Video Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt Ideas
Video Scavenger Hunt:
This is one of the most popular party games and one of my personal favorites. The reason I love Video Scavenger Hunt is that, no matter how many times you host/attend a party where this is played, the game is always different.
Divide the guests into teams. Each team must have a video camera and a tape (in your invitations, you can ask guests to bring these supplies). The teams compete to be the first to return to the spot of origin with a videotape that shows them completing every task from a list
provided in advance. You may also include this list in your invitation. (You may want to set up folding chairs, theater style, in front of your TV. Tie a couple of balloon bouquets to the chairs.)
Your list of required stunts and activities to be videotaped by the teams can be as creative as you want. The list should contain no more than 15 or 20 stunts because each group/team will have only an hour and half to videotape as many as they can.
Here are some ideas:
One of the members of the team standing in front of (or sitting on) a statue.
Several members of the team joining a street entertainer in his/her act.
A stranger singing the national anthem.
One or more members of a team standing under a public clock at an exact time (such as 8:23 p.m.)
A member of the team singing a 70s song on a stage.
A member of the team singing "I Wish I Were an Oscar Meyer Wiener" while standing in the hot dog section of a local grocery store.
A member of the team standing on a surfboard.
Any stranger from the state of (pick a state other than your own).
Depending on the time of the year members of the team … standing in front of a lighted outdoor Christmas tree, waving an American flag, offering Valentine's candy from a heart-shaped box, carrying an Easter basket while pretending to search for Easter eggs, etc.
A friend or acquaintance "abducted" and brought back to the party.
A team member helping to carry a stranger's groceries.
A stranger trying to spell _____ (a word of your choice, hors d'oeuvres or potato is always a great one).
A team member opening a door for a stranger while asking for a tip.
A stranger reciting the names of all the continents.
One or more members of the team singing at a karaoke bar.
A couple dancing to department store or elevator music.
A team member reading a book or reciting a poem to a stranger.
A team member going to a department store and trying on a shirt or dress that is several sizes too small, then asking the clerk if it fits.
A stranger who has been to (a particular tourist attraction of your choice).
A stranger demonstrating the Macarena.
A stranger named Bob.
A stranger who knows your state flower.
A stranger who can imitate John Wayne.
A policeman drawing a chalk line on the ground around one of the team members.
A team member filling a stranger's car with gas, washing the car's windows, and checking the oil.
One or more team members standing beside a tombstone.
A team member sitting on a fire truck with a fireman.
Road kill (an animal that has been run over on the highway).
A team member standing by the greeter at a Wal-Mart and greeting the customers.
A team member asking a hardware store clerk to explain the difference between a flat head and a Phillips head screwdriver.
Team members standing in a row arranging their bodies so that they spell a certain word.
A team member washing dishes at a restaurant.
Team members singing an Elvis song while standing under a neon sign.
A team member holding a chicken.
The guests should be given an exact time to return to the party venue. If not back on time, the team is either disqualified or has points deducted for tardiness. Once everyone has returned, the videotapes are played. The guests vote on the stunts presented in each videotape as follows:
1 Point: The stunt was completed, whether done well or not.
2 Points: The stunt was completed with creativity.
3 Points: The stunt was exceptionally creative.
Five bonus points are awarded to any team that comes up with an original stunt and tapes it. For example, one team's videotape showed a big, husky male team member walking into a department store and trying on bras in the middle of an aisle as other team members, with straight faces, critiqued the way each one fit.
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A different kind of SCAVENGER HUNT
My Senior Branches Unit is doing this hunt for the Pathfinders in the Division at camp. It should be neat with how they interperate the things they have to find.
Uniform can be OUR uniform we wear or something that is uniform like a fence ....
It has already been suggested to me that happiness can be the smile on a McDonald's bag.
This is an abstract scavenger hunt. If you have never been involved in this kind of hunt before, let us explain the idea. The items on the list for this hunt are not specific items which can be easily located. You will not find license plates, or hubcaps, or other mundane, boring things like that. Instead, we have given you abstract things to find, and it is up to you, and your imaginative team mates to come up with items that best fit the description you have.
Scoring will be done as follows: Points will be awarded for the number of items found from the list, the amount of time in which the hunt was completed, and most importantly, the majority of the teams points will come from creativity of interpretation of the list items!
You must find:
Team Spirit
True Love
The Great Canadian Dream
The Meaning of Life
Happiness
Wealth
Beauty
Style
Rhythm
Intelligence
Wisdom
Grace
Laughter
Seasons
Uniform
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This is another "camp" scavenger hunt idea
This would be good for 2 units to do at a camp.
The Rangers in my unit thought this one up!
They are just so creative, when they want to be.
Split up into 8-10 people and they are also going on a scavenger hunt.
Item#1- Go into the woods and every girl must find one stick and one stick only. It can be any size as long as each girl only brings back one stick.
Then find the ranger/leader wearing the blue colored bandana at the campfire pit. She will give you your next activity.
Item #2- Now find a roll of duct tape and scissors from one of the groups of which you belong to. Take the scissors and duct tape to the Ranger wearing the white bandana at the campfire pit. There you will receive your the next activity.
Recite one of the Sing Ontario Sing songs for your level that You have learned. (Here the rangers/ leaders will cut the duct tape at arms length and they will only get that amount of duct tape to use)
Item#3- Now you have all the items that you will need to build a recreation of the CN tower. Your group will only be able to use the sticks that you have collected and the duct tape that you have been given. You can use as much string as you would like. The goal is to create the largest construction of the CN tower possible.
****These are the restrictions- ****
-Each person can only have one job (ie. You can't be a talker and the scissors holder at the same time)
-Only 5 people can talk
-Only one person can touch the duct tape
-Two people are in control of the string
-One person is in control of the scissors
-The rest are in control of the sticks BUT they can only use one hand.
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This past weekend our Cluster hosted a fun overnight event for Cadettes and Seniors... We held a Video Car Rally.
If you have ever done a "car rally" with youth groups or adults, you know they can be loads of fun but sometimes they get too wild. Well, we were able to plan in the fun and plan out the wild (unsafe) parts.
We rented one of our council's in-town cabins/lodges in downtown San Diego. Most girls in our Cluster live about 45 minutes to an hour from downtown San Diego.
The event began at 1:30 Saturday afternoon and ended at noon on Sunday. The cost was $10.00 per person and included lodging, dinner, and breakfast.
Girls were put into groups of 5-6, with a driver and a video camera. As a group they were given the car rally perimeters, start time and end time, a zip-lock bag with $20.00, a city tourist map, city tourist brochures, list of stunts to video tape, ways to earn bonus points, and mystery point clues.
They had 4 hours to complete 18 stunts. They could do the stunts in any order. Each stunt was worth 20 points, if completed fully and correctly. If a stunt had 2 or more parts to it, groups could earn partial points, if the stunt was attempted, but not totally completed. Groups could receive up to 5 bonus points per stunt if they were able to get other people, not in their group, to join them. One point per extra person, up to five people.
These stunts can be adapted to many different areas. We plan to do it again in our own town, which has very few tourist spots. Here are the stunts we did in San Diego:
1. Go to a gas station and get someone to let you pump their gas or wash their windows.
2. Go to the San Diego train station. By the fountain - pretend you are a train and sing "I've Been Working on the Railroad.
3. Interview people at the San Diego Zoo. Ask them if they said good-bye to "Hua Me" (the famous panda who is going back to China in Sept.) or if they will say good-bye to Hua Me now for you. 1 extra bonus point for each foreign language, up to five points.
4. Between the Embarcadero and Seaport Village, find one of those cute guys that pedals a "pedicab" and sing "Happy Birthday" to him. Interview him. If you ask the mystery question, you get 5 bonus points.
5. Along the Embarcadero, find the ship that looks like a pirate ship and sing a pirate song or sea chantey on or near it.
6. Find a playground with a slide and get as many people on it at one time as you can.
7. Find a carousel and ride it (one closes at 5:00 and the other at 6:00). Try to "catch the brass ring." Bonus mystery points for riding the secret animal.
8. Go to McDonalds and get ice cream cones. Do a short skit or make up a song about your ice cream cones.
9. Find a porta-potty and stuff as many of your group in as you can. The door must close.
10. Go into a fast food restaurant, other than McDonalds or Burger King, and order a "Big Mac" or "Whopper."
11. Go to the school house in Old Town (closes at 4:00). Sit down as pupils for a lesson. Be Prepared - give a gift to the school house teacher.
12. Get crowns from a Burger King and wear them to Seaport Village while you shop for a San Diego postcard. Bonus points if you pick the mystery tourist spot postcard.
13. In Old Town visit a shop whose name may be that of a relative. Buy something that is 7 for $1.00 (5 bonus points for choosing the mystery flavor).
14. Go into a fast food place and get someone not from your group to sing a commercial jingle from that chain of restaurants.
15. Find a fountain and do your best rendition of "Singing in the Rain" or any other song with rain in it.
16. Go to the Basic Brown Bear Factory, near Old Town. While outside pretend to jump rope while singing the jump rope song, "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around."
17. Ask someone for directions to Australia.
18. The 50 point stunt: Go to the Hotel Del Coronado. Pretend one of you is a tour guide. Give a tour of some of the "haunted rooms." Give three different ghost stories for maximum points.
After the "car rally" we had dinner and then watched all the video. They were great and the girls had a great time.
Just wanted to share our fun idea.
Rhonda
San Diego-Imperial Council, CA
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In a message dated 7/23/02 4:13:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
> We held a Video Car Rally.
It sound fun.... when my older was in 12th grade (geez... did I say WAS?? for she just graduated from HS last month), her class has Reality Mall..... like your version.... their version is buy insurnace.. find apt,,,, get a job,,, job interview.... etc etc..... with it...you have so much money and see how much you have left over at the end of months...... The kids had a blast.... did all that in 5 hours, including lunch which they had to "pay" with fake money. Even my daugher got "traffic ticket twice, and showed up in "court" and paid the fines twice. All that was done with help of communinty businesses, including the police dept to give out fake tickets.
Daughter learned that her "income" of 2,400 can be gone and down to a measly 30 dollars at end of month.... Many kids went "bankrupted".
for what they did..... think that was GREAT Dream to Realty or Career exploration project...... Guess who stormed up that idea... a former Senior Advisor, now School's Career counselor.
Lee
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7/23/2002, writes:
> < For your car rally, was the group's driver also usually the group
> videographer?>
No, the girls had to videotape their own stunts. We had some very
interesting camera angle shots. In one group each time this one girl was
doing the videotaping all you saw was chest shots. It was funny.
> < Did a team get extra points for returning with the most money in their
> Ziplock bag? >
We did not give extra points for the most money returned, but I think we
should have. Maybe ten points for the most money returned and 5 for the
second most. The group that spent the least money spent $8.00 and one group
that spent the most money spent $18.50.
> < How many hours did you allow for the teams on Saturday before they
> returned to the meeting place?>
They had 4 hours to complete as many of the 8 different stunts as they could.
We never expected anyone to come close to finishing.
< And in that amount of time, did teams > have luck getting that many stunts
> completed? >
The most stunts completed was 17, the least was 15. Some stunts were not
completed fully. Groups had the hardest time finding an unlocked
porta-potty, finding a Burger King to get the crowns, getting to the school
house before closing (parking was the frustration).
Happy Trails,
Rhonda
San Diego-Imperial Council, CA
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I just need to share a great field trip I had with my Cadettes (1st year). They were working on the Photography IPP. We started out at the Mall (45 min from where we live). The girls were split into two teams, and they did a "Photo Scavenger Hunt". Each team was given a camera, and clues to a store/business. Their goal was to solve the clue, take pictures of the store/business sign with one of the team members in the picture. They had a list of 20 business and each had a point value. When they were done they could shop.
Each team had a different approach. One team was lets get these right. The others was lets try to take as many pictures so we can then go shopping. But they still had fun. We live in a small rural city, and some of the girls had never been to the mall, so it was a treat.
Then we went to another "mall" (if you want to call it that. It is one.. if not the oldest in the nation, but there are only a few stores and theaters there), to go to a Camera Store. Although, this had been scheduled with the manager, and reconfirmed this week, he failed to pass it on. So they were surprised to see us. Well the girls were able to see how the film was developed, (using machine, not dark room) how they can fix flaws in pictures, enlargements (they gave us an 11x14 group shot for no cost), cutting all that, it was great. Then they got to see the different types of camera's, digitals, etc. They were even letting the girls handle them, which surprised me. Made me nervous to see 7th graders handling $1000.00 worth of camera. We saw how digital film is processed. The girls had some very good questions. Like why are good 35mm cameras always black?
Again practically right down group lines, one group had a great time, the other group "boring". (Although I think they liked it but didn't want me to know) Hey they picked it!
But I think they all learned something. To have your flash on, to keep your finger out of the lens.
Just wanted to share.