Scavenger Hunt Road Ideas

Scavenger hunts while on road trips make the trip more memorable.

Whether traveling on a long trip or just around town, both kids and adults can get bored in the car. Play various games while traveling, to keep things interesting. Creative versions of scavenger hunts can get everyone involved on either a family outing or a caravan of friends on a road trip.

Family Scavenger Hunt

Make a list of items for the kids to watch for and check off on a sheet of paper while you are driving. Create a specific list for rural driving, with cows, a silo, railroad tracks and a barn as sample targets. For suburban drives, list a church, someone on a bike and a playground. Be creative and even have the kids help you come up with the list. Draw pictures or cut out pictures from a magazine of the items for kids who cannot read yet.

Caravan Road Trip Hunt

Select teams and divide them up by cars. All members of a team ride in the same vehicle. Come up with a minimum of 20 items for teams to find while traveling for the day. Consider where you are traveling as you come up with the list. Possible items might include a menu from a restaurant you stop at, a picture of your team with a bus driver, and a souvenir with the name of the town you drove through written on it.

Around the Town Hunt

Divide into teams and choose items for the scavenger hunt that are around the town or suburb you live in. Include items you have to bring back, take pictures of and video. Give a time limit on how long your teams will be out driving, and penalize points per minute teams are late returning to the starting point of the hunt. Have an impartial judge or judges tally points for each item, picture and video returned.

House Hunt

Have teams drive around the area you live, or play this while on a road trip. Make a list of different types of homes teams must take pictures of. Ideas might include homes with a picket fence, a yellow house, a home with a dog in the picture, and a home built underground.

Most States Hunt

Play this game either in one car against each other or against other teams in a caravan. While traveling down the road, look for the most different states either on car license plates, written on the back or sides of trucks, or on road and business signs. You can either write the state names down or take pictures if competing with other vehicles.

References

• Mom's Minivan: Travel Scavenger Hunt
• Planning Fun Road Trips: Road Trip Games: Scavenger Hunt
• Diva Girl Parties and Stuff: Scavenger Hunts