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by Claire ColvinLooking for a great bonding activity for your family reunion, staff retreat or group event? Try a photo scavenger hunt – it gets people working and laughing together, requires little equipment and has lots of room for creativity. All you have to do is divide the group into even teams and provide each with a camera, and a list of scenes to hunt for. Then set a time limit, geographic boundries, and a meeting place and let the fun begin. Depending on the age of the participants you may need to set other safty rules. Are cars allowed? Can strangers be in the photos? Remember safty first, but creativity counts.
The groups should be of no more than fifteen, and are a great way to mix people up. Let everyone pick one other person they want to be with, and then mix them up as much as possible. The key to the hunt is creativity, and the result is new friends, new memories and some really great pictures. Plan to have someone upload the photos for viewing or print them off so they're easier to share. Judging the winners is as much fun as the hunt.
Here is a list of pictures to get you started. A list of ten to fifteen pictures should keep people occupied for a couple of hours. The only rule is that EVERYONE (except the person behind the camera) has to be in each picture somewhere. Rotate phottgraphers so everyone can participate. Have Fun!
Scavenger hunt ideas:
- Scene from a Disney movie (explaining it afterwards is half the fun!)
- Catalog pose
- Do exactly what the sign says (any sign can work)
- Most creative use of ‘leap-frog'
- "I can't believe we all fit in here!"
- Picture with an animal (the more unusual the better)
- Take your picture with someone in uniform
- Create a public work of art
- Capture your reflection in an unexpected place
- Spell something in people – family name, hello, SOS . . .
- Mimic a statue -- fountains also work well
- Campaign for an unlikely cause -- higher prices outside a discount store?
- An unsual perspective -- could be everyone's shoes, or the just top of their heads. .
- Make yourselves appear really small
- Can you find us?
~ Claire Colvin, Senior Editor for Women Today, has a great love of words. She enjoys written words, puzzled words and spoken words (as long as she's not the one up front talking). Claire has written previously about myths that steal our joy and how to write the perfect love letter.
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