Scavenger hunts have been beloved with youth, adults, and children throughout the ages. With the modern popularity of "The remarkable Race" and reality Tv shows, scavenger hunts are just as beloved today as they have ever been. They can take a collection of forms, be modified with different rules, and be tailored to a collection of themes, locations, and age groups. They are great for construction community, fostering team work, and generating lots of fun and excitement.
Here are some of the more base types of Scavenger Hunts.
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Classic Scavenger Hunt
This is the primary scavenger hunt where participants are given a list of items to retrieve and bring back within a designated time limit. Examples comprise both base and hard to find items like: a basketball, an 8 track tape, a spork, a coin with a definite date, or a postage stamp. The scavenger hunt consists of a list of the prime objects and some rules. Variations may allow photos of an object to replace the actual object or creative substitutions. The rules may forbid the buy of items or restrict the participants from going to their own homes or malls to gather items. Various points are assigned to the objects based upon the difficulty needful to gather them. Themes can focus the items and add fun to the hunt. For example, a superhero scavenger hunt may need them to bring costumes, comics and other collectibles linked to definite superheroes.
Destination Unknown
In this scavenger hunt, clues lead participants to a definite destination where they find a clue to the next location. Successive clues will ultimately lead them to a definite location where there is a party. Clues may be in the form of riddles or directions to consequent and serve to guide participants to famous landmarks and other locations. Sometimes helpers are positioned at the Various locations to hand out the next clue. In other places the clues may be inexpressive under a park bench or other inconspicuous locations where the group is not likely to take off them.
Find the Pieces Scavenger Hunt
Hide pieces of a jigsaw puzzle colse to the designated game area. This could be a school, a church, or even a local park. Instead of a puzzle you can use any engine or object that has multiple pieces. As an Example, for a Halloween party you could buy plastic skeletons and disassemble them, hiding the bones before the party starts. Let the participants hunt for them and then reassemble the skeleton. Hide batteries, a tape recorder, and a cassette tape with a pre-recorded message describing the next clue. Hide chess pieces, ingredients for a meal, or even clothes and accessories. One of the activities may be to dress up as superman, but to do so they must gather any pieces of the costume which have been strategically inexpressive colse to the game area.
Information Scavenger Hunt
Instead of retrieving objects, or taking pictures, participants in this scavenger hunt must find information. It could be the date on a tombstone, the last item on a restaurant menu, the inscription on a cornerstone, or any other factual data that requires participants to visit a definite location. Victory goes to the first team to correctly gather the most answers or to the team with the most answers in the time limit.
Mystery Photo Hunt
In this scavenger hunt you scout out the location in expand with a digital camera. Take photos of textures, objects, landmarks, unspecified locations, and items from colse to the venue. Tightly crop them so that they are not truly identifiable. The images should be tightly cropped to a small square that only shows a portion of the object. Examples: The last few letters on a street sign, a small portion of a painting n the wall, a statue from a local park, the nose of a sculpture, the estimate 8 from an elevator, the intricately carved frame of a wooden door, the hose of a fire extinguisher, the cope on a cabinet, and others. Participants are then given a printout of all the photos and must recognize each object and where it is settled within the time limit. Online examples of this can be found at: http://www.mysteryphotos.com
People Scavenger Hunts
In Various incarnations, these scavenger hunts have groups hunt for people rather than objects. These could be people that participants know or total strangers. Participants can be required to get autographs, enterprise cards, or photographs with the persons in order to prove they found them. Targets may be in disguise, dressed as unavoidable characters from famous books, or plainly roaming about a large mall.
Photo Scavenger Hunt
In this scavenger hunt, participants must take photos of their group with objects or in definite situations. The scavenger hunt format is a list of situations and objects to be included in the photos. One base disagreement is to comprise an object that must be present in every picture such as a school mascot, a flag, a teddy bear or even something as outrageous as a couch. Participants may be given an instant 35mm camera or a digital camera. Boundaries and time limits can be used to limit the scope and duration of the game. Pictures are variously awarded points based upon meeting the stipulations of the photos and the creativity of the teams.
Pre-Arranged Scavenger Hunt
This is similar to the first-rate scavenger hunt, but the items are settled in the designated playing area in advance. A primary Easter Egg is a base version of this hunt. Participants may be given a normal education to "Find all the wrapped Christmas packages" or be given a list of definite items to find. In one variation, participants are to leave the item in place and merely note the exact location of the item. Alternatively the first team to find the item and retrieve it will get the points. There may be more than one item inexpressive about the play area. You can even hide an item for each team to find. plainly color code the items with a piece of colored yard or thread. Disqualify any team that interferes with another team's items.
Sound Scavenger Hunt
Instead of retrieving objects, students are given a tape recorder or other audio recording expedient and given a list of sounds to record. Sounds may comprise those made by objects, such as a ticking clock, ringing church bell, something announced on the radio or a radio commercial, a message from a person, animal sounds, and many others. The team that collects the most sounds from the list in the designated time is declared the winner.
Treasure Hunt
In a treasure hunt there is one final thing to hunt for rather than a list of items. Successive clues lead to a final destination where the treasure can be found. Teams compete against each other to solve the clues, and consequent them to the treasure.
Video Scavenger Hunts
In this scavenger hunt, participants are given a list of actions and situations that must be filmed on video. Teams film video footage of themselves or other people in unavoidable places and performing inspiring and sometimes ridiculous tasks. Video is regularly 30-45 seconds for each situation otherwise the time to view entries will be too long. This can be combined with community assistance so that some of the items might comprise the team raking leaves, helping man take groceries to their car, etc.
Combination Scavenger Hunts
Combine Various types of scavenger hunts together and tailor them to your theme. In this case the list will have situations to video or picture as well as objects to retrieve, people to find, clues to solve, and facts to discover. Various items will appeal to Various personalities so that every person has fun.
