Materials
You don’t need a list of people to find, but if you want to make it easier for youth, give them a list
Scavenger Hunt Objective
Find the Teachers, counselors, or church members
How to Play
1. All the teachers are assigned a point value. Including negative numbers! Make them crazy numbers and they can be randomly assigned. You may wish to assign the highest value to someone in a very difficult to find location and the highest negative number to someone in a very obvious location (in the open).
2. Choose a crowded mall, or a local park for the scavenger hunt
3. The teachers / councelors / or church members then go hide. Some might may even be disguised.
4. The youth then go in search of the counselors with a piece of paper and a pen. They work best in groups of 4 or 5. They must write the name of the person they found and the location they found them. If you want to ensure the youth actually found the person, have the person autograph the paper. Of course in the process of autographing a group’s sheet, the hidden person may accidentally reveal themselves to another group.
5. After the game, you tally up the points and give out a crazy prize for the winners.
Variation
Teachers can assign the group a wild and wacky task before signing the piece of paper.
See Conducting Scavenger Hunts for help, Hints, Safety Considerations, Rules, and other useful information to make your scavenger hunt a wild success!
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