Costume Scavenger Hunt Party

 

Costume parties are loads of fun, but it will be more fun if you combine it with a little Scavenger Hunt. A Costume Scavenger Hunt Party lets your guests enjoy the fun they get from Scavenger Hunts and Costume Parties at once. Here’s how it works.

First, you need to create different characters for each of your guests to pick or assign them each with one. Each character has its own costumes, accessories and even hairstyles. These are the items they will need to put on to look like their assigned characters, but first they have to look for them. A map pointing to the hiding locations for each character should be given to each guest.

Examples of characters are Santa Claus, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jordan and even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart, for example needs a wig, 18th century clothing, music sheets. Michael Jordan needs his #23 Jersey, shorts, basketball while Michael Jackson his shiny coat and pants, wig etc.

Make sure every character has equal numbers of props/costumes.

At the finish line the hunters should have worn all their costumes they have found. When everyone has finished looking, the costume party has begun.

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Pirates Scavenger Hunt Party

 

Make your next party a little less boring than before by throwing a Scavenger Hunt Party. Now you will be the talk of the town because your guests won’t soon forget all the fun memories they had at your celebration. First, you have to decide on a theme. An example is the Pirates Theme.

You should start by making invitations that have the theme design. A cool idea would be a message in a bottle. Place your note in a small bottle, put some sand in it, cover it with cork. The recipient’s name should be on a tag hanging by the bottle’s neck. Design the bottle with skull marks or anything that will make it look the theme.

Have your guests come in Pirate costumes, or better yet create simple costumes for them to wear. It could be pirate hats, printed with a skull and crossbone design, a hanky around their head, or black eyepatches and a hook in place of the hand.

Give them a list of things to look for; objects you hid in different loactions. Point them to the items by giving them a map of the locations. An old cloth map, the one you see in pirate movies would be cool. And since they are pirates, make the objects in keeping with the theme, items that would normally be associated with pirates.

Here are a few examples:

skull, treasure chest, pirate flag, anchor, ropes, goldbars, jewels(fake or course), pearls, paddle, captain’s hook, guns, swords, parrot and gold coins.

It is up to you to set the rules or modify anything to your liking. The finish line should be the party itself where you could eat and talk about the fun time you had during the hunt.

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Church Group Scavenger Hunt

 

Make your church the starting point.

Each team of five should carry a video camera to record the tasks they will do during the course, this will also serve as verification because you are not collecting any stuff in this Scavenger Hunt. The more teams competing, the better.

Geographical and time limits should be set and observed.

 

 

 

1. Get a stranger to recite to you John 3:16 (no coaching)

2. Find a person named after any of the twelve disciples and have him introduce himself on camera.

3. Find a teenager who can sing with you “Amazing Grace”

4. Find a man in his fifties and ask him who is the Bible character that was put in a basket as a baby and hidden along the Nile.

5. Get a stranger to name all three wise men.

6. Find a child to tell you his favorite Bible character and why.

7. From makeshift materials create something that symbolises Christianity.

8. Team members trade shoes.

9. Find a good deed and record it on camera.

10. Seriously now, pray for a stranger.

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Bargain Scavenger Hunt

A fun way of conducting an Adult Scavenger Hunt is, instead of just looking for objects, have your teams shop for items from a list. This Scavenger Hunt will test the teams’ creativity and resourcefulness in certain situations.

It can either be played against teams or individuals. And just like any Scavenger Hunt a location where to do the bargain shopping should be set, as well as the duration of the hunt. A big shopping mall is a good example of a venue since there are a lot of things that can be found there, and not everything is easily located. A specified budget may be observed. But for economic reasons, and for fairness, have the teams bargain shop. For instance, you could have them scour the place for the cheapest necklace or the cheapest coffee. Require a receipt to prove each item’s price.

You can challenge them by listing an item that is usually expensive, say, an electronic gadget. The teams will have a blast sharing their experiences after, and their discoveries of the best places to shop for a particular item.

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Photo Scavenger Hunt List

 

If you’re looking for a great bonding activity for your family reunion, staff retreat, group event or any get-together then this Photo Scavenger Hunt idea is the perfect one for you. All you have to do is to divide the group into even teams, provide them with cameras and their copy of the list they will act out below.

You also have to set the place and time when the game should be over. It is up to you to set the boundaries where they should accomplish the tasks or don’t set any boundaries at all. Nevertheless, you have to keep in mind the safety of each participant, especially younger ones.

 

Have one of your group members photograph each of the following scenes as you act them out. The more creative the better.

1. A rock band.

2. Fashion magazine pose.

3. “With great power comes great responsibility”

4. Fans behind a railing spotting their favorite celebrity.

5. “The tribe has spoken…”

6. Passengers jammed in a subway train.

7. Another day at the office.

8. A scene from the Bible.

9. Drowzy animals in the Zoo.

10. Hungry yet happy.

11. Spell the word “HELP” using every team member as letters.

12. Ballerinas

13. Protest against cafeteria food.

14. Club scene.

15. Alien Versus Predator

Make sure that every team member gets to participate in the acting, so take turns at the camera.

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Spiced up Internet Scavenger Hunt List

internet scavenger hunts don’t always have to operate by giving your scavengers a list of tasks they will accomplish by searching through several websites. Adding a little spice won’t hurt.

Challenge your scavengers by putting their Math skills to the test. It is up to you to up the level of difficulty, but you must be certain that the clues you prepare could be grasped by your participants. Otherwise, instead of it being fun, it’d turn out to be like a punishment.

Below is an example of an Internet scavenger hunt list infusing some simple arithmetic. Try it with your friends and see who gets the correct answer the fastest.

 

 

1. Go to barnesandnoble.com and search for the books “Eclipse”1 and “The Pillars of the Earth”2 and get the sum of their pages.

2. Count all the tracks in the Les Miserables 10th Anniversary DVD and subtract it from the answer you previously got.

3. Add the number of Grammy Awards won by Alison Krauss.

4. Subtract the number of letters of the title of the famous song from Mary Poppins that starts with “S”.

5. Add the baptismal year of William Shakespeare.

6. Multiply it by the number of sons of Adam and Eve.

7. Subtract the cube of the number of “A”s in the word which is Garfield’s favorite food.

8. Go to orchestra.com and find the number of instruments under woodwinds in a typical symphony orchestra then add this to the previous answer.

9. Add the number of all the teams listed on nba.com.

10. Send your final answer to (your email here).

 

1Published August 2007

2Published July 1990

 

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Nature Scavenger Hunt

An awesome idea for a Photo Scavenger Hunt is the Nature Scavenger Hunt. In this Photo Scavenger Hunt, participants don’t only take pictures of things in random but the things that can be seen in nature. This will lead to the further appreciation of the beauty of the world around us. Thus, this is a perfect activity for kids to be engaged in.

Now, you have to know the specific location where you will have your participants perform all the tasks. It could be in your backyard, a park or any open field. You must know what to see in that particular place for it wouldn’t be fun if what you listed for them to find wasn’t present in that area. It follows that you should also consider the time, season and the environmental factors during your Photo Scavenger Hunt.

You must set predetermined points for each object to look for. For example, a photo of a Sunflower is equivalent to only 3 points, if you know it’s prevalent in that area. A dragonfly could be worth 50, considering it is way harder to capture. It is up to you to create the list. Again, remember to consider every factor that needs to be considered before putting any object on the list.

Give each participant/group the list of objects with their corresponding points. When the time you set is up, the game is over and the winner is determined by counting the scores earned.

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Internet Scavenger Hunt List

 

Here’s a list of tasks you can try for your next internet scavenger hunt:

1. Create a Myspace profile of your favorite fictional character, complete with information and photo.

2. Find the difference of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer’s current ATP score.

3. Search for the date the UNITED NATIONS came into existence.

4. Find Kimi Raikkonen’s score when he won Formula One’s 2007 season.

5. Search for the keyboard shortcut for typing the “Double Dagger” (‡)

6. Find a car that you like from www.cars.com, list the type and the cost.

7. Go to movies.yahoo.com and name the number one movie for the week and what it grossed on the weekend.

8. Go to www.barnesandnoble.com and find out the author of the fiction “Heart of a Champion”.

9. Go to www.leicestertigers.com and find out the name of their coach.

10. Download the music sheet for Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”

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Surf’s Up – Computer Scavenger Hunt

A unique way of holding a Scavenger Hunt is through the use of modern technology. Nowadays computers are commonplace. Everyone knows how to operate a computer, search the web, watch a Youtube video, and even create a Facebook account. That’s why using the internet is a fun and brilliant twist to the usual Scavenger Hunt.

Naturally, computers and an internet connection are needed for this hunt. Although, it doesn’t follow that you have to provide all this equipment. If you have a lot of participants and you only have a limited number of computers this could still be possible.

If computer units are limited, you may instruct the participants to make use of a computer at an Internet Café, a public library or anywhere as long as the computer doesn’t belong to them. Well, for this, you have got to make sure that they can’t use their own, to be fair.

On the other hand, you may also require your participants their own computers/laptops to use for the hunt. Either way you just have to make sure everyone has a working computer and a reliable internet connection.

Now, when you’ve got everything set up, you now provide them with a list of tasks to accomplish. This could be in the form of a printed document, or they could access it online, say, send it to their e-mail, in keeping with the theme.

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Indoor Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunts don’t always have to take place in an open space where participants run and race to get the tasks accomplished. Nobody said participants can’t enjoy a hunt without physically racing.

As a party thrower, there are lots of factors beyond your control that could get in the way of your organized outdoor activity. Weather, for one, can be very unpredictable. You never know when there’s going to be a downpour on the day and time you set for the hunt. So instead of engaging people in a fun activity, you get a bunch of bored and irritated guests. That’s just one reason. Another would be that if you or the participants of your hunt are not big fans of the outdoors, then an indoor scavenger hunt is for you. Sometimes a simple lack of open space or accessibility to it does not help. But don’t let it get in the way of a fun-filled activity. You just need a little bit of creativity in order to make your Scavenger Hunt a success.

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