Archive for the ‘Scavenger Hunt Party Game’ Category
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Hi Nikki
My Scavenger Hunt is not until June 23 But the stuff that you sent me has been such a great help so far in organizing the event. Everyone here can not wait to participate. I have a waiting list started . I am sure that this will not be the last hunt that I organize. I just wish that I could
take part.
Maybe I will be a fifth wheel in one of the teams just to see how everything went. Will let you know the results after June 23 Thank you for your interest and I shall recommend you to anyone whom asks.
Kelly LaPorte, Ontario Canada
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Hi Nikki! Our party is this Friday. My Daughter is 11 and celebrating with 15 of her 5th grade friends. I planning on incorporating things to hunt for that represent spring, the year of 1996 (the year she was born) and March. I am not very far on my list yet!!
I am very nervous because I don’t have a full plan as of yet. Your planner was helpful but still I need to be more creative. Perhaps I am over thinking things too!!
We are planning to split the kids into groups and giving them colored t-shirts saying ‘We found a great time… or Searching for Great Time.. And we still have to figure out prizes etc.
I purchased ‘Riddle me’ but didn’t like it nearly as much as I like yours so thank you!!
I also appreciate you helping me figure out what to purchase 
I will keep you posted,
Lori
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Hi Lori
Just look through all of the many scavenger lists and choose about 15/20 items that appeal to you and work with your theme. For spring - there are several nature hunts so you can choose items from them. Obviously some coins for the year she was born - is there anything else around the neighborhood that is 11 years old?
You could also use the numbers 1996 - e.g. one clothes peg, 9 paper clips, 9 daisies and 6 balloons (or whatever item you choose).
Some fun tasks recorded by camera always go down well. Look at the task based hunts for some ideas.
As for prizes - give each team $11 to purchase an item - you state the theme - fun / pink / biggest / smallest / cutest etc. Winners get their pick of the purchased items.
I hope this helps
Best Wishes
Nikki
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I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your help. You work like I do and I love that about you. I am going to share your website with everyone!
Lori
Lori Logan, California USA
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I have been able to get the scavenger hunt downloaded successfully and just briefly looked at, looks good.
My task is to organize a lock-in for youth ( appro. 100 grades7-12) at my church, my theme is mission impossible eluding to the fact that without Christ it is impossible to get into Heaven. I was planning to use some of your ideas to make a week long mission to be accomplished before they could get into the lock-in. This is probably going to be a very elaborate event (I hope I can pull it off) in early April.
Thanks
Jim Abbott, Montana USA
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Hi Nikki,
We live in the USA, in Moore, OK. The party is this Saturday the 23rd.
It is a surprise birthday party for my son who turned 13 last Sunday.
There will be mostly 13 to 14 year olds but a few younger and some older siblings at the party, and of course aunts and uncles to help drive for the scavenger hunt.
I have read over the planner and am trying to decide which one I want to do. I really like the one they have to find something for each letter of the alphabet.
Thank you,
Kim Rogers, Oklahoma USA
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007THANK YOU so much! This is so great, exactly what I needed. My son’s 11th scavenger hunt party should be a blast.
Thanks for sending the one I had intended, I will tell others about the site.
MariBeth Smith, Arizona USA
Thursday, September 20th, 2007We had the scavenger hunt party this past sat. Everything went great. The kids (and adults) loved it our neighborhood was really good about letting the kids have fun and knock on their door trying to gather stuff. We had 25 11-12 yr olds show up it was a lot of fun.
Thanks,
Misty Whitlock, South Carolina USA
Monday, September 17th, 2007My daughter’s 10th b’day scavenger hunt party was yesterday and it went great. I had 42 kids at my house + put them into 6 teams. They went out w/ an adult chaperone to peoples houses to find the items. They had a blast. The book was very helpful. Thanks again!
Tammy Kaufman, Florida USA
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007attached I have the list for the scavenger hunt. Most of the kids are 12 and 13. I thought I could come up with names for teams and have them draw them out of a hat to make the teams fair. I am going to try to get a digital camera for each team to take the 2 pictures from each list. I will have my sister come in and print the picture 8 X10 to hang up in the party.
We are planning on giving each team a walkie-talkie and a one hour time limit to roam the neighborhood.
Thank you!
Amy Evans, Texas USA
Monday, September 3rd, 2007In Concord, California we’re having a scavenger hunt around town for my daughter’s 17th birthday. It is a slumber party with swimming and scavenger hunt!
Cindy Johnson, California USA
Saturday, September 1st, 2007Nikki - you are a life saver! I really love it and as a result of your packaged managed to switch gears and really make my hunt something special, it happens on Tuesday, now I have full confidence it will be a winner!!
In Victoria, BC - Tues Apr 10 (I’d already done a lot of pre-planning) for Company Team Building, all adults/
Cheers!
Chris Hill, British Columbia Canada
Friday, August 31st, 2007Hi Nikki
Thanks for your interest in our scavenger hunt.
We are a small group of trustees for a small Green that was saved from building land. It is now a small haven for wild life in the village of Soulbury in Buckinghamshire England.
We are always looking for fun events on the Green to make people aware that it is there and also to raise some funds for the upkeep of the place.
We love the idea of a scavenger hunt, using nature as our theme. I am reading through all the info you sent and ideas are forming.
I will let you know when we hold the event and how successful it is.
Many thanks
Nan Chadwick, Buckinghamshire UK
Friday, August 10th, 2007Party was last Friday, boys had a blast! I cut and paste from your scavenger lists to make a great mall hunt! Funny to see 11 year old boys looking for sale items, washing hands in sink at Bath and Body Works, getting nails painted, etc…Thanks for your help!
MariBeth Smith, Arizona USA
Monday, August 6th, 2007Hi Nikki,
What at wonderful resource your scavenger hunt e-book is. The hunt is tonight and I have already spent about three hours prepping with at least 3 more to do. It’s raining here so we are keeping game inside the house, on the porch and in the screen in porch too.
The boundaries, rules and age appropriate list were extremely helpful. Our group is ages 8-9 girls. There are 9 girls coming all of whom will be randomly divided into three groups of three. Unfortunately one of the babysitters cancelled last night so I’m now wrestling with three teams and two supervisors…..
Got to go, but I will f/u with news and feedback.. You are amazing to have the care and concern to email me.
I dearly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Lee Anne McClymont, North Carolina USA
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Hello.
I read your book yesterday. I will being doing the Scavenger Hunt some time in July. I have until then to get it together. I am doing it for an age group of 12-17 both boys and girls. There should be approximately 6 girls and 6 boys. If invite another group it could potentially be more. For two years I had a neighborhood girls ministry. We use to do all kinds of things. That has been over for about 2 years. Recently I had a bible study for 12 year old boys in my home. That’s been over for a month or so. Both groups have asked me to have ’something’ for them this summer. They miss me, ahhhh. ha ha just kidding - they like being entertained. Anyway, both were bible study type deals in the past. The hunt doesn’t have to do with the bible BUT I am sending them a paper with some short scripture fill in the blanks…that will be their ticket to come to the hunt. I’m thinking about having it in our downtown area - we live a small community. We can be at the park and they will have access to the city building, library, post office, tennis courts, river front, businesses, restaurants, etc… They can work for a while - break for lunch - and go again. I think it will be the boys against the girls. I have a lot of ideas running through my head. I’m going to need to go back through your book and write things down this time. I still need to think about what they have to do, why, what the prizes are etc… Lots to do yet.
Thanks for taking the time to help.
Michelle Green, Kentucky USA
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Nikki hi,
The Scavenger Hunt at Wal-Mart was very fun. I had my co-workers running from one end of the store to the other. The best thing.. I had them pushing each other in shopping carts outside in the Wal-Mart parking lot and video taping each other. We even had them take pictures with Wal-Mart employees.
They said the Scavenger Hunt was really fun and really appreciated the work that I put into this event.
Thanks,
Susie Myers, USA
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Nikki -
We are planning a Scavenger Hunt Party for a bunch of 8th grade girls (14yrs old). 10-20 girls. The area will be around our neighborhood. We were thinking about having the girls take digital pictures of the things they need to find, or tasks they need to perform. Then setting up slide show of the pictures when they get back, so they can all have a laugh. Thanks.
Rich Russell, USA
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007I had the scavenger hunt last Friday. It was a huge success considering I put it together in 3 days with the help of your documents. The hunt was at a Community park with a huge playground area. The kids and parents had a great. The teacher appreciated the thank you cards.
This weekend I’m doing another one for my son’s birthday pool party.
Thanks!
Heather Swift, Pennsylvania USA
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007I had my husband’s 35th birthday party yesterday, a surprise scavenger hunt that was unbelievably successful! I had three teams set up, and I made it so that each team had to have my husband with them to complete certain selected tasks (which were typically different for each team). I traveled with my husband as he kept getting cell phone calls to run off and meet this team or that team, so I got to interact with every team pretty extensively during the hunt. I have never seen so many people having such a good time and laughing so much in my entire life. As the organizer, it was the best feeling in the world! One guest wrote an email and said: ‘I wanted to tell you what a FABULOUS time we had yesterday. It was, in my humble opinion, the perfect party. Thanks again for everything. You really, truly outdid yourself.’
From your tools, I combined suggestions and sample items from the photo hunt, the hunt at the mall, and the hunt downtown. I think the teams had the most fun (and got the funniest pictures) from these items:
- Convince a downtown bartender to invent an original drink in honor of Jason. Write down the ingredients, and get a picture of Jason sipping the drink with your team.
- Photograph at least 2 members of your team playing Dance Dance Revolution.
- Photograph one team member dipping a bare toe in the canal.
- Photograph at least 3 members of your team posing in front of Victory Field as if they were playing baseball.
- Photograph a member of your team jumping up in the air in the place where creativity blossoms. (This was the Arts Garden. They really got into jumping high for the shot while trying not to distract the people listening to the classical pianist inside!)
I also had a funny misunderstanding. I gave four points if you could get your whole team into pictures in these three situations 1) with a stroller; 2) with a clock that read 2:45; and 3) with a couple who have been together less than 2 years. One team thought you had to have all three at once (my fault), so they nabbed a father with a stroller, ran into a clock store, borrowed a clock and set it for 2:45, had the hands of the clock fall off in the process, bribed the father not to leave, got another clock, set that, and grabbed a young couple. They definitely won the prize for ‘best story’!
I am attaching a few pictures. Thanks for making yourself available and providing great tools, which not only gave me good ideas but boosted my confidence in the process. All the adults had so much fun that my son is now demanding a scavenger hunt birthday party for kids on his upcoming birthday.
Best regards
Ann D’Angelo, Indiana USA
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Nikki,
The party was a big success! Had 4 teams of 7-8 girls ages 12-13. The ‘bigger or better’ scavenger hunt theme was great. Each team kept each item obtained and in the end all the teams voted for the winning team. The big items obtained were an end table/chair, box spring, computer/scanner/printer, paintings, swimming pool.
It was fun watching the teams coming down the street trying to carry all their items before the deadline. The winners received $10 each and everyone else could take home any of the collected items they so desired. They worked up their appetites and enjoyed the taco bar. Fun was had by all! Thanks again.
Allan Luistro, North Dakota USA
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Thanks for all the emails and help. I am interested in your help and ideas. Our event is an annual event (which if all goes well I would like to make the scavenger hunt an annual part of it).
The name of our event is called ‘Livin, Lovin, Luau’. It is a luau for Dads and kids ages 0-6 years. We host it at our local YMCA. We are confined to one large gym. My idea was to have all the dad/kid teams who wanted to participate follow a series of clues that would lead them from one station to another throughout the room. Some of the stations or games that we will have are: Play dough station, Coconut Bowling, Crazy Totem Poles, Fish craft, Infant Island (area for small child and infants to explore), coloring station, Photo station (we always take a picture of each child/ren with their dad to take home), Pin the Tail on the fish, Ring toss, Snack area, Fish Flying, Limbo, Shave your dad, Fishing game, Reading area, Pin the Banana on the tree, Hanging Monkeys.
I am sure I can come up with a great hunt. The last item would be at the area where the dad fills out an evaluation of the event and the child gets a special treat bag of goodies. Thanks
Cori Laux, Wisconsin USA
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Nikki, thanks yet again for following up on our scavenger hunt. We did the first one, the one with our 12 year old this past weekend. We live in San Antonio and our plan was to do the neighborhood hunt but the weather got the best of us so we ended up doing the one designed for the house. We used the list that was in the original book and the kids had a great time with it. It was a great success. I’m on the road on business now but still plan on doing the adult scavenger hunt in the near future. I haven’t yet decided which one we will do but I’m thinking about the one the involves driving around town.
Norm Fox, Texas USA
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Hi Nikki
Well everyone had a blast with the Cruise scavenger hunt !!
I took some questions right off your list and then using your
Other items as suggestions… I went on line with Royal Caribbean and Printed off each decks floor plan and used that to help me get information
Thank you for all of your help ! I have included the hunt I made.
Thanks Nikki
JoAnn Seckus, Illinois USA
Friday, June 29th, 2007Hi Nikki -
I have found the e-book extremely helpful in planning my daughter?s 13th birthday party.
Our party is taking place in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The party is the weekend of October 7, 2006
The special occasion is my daughter’s 13th birthday
The age range is 12-14
We are doing a Mall Hunt as a local mall most of the girls are not familiar with to add extra challenge. I have broken it into three different types - things to take photos of, questions to find answers to and items to collect.
We are checking in to a hotel with a water park, going for dinner to Sweet Tomatoes and then to the mall for the HUNT. After our return to the hotel - I have some games planned for the girls to play - then they can do what they do at this age - talk all night. In the morning, we go to the water park following breakfast and then home around 2:00 PM. Everyone gets a party bag with body glitter, lotion, nail file, nail polish, body powder, etc…….
My daughter has chosen to not be a part of the planning so it will be a surprise to her as well as the girls invited. We are ALL excited about it.
I’m sure I will be referring back to the information in your book frequently over the next few years……
Thanks
Rebecca Ihori, Arizona USA
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Thank you for the info on the scavenger hunt. We will be having my son’s 12th birthday party.
It is in a few weeks. I would agree this will be an easy party to plan. I purchased your booklet because I needed items for the list and ideas for invitations.
Mindy Richard, California USA
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Nikki,
Sorry it’s taken a while to get back to you. Yes, we had our scavenger hunt. It was for my daughters’ Sweet 16 and she had invited 10 friends.
We had been looking around and trying to think of something fun to do. I came across several websites about scavenger hunts and she agreed to letting me plan one. The hard part was I had less than one week by the time I got your book online. But I had some basic ideas and used your book to help out.
It was very fun. I took them to the mall with a list of 16 stores they had to find via an envelope with a ‘pictionary’ type clue on it. They were divided up into 3 groups, so I had 16 envelopes of clues, all in the same order for each group. I started each group out at a different spot on the list, so they wouldn’t run into each other. At each store, they had to do one of several options: take a picture of themselves doing something, (at the GAP, holding a pair of underwear that my daughter would wear); find/purchase an item (at a bead store, they had to buy a small string of beads for under $3.00 in her favorite color) or contact someone at the store for their task, etc (at the GAP, the manager had them walk out of the store quacking like ducks! She really got into it!!)
I provided them with a list of rules (which we went over beforehand), some money to use for specific tasks, pens and paper to list the stores on and a bag with the clues in it. They were to call me if they got stuck on a clue.
Everything had points, so the first team done, didn’t necessarily win.
My daughter was very afraid I would make them do something ‘weird’ and was fairly anxious about the whole thing. The GAP store manager was a riot and really got into the whole thing. She was so fun and the girls actually really had a lot of fun! It was a cold weekend here, so the mall was VERY crowded on a late Saturday afternoon. I had contacted the stores where they were to take pictures and got oks from all of them. That’s how the Gap manager got involved. She couldn’t wait to help out.
The crowds at the mall were a problem, in that at one store one group had to wait to pay for their item for 15 minutes, which eventually left them without enough time to get to the last clue. But all in all , it was a huge success! The girls all had a great time and were very excited to participate. Afterwards, we took them all out to a local restaurant to eat and we gave out prizes there. We had used digital cameras, so while they were getting dressed to go to eat, we loaded them to my husbands’ laptop and
were able to show them all at dinner. That was really fun and they were all laughing.
So, that’s how it all went. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun for the girls. Plus, no one else had done anything like that before, so that was very cool. Score one for MOM! ha
Your book was a big help. I hope to use it again sometime. I’m thinking how fun an adult one would be. Hmmm…..
Sandy Kollmorgen, Virginia USA