Hobbies And Interests
Around-the-Town Hunt
Around-the-town scavenger hunts are aimed at teens with driver's licenses, kids with parents willing to drive them around or adults. All that's needed besides the list and the transportation is a camera or camera phone to take photographic evidence of found items. Around-the-town items might include police or fire stations, library, statues, fountains, parks, hospitals, a favorite restaurant, forms of transportation, someone dressed uniquely, an interesting face, a favorite hangout or anything visually intriguing.
Door-to-Door Hunt
Have kids go door to door collecting small items in a bag or pillow case, making sure they let the neighbors know it's a scavenger hunt and that the items will not be returned. If it's evening, adults should accompany children and at least one child should carry a flashlight. Door-to-door scavenger hunt lists could include items such as paper clips, marbles, seashells, funky buttons, old keys, ticket stubs, hotel bar soap, unmatced socks, balloons, spools of thread or rubber bands.
Mall Hunt
Mall scavenger hunts require transportation and either a camera or camera phone, and nothing is collected except pictures. Photographic items to be collected could include seasonal decorations, a favorite mannequin, photo of a teammate mimicking the mannequin's pose, specific window displays, food from the food court, mall specific decorations (i.e. clocks, fountains), benches with or without weary shoppers.
House Cleaning Hunt
For the house cleaning hunt, give kids a box and a list of clothing items, toys, books and other items spilling out of their closets and toy chests. The gathered items -- choose items they've outgrown or no longer use -- can be donated to Goodwill, the library or a local family homeless shelter. Another option is to make lists of everything the kids can't seem to locate. Give each child his or her respective lost list and send them around the house looking for the items, cleaning up as they go -- but make a game of it, complete with prizes for first list completed, best cleanup and other prizes.
Zoo Hunt
For the zoo hunt, young children use a list of pictures of the animals and receive a star or sticker for every animal they find. For older children, items that they checked off their lists might include names of animals, signs with animal species or types (for example, mammals, birds or reptiles), animals from specific countries, an example of babies and parents, predators or prey.
Beach Hunt
Items for this list might include sandpiper photos, seagull photos, different types of seashells, hermit crabs, rocks, reeds or sea glass. You may choose to have participants either check off items from a list, collect them in a bucket or take photos of items as they are found.