Unique Scavenger Hunt Ideas That Help
November 11th, 2009 | 
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Today I happend to come across a very unique and innovative scavenger hunt idea that not only entertains but also provides a service back to the community. I a nut shell, the Third Level Crisis Intervention Center of Traverse City, Northern Michigan has decided to run a hunt that will see participants answer questions that homeless youth face on a daily basis.
The Scavenger Hunt will be help outdoors where each participant or team will be give a list of things like “find out where a homeless person can take a shower”. Each item will have a point value and in the end, the points are tallied and a winner will be awarded. Along with the hunt is an opportunity to raise money and a prize will be rewarded to the participant/team who gets the most.
Such a unique idea this is. Just goes to show that there are plenty of scavenger hunt ideas and some can be very worthy and more rewarding than winning the hunt.
So get your thinking caps on and see if you can come up with any great ideas that will serve as well as entertain. Post your ideas below or email us at team@scavengerhuntsecrets.com.
Photo Scavenger Hunt Ideas
Why not add a twist to your usual party activities by using some of these photo scavenger hunt ideas. For many years, people of all ages have used various games and challenges to pass the time with friends and family. While many people are satisfied with trivia games, board games and playing cards, others go a step further with scavenger hunts.
Family members and friends grow much closer when they share ideas about the best locations for those winning photos. With as few as half dozen people, divided into two teams (each with a camera) you can let your imagination run wild.
If you live near a metropolitan area you can go to the mall armed with a list of a dozen specific items that are offered in each store. Have the teams take a group photo with one of the members holding each item. Establish a time limit and arrange a place to meet when all the photos are taken.
One of the easier photo scavenger hunt ideas doesn’t involve leaving home. If you have a group of friends over for an evening, divide the group into two teams and give each team a camera. Make a list of items that might be found in the house and challenge the teams to find and photograph all the items in a set amount of time.
The possibilities for great photo scavenger hunts are almost limitless, ranging from photos taken in one room to those gathered throughout the neighborhood. You’ll be thrilled with the fund you can have with an inexpensive camera and a couple of hours of free time.
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Themed Scavenger Hunt Lists
If you are looking for a little excitement for your next get together, why not try a themed scavenger hunt. Choosing a theme makes it easy to come up with a list for the hunt. For example if you pick a simple theme like buttons and bows, your scavenger hunt list could include bows for gifts, bowties and bowtie pasta, two hole and 4 hole buttons and a stuffed animal with button eyes to name just a few items.
Just try it and see. Think of a theme and then list all the items you can think of in just a couple of minute’s time.
Scavenger Hunt Ideas Of The Future
Well Fox and the Simpson’s have certainly put on a winner for their 20th anniversary this year. They have decided to do a good old Scavenger Hunt to help celebrate this remarkable milestone they have reached. To pull this off, Fox have gone all out and stuffed Simpson’s characters all over other prime time shows. And it may not just be the cameo appearances, there are rumours of merchandising showing up in some of the shows.
Could this be the future of scavenger hunt ideas?
Nowadays with access to You Tube, Flicka and the like, it makes for interesting scenes for scavenger hunts, particularly on the internet. Imagine a picture hunt on a service like Flicka where you search for certain keywords then need to find certain photos or drawings. Never has it been so easy to image such scavenger hunt ideas and more importantly pull them off.
Ahh my brain has gone into overdrive thinking about the possibilities.
I’d love to here yours. Either post a comment below or send your ideas to team@scavengerhuntideasblog.com.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt Prizes
Halloween Scavenger Hunt Prizes, what to give the winner as a gift?
You’ve got the list items all sorted, your guests have all confirmed they are coming and the decorations for the night have been put up. Now for the prize for the winner. What does one give on a Halloween Scavenger Hunt to the winner?
There are many choices really. From scary Halloween costumes, to masks, or a photo of a cemetry, but a really memorable prize would be a photograph of them out on the hunt, on a digital camera and printed off whilst the hunt is still on, then framed in a Halloween styled frame. Or you could give the winner goblets, black and red candles, black jewellery, a certificate written in red ink that looks like gross blood. Or why not treat them to a night out on the town.
The choices are endless when it comes to Halloween. Just use your imagination and think about things that you would like to win if you were a hunter on Halloween.
Happy Halloween Hunting 
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Halloween Scavenger Hunt Ideas
So, you’ve decided to have a Halloween Scavenger Hunt. Time is running out and you’re panicking as to how you’re going to entertain all the people attending your hunt.
Being Halloween, there’s no better time than to hold a scary, ghoulish type hunt. If you have run out of time and are unable to buy too many items for your hunters to find, another really great option for keeping them entertained and busy is to purchase cheap throw away cameras, and pick scary Halloween type places and objects around your hunt area for your hunters to find and photograph. Instead of picking the winner, by who has the most on the items list, a prize can be given to the first person or team that manage to photograph all the items on the list you will have written up and be the first back to a particular place still with camera.
The best part about this option, is that once the hunt is over, if you wanted to collect all the cameras you could get them developed send them to your friends and have a great time laughing over all the silly pictures.
If children are attending your hunt, a great way to keep them occupied is buy packets of candy, like snakes, chocolate frogs, and other scary looking foods that only kids love. If children are to stay inside, place items around the house or back yard and have your hunt there. You would be surprised how excited children get, when they are scavenging for stuff in their own yards.
Don’t forget to have some Halloween decorations for the house, and if the weather outside isn’t too great, organize a hunting game inside, for both adults and children.
You could hide items around your house, just make sure nothing can be broken, supply lists to find the items, bring food, like chocolate mousse with wriggly worms in it, and make bright red punch with floating eyeballs in it. There are so many ways your imagination can flourish.
If you don’t wish your house to be the centre of your hunt, find a hall, or pick a restaurant and hold it there. Either way, let your creative side come out and make a hunt to remember.
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Halloween Scavenger Hunt Items
By now you’ve got your Friend list sorted, have written down your plan for your hunt, now all you need are the items.
Below is a list of items that will surely bring the scare out on Halloween…
Plate of gummy worms
Black jelly beans
Skeleton
A broom stick
Witches cone
Black cape
Fake blood
Face paint
Matches
Marshmallows
Acorns
Cross
Fangs
Pumpkin seeds
Spider web
Tombstone
Candles
A dvd of a scary movie
A bible
Twilight books
A cheap crested ring (black)
Green goo
Devil horns
Miniature pumpkin
Black light globe
Bolts
Fake axe
A picture of count Dracula
Plastic sword
Eye patch
An October magazine
A piece of black liquorice
Green gello
Something with the number 13 on it
A house that looks haunted
A skeleton tattoo
A scarecrow
A mustache
Someone named jack
A black button
Something mouldy
A piece of broken mirror
A dead end sign
A sign issuing a warning
A stranger wearing part of your costume
A local monument wearing a witch hat
The front of a museum
A home with tombstones in the front
Something poisonous
Rusty nail
Paper ghost
Popcorn ball
Paper lanterns
Picture of a crow
Toy rat
Fake body parts
Rubber snake
Exploding gum
Giant spider web
Wands
Glow in the dark stars
Warts
Gory severed arm
Fake nose
Rusty chain
Fake knife
Fake skull
Slime
Smoke bombs
Stink bombs
Picture of a dead ghost like tree
Colored contact lenses
Black tshirt with a skull on it
Twilight products
Beetlejuice video
Glow in the dark fangs
Photograph of a cemetery
Spiders web
Scary masks
Black light bulbs
Monster outfit
Zombie costume
Fake skin
Candy corn
Black jelly beans
Chocolate icecream with choc chips
Dead man sign post
Black curtains
Black beach towel
Trick or treat candy
Box of orange sweets
Lantern
Black thong necklace with cross
Scary costume for a dog
Severed head
Photo of a crow/raven
Book “the Raven”
Series of Halloween books
Fake black roses
Black tablecloth or one with spider web on it
Keep out sign
Photograph of a black cat
Photograph of someone dressed as a mummy
Toilet paper
Old newspaper clippings
Obituaries
The dictionary page with the meaning of Halloween
Red and black earrings
A postcard with a witch on it
A wig
Dusty torn boots
Orange basketball deflated
Fake chainsaw
Hammer
Axe
Sound recording of rattling chains
Glow in the dark eyeballs
Toffee
Princess outfit
Pitch fork (fake)
Photograph of the front of a museum
Photograph of a mummy
Fake obituary of a team member
Fake coffin
Book of ghost stories
Flashlight
Bag of black edible snakes
Liquorice
Pillow case for treats
Glow in the dark skeletons
Fake smoke
Dungeon entrance sign
No entry door mat
Fake gun
CD of scary songs
Alice Cooper Tshirt
Black Sabbath Tshirt
Black underwear
Fake scabs
Burnt skin
Photograph of the entrance of a morgue
A picture of a crypt
A broken statue
Fake razor blades
Cowboy hat
Frankenstein mask
Green face paint
Anything that glows in the dark
Ripped clothing
Ball and chain
Glow in the dark stars
Glow in the dark spiders
Decorate pumpkins
Tiny shrunken heads (fake)
Cowbell
Pirate outfit
Sword
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Scavenger Hunt List Items That Work For Your Audience
Preparing a scavenger hunt list needs a little bit of thought. All your guests are going to be extremely disappointed if the scavenger hunt is not list is not prepared right and ready to play. If the scavenger hunt list is too hard or overly easy, your guests are going to give up in the middle of the hunt or decide that it’s too boring!
So, when making your list be sure that you choose things that will interest and excite all the players and not just something that you enjoy. The last thing you want is to choose to have games based around your favorite movie when others may not even have seen it or if they did they didn’t enjoy it.
Do not use clues that are immediately obvious in your scavenger hunt list. That is the easiest way to bore your guests. Give them a bit of a puzzle with some mystery thrown in, a riddle here and a brainteaser there, not too hard and not too easy an you will find that you have a scavenger hunt hit!
Most importantly, remember that in order to make your scavenger hunt successful the ideas should be interesting as well as significant to the audience.
A Scavenger Hunt In Less Than 5 Minutes
Howdy
Today I had one of those opportunities to run an impromtu hunt (thanks to the weather) so I thought I’d shoot a video on how I did it. The hunt took less than 5 minutes to set up and the kids had a blast.
All in all a success I think.
So here’s the video on how I did it (in case you ever need to know 
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Wondering Where the heck to start your Hunt?
Hey Hunters
I’ve been chatting to a lot of you recently and feeling for you when you tell me that you just don’t know where to begin. Check out this little video I put together for you.
And when your done, here’s your link.
Scavenger Hunt Secrets
Thanks and Enjoy.
Brad