How to Make a Scavenger Hunt List

A scavenger hunt is a great way to get out with friends or play an educational game-but without a well organized scavenger hunt list your scavenger hunt will soon be forgotten. Picking the right location, and planning well ahead are both important steps, but in the end a good scavenger hunt list will make or break your scavenger hunt. Fear not, these steps will help you make a scavenger hunt list that won't soon be forgotten!

Instructions

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   Pick a location. So you're probably asking how does picking a location have anything to do with making a good scavenger hunt list? The location you pick will determine the items you can search for. For example, if you pick a grocery store, you can search for groceries. If you pick a park, you will have to improvise and may have to place a lot of the items yourself. Look for a location that already has items to find-so you will have to do less of the work!

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   Brainstorm for items. Come up with a good list of potential items you might wish to include in your scavenger hunt. Just type open up a document in Microsoft Word and type up a bulleted list of the items you wish to find. It may help to separate them into categories depending on how difficult the items might be to find: easy, average, or difficult.

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   Design your clues. Find a creative way to organize the clues in your scavenger hunt. You might consider organizing the clues into a cross word puzzle. You can also just keep the bulleted list, and make riddles that describe the clue. Be creative. Use your fill in the blank experience, and maybe even put some of the riddles in Spanish. In your scavenger hunt list you want to find the right balance between fun and challenging.

4. Check the list. Double check the scavenger hunt list and fix grammar and spelling errors. It's always a good idea to take your scavenger hunt list for a test drive. Use your brothers and sisters, or niece or nephew to test out the scavenger hunt list. Make sure the clues aren't too difficult.