The Missing Mice

Six children at Ratttlers’ Gulch Elementary had pet mice. Each child brought a mouse to school for Rodent Appreciation Day. The names of the mice were: Nocats, Nibbler, Whiskers, Tiny, Fidget, and Houdini. At recess, a boy named Alexander set all the mice free. Each mouse ran away and hid in a different place. The hiding places were: in the teacher’s top drawer, in a child’s boot, in a child’s pencil box, in a tub of pattern blocks, in a hat, and in a box of yellow rulers.

Where did each mouse hide?

Clues:

1. Nocats’ paws were on some things that were used for math.
2. Nibbler’s hiding place had protected a child from the rain earlier that morning.
3. Fidget stabbed his paw on something sharp and pointy in his hiding place.
4. Whiskers chewed the corners off some report cards in her hiding place.
5. Nocats’ hiding place was full of things that were red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and tan. The things were in the shapes of trapezoids, hexagons, squares, triangles, and rhombi.
6. Houdini was standing on some things that had little black numbers all over them.
7. Tiny’s hiding place had been knitted by someone’s grandmother.