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A hunt is a fun and challenging activity, perfect for a birthday, slumber party, or any party for that matter! Basically, your guests will be divided into teams and provided with a list of items to gather (or places to visit) within a certain amount of time. If you and your guests will be a small group, you can fun going out as one group together. Sometimes hunts follow a specific theme, such as a
Halloween theme scavenger hunt. Types of HuntsFirst, decide what TYPE of hunt you’d like to have. Will it be all at one location? Will it be on foot? Will it be involve driving around? The type will determine what items will go on your list.
Scavenger Hunts at One Location Suppose you want to contain the hunt to your house or backyard. In that case, you’ll probably have something more like a
treasure hunt
, with clues leading teams from one location to the next to gather an object or do a task.
Scavenger Hunts On Wheels These hunts will require a driver for each team, (preferably an adult so the kids can have fun without worrying about being careful driving!).
What to HuntAfter you decide on your type of hunt, next decide on what your guests will be hunting for. Some ideas …
Make a list of things for the teams to collect, such as a
Hint: Be sure to give the team a bag to put all these goodies in!
OR…
Arm your teams with a digital camera and tell them to collect photos of their group doing these things: Ideas for video scavenger hunts, in addition to the photo ideas, could be:
Take this idea a step further by giving teams clues as to where to go for their photos – such as take a photo in front of the golden arches (which means McDonalds).
Hint: write the list of items down in a different order for each team. That way they won’t all be going to the same places at the same time!
OR…
Let the teams use their imagination to collect items. Instead of giving a list of specific things, give ideas. For example:
Another twist on this would be to have the teams find something for each letter of the alphabet – something that starts with A, something that starts with B, etc.
The Winners!
Give a nice long list of items to gather (twenty to twenty five would be great, but you can never have too many!). Make some of the items really challenging.
Then, give the teams some time to do the scavenger hunt (an hour works great for hunts on foot, two hours at the very most for hunts that require driving). In case a team returns early, have some fun things for them to do while waiting for the others.
Before sending the teams out, tell them what time to return. They should return at that time with whatever items they’ve gathered. The team that has done the most off their list wins!
As a variation, you can assign points to different items on the list – for example gathering a penny is worth 1 point, but a dime from the year 2000 is worth 5 points, etc. The harder to find/achieve items are worth more points.
More IdeasHere are some fun hunts:Have some more scavenger hunt ideas to add? Please share them! Ideas from our visitors:
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