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

Technorati Tags: Scavenger Hunt Ideas

• Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Homeschool Fun! | Homeschool Bytes – If you are trying to be creative with your homeschool lesson plans, why not consider a scavenger hunt? They are easy to organize and tons of fun for all ages.

• Kids Scavenger Hunt Ideas – Take the Scavenger Hunt inside with this amazing indoor search board game. Can you find a tape measure, an ugly shirt, and something that begins with the.

• Scavenger Hunt Ideas – Our Top 3 | Best Party Games For Kids – Image via WikipediaA scavenger hunt is a game played by two or more people. The game can be played against individual or competing groups. A list of things to.

Technorati Tags: Scavenger Hunt Ideas

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.

Technorati Tags: Scavenger Hunt List

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.

Technorati Tags: Scavenger Hunt Ideas

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

Technorati Tags: black, halloween, hunt, items, Prizes, red, scavenger, style, what to give, winners

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.

Technorati Tags: adults, cameras, children, decorations, finding, halloween, hunt, items, lists, pictures, scavenger, supply

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

Technorati Tags: assortments, blog, categories, halloween, hunt, ideas, items, scavenger

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.

Technorati Tags: Scavenger Hunt List

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 )