My neighborhood is having a Scavenger Hunt as part of an Easter Egg hunt for the older kids. I was looking around my office for ideas, but came up woth boring ones - colored paper clip, bag of tea, business card...how challeging is that!! I believe it's ages 8 and up.
I also suggested that if we have enough groups to ask for a canned food to donate...what else would be good to gather on a Scavenger Hunt to donate (that wouldn't be to heavy to carry around)? Would that even be a good idea?
My daughter is having a cookie scavenger hunt at her birthday party this weekend, but I didn't want to hide real cookies because oh the mess! So i made color copies of cookies and laminated them and they will find the cards and then exchange them for real cookies. You could do something like that for the canned food drive. One team could find a "turkey dinner" another a "fourth of july feast" something like that. Good luck!
If each team has a digital camera, it opens a up whole slew of possibilities, because they don't have to take the stuff with them - they can just take a picture (or have the homeowner take a picture if the item is too large, such as a red sofa).
Think of items that kids this age might enjoy:
Any Sponge Bob/Simpsons item
A Twilight Book or DVD
A polkadotted shirt
A pet snake or bird
You can also have "actions" as an item to get pictures of:
Someone who's double jointed
Someone who can touch their tongue to their nose
Senior Citizens kissing
Like I said, the possibilities are endless when you add digital photos to a scavenger hunt.
Good luck!
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Picture of President Obama
1 page from a calendar
an old Christmas card
a birthday candle
a piece of chalk
a key
a bottle cap
a used stamp
Front page of a newspaper
The cardboard center of a paper towel or toilet paper roll
This sounds like fun. I've been wandering around my house looking for things that I would give to kids who knocked on my door. Let us know what you ended up doing.
FUN/RANDOM STUFF:
-nail polish that's NOT pink
- a penny from 1985
- a white crayon (noone uses the white ones do they?)
- a banana peel
- used votive candle
- a receipt from HEB dated TODAY / set a specific date
- a post-it-note with a Easter Bunny drawn on it (someone will have to draw!)
- a pink plastic egg
- 1 piece of chocolate easter candy
- a Chuck E Cheese coin
- fast food ketchup/mustard packet
- a baby wipe -or- a clean diaper -or- a wet diaper
- a baby washcloth
- Valentine's candy/Valentine's card
- an ice cube tray
- a Band-Aid Brand bandaid
TO DONATE LATER (most are light-weight):
- used cookbook (do we all have one that just sits there?)
- used child's book (I would love to give one knowing it'd be donated to a child that doesn't have a book)
- cup o' noodles or Ramen package
- package of koolaid (specify a flavor if you want it harder)
- macaroni and cheese box
- 1 package of oatmeal
- snack size potato/corn chips (the ones that are 3/$1)
- a jar of baby food
- a brand new bar of soap (in the box/wrapper)
What a fun idea!!
I've used this site for hunt ideas before:
