Thursday, December 15, 2011

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Divide your group into a few teams (no more than 5 per team). Each team will need to have a digital camera or camera phone (capable of taking good quality pictures). Everyone gets a list with the same items on it that they need to go photograph. Set a time limit (I've usually done it from 30 minutes to an hour) and send them off. There is a rule that the group has to stay together to take the pictures (no dividing-and-conquering, which can be tempting especially with camera phones that can text the photos to one person), and to make it even harder you can require that everyone in the group who isn't taking the picture needs to be in it.

This game can be designed to be played just on one campus or in one neighborhood, or across town. The lists need to be prepared in advance.

When the time limit is up, have everyone meet back where they started. Import the pictures onto a computer so everyone can gather around and see the pictures the other groups took (and decide if any of them need to be disqualified). Whichever team found and correctly photographed the most items on the list wins.

Fun list ideas:
A firefighter
The "Welcome to" sign of your city
The golden arches
Twins
A man with a combover
Poultry
The biggest thing you can find
The ugliest animal you can find
Balloons
Someone playing an instrument

Supplies:
paper (a list of places for each group)
pencils (one per group)
digital cameras (or camera phones)
laptop/computer

4 comments:

  1. tell me you arent serious....

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  2. Thanks, Rachel for making this blog! There are a lot of great ideas here!!!

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  3. Thank you for this idea! Helps so much, very grateful.

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