by providing a page number, line number and word from a specific book for each word in your secret message. This type of code is one we tried during our RevQuest experience in Colonial Williamsburg. Classic Play shares a great step-by-step tutorial. If you don’t have a long sheet of paper you can just create one but cutting strips and taping them together. Can you believe we didn’t have a paper towel roll? That’s usually a staple in our recycle bin but instead we used one of our rolling pins. The kids can create their own code using a paper towel roll, a long string of paper, tape and a pencil. When unwrapped the paper has random letters on it and the recipient can only read the code if they wrap the paper around the same size cylinder used to create the original code. With the paper wrapped you would write your message across the cylinder across the paper. Here are 6 different types of secret code techniques you can recreate with the kids: Scytaleīelieved to be an ancient Roman transposition cipher, a Scytale involves transposing the letters in a message by writing it on a long piece of paper wrapped around a cylinder. It was a great way to understand what the townsfolk went through but it also stirred a love of creating and receiving secret messages.Īlthough our trip to Colonial Williamsburg was great fun, it’s possible to explore the world of spies and secret codes right at home. As members of the Rev Quest: Black Chambers we were given a map to follow for clues, had secret meetings with villages and deciphered a few different types of code.
When we visited Colonial Williamsburg we took on the role of spies. This collection of 6 secret codes for kids is brought to us by guest editor Carrie Anne of.
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