How To Plan A Scavenger Hunt

Hi, my name is Amy and I'm a wedding and event planner. I have planned events mainly specializing in weddings, however, I have planned events from Christmas to corporate and I'm going to give you some tips that I hope will help for you to plan events in the future. I'm going to talk to you about how to plan a scavenger hunt.

First thing you need to do is to organize a suitable location. You need to make sure that it is a safe location, that there aren't any hazards for children, i.e.

deep water or other potential hazards. You need to make sure that the location that you choose has got plenty of hiding spots as this will help with scavenger hunts. You need to make sure there's plenty of adult supervision throughout the areas that you're going to be using to make sure that all the children are well looked after and safe.

You might want to organize a theme, maybe a pirate treasure hunt or if it's around Easter, you could do an Easter egg hunt just to add a little bit of a personal touch to it. You want to make sure that the children partaking in the scavenger hunt are split into teams. It might be worth making sure that you split this fairly.

If there are ages that vary, make sure that there are older children and younger children grouped together so that the older children can help the younger children. You might want to draw up a map and have clues based around the location that you're going to be using, maybe having a clue leading from one location to another. If you have got older children, it might be an idea to use riddles so that it takes them a bit longer to get from one area to another and it's a bit more of a challenge for them.

It might be a nice idea to use cameras, disposable cameras so that they have to use these cameras to take pictures of different sections to prove that they reached and they figured out the clue. When they come to the end, you will need to have a prize for the winner but it would be a nice idea to make sure that you do have a prize for the losing teams just so that there are no hard feelings for the children. I hope that this has helped in planning a scavenger hunt.