How to Plan a Photo Scavenger Hunt

Instructions:

• 1

  Select an area where the photo scavenger hunt will take place. You may want to restrict it to one place, like the mall, the airport or the zoo. Or you may choose to be less specific and leave it up to the teams to decide where they will capture their photos.

• 2

  Design a fun list of 20 to 30 possible scenarios in advance for each team to capture with their digital cameras. You might include unusual ideas such as posing with the butcher in the meat department of your local grocery store, citing a police officer, escorting an elderly lady across the street, petting a donkey, giving a bald man a haircut, creating a people pyramid, standing next to a statue, sitting in the driver's seat of a fire engine and group hugging a stranger.

• 3

  Create a short list of rules for the game, such as: "Each player must appear in at least three photos," "Bonus prizes for creativity," "Each photo must be printed out in order to be valid" and "The team with the most photos taken in two hours wins."

• 4

  Break the group up into teams. Depending upon how many guests you have, allow for at least two teams of three or four. If you are working with a larger group of people, you can break them up into more than two teams. Encourage each group to come up with a creative name for their team, and in the spirit of getting people to know one another, keep from partnering people with those they already know really well.

• 5

  Get a digital camera for each team in advance. You'll want to be sure to have enough cameras to go around.

• 6

  Give the long list of scenarios to each team, clarifying any questions or concerns people may have so that there is no concern or confusion.

• 7

  Deliver the short list of rules to each team, also clarifying any questions or concerns people may have.

• 8

  Tell precisely where and when everyone is to meet again in order to review the photos and distribute prizes to the winning team. Pick a place where there will be plenty of opportunity for everyone to enjoy the photos and set a time limit that allows each team to get creative, but not so much that there isn't somewhat of a time crunch. A two-hour time limit is a good rule of thumb.