Funny Photo Scavenger Hunt Ideas

Famous Faces

• With a camera, you can get more than your 15 minutes of fame when you transform yourself and other team members into celebrities for scavenger hunt items. Instead of a traditional scavenger hunt list of items to grab from around the house or shopping mall, create laughs by making a list of superstar athletes, musicians, politicians and other celebrities, and then task players with coming up with outfits, makeup and accessories to become those people. For more customization, choose celebrities from your local city or town. Use Internet websites such as Famous Why and Who 2, which give state-by-state databases of famous residents (you can also search by zip code, city and type of celebrity on other websites). Increase the challenge by requesting photos in certain places around town, such as “Marilyn Monroe outside of Joe’s Bar” and “the band KISS standing around the Town Square monument.”

Total Transformation

• If your scavenger hunt participants are computer savvy, add a step of graphics software manipulation to the photos on the list. As players start out accomplishing the tasks and images you’ve listed for them to photograph, they’ll be halfway toward winning a prize. The next step for the game is for them to bring their photos into a graphics editor such as Paint, SnagIt or Photoshop and then manipulate the images to bring out the biggest laughs. For a list item of a group photo, for example, you could request that they change the background to something unlikely, such as a rainforest or underwater scene. Other options include transferring participant’s headshots onto the bodies of animals or little babies; the group whose transformed photos get the biggest laughs receives a prize.

Moving Mascot

• Before your scavenger hunt, ask participants to bring along their most ridiculous, funniest stuffed animal. Each team chooses one mascot, who they will feature in all the photos on your list. Create list items where participants must head around your town with their stuffed mascot, placing him in snapshots such as the front seat of a taxi, behind the bar at a pub or on the top shelf at the grocery store. Don’t forget outside options too, such as in the seat at a baseball stadium, peeking into a shop window or looking as if it is walking down a busy city street. With a goal of getting the mascot in every assigned scavenger hunt list item, the winning team is sure to “get the picture.”