Find 5-20 small items that you have. They can be toys, keychains, or anything else small that you can think of!
Make clues that will lead you from one item to another. If you want, you can make them rhyme. Some of the clues can be harder than others. An example clue is below.
Hide your items and clues around around your house if you are playing indoors or around your backyard, front lawn, a park, or anywhere outdoors you can think of if you are playing outdoors. Make sure that the places clues are hidden match up with what it said on the last clue.
Get someone to play your scavenger hunt. Give them the first clue and let them find the other clues and complete the scavenger hunt. You can time them if you want.
Make sure you have a deck of 52 cards.
Make instructions for a card game that you can play with a deck of 52 cards. Use your imagination and get creative. You can even make your own cards, too!
Click here for the instruction template. Print out the instruction template or copy and paste it into a document writing app (Pages, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, etc...). Fill out the blanks on the page (age rating, number of players, and how to play).
Play your card game whenever you want!
Decide what you want the theme of your game to be. What do you like? Maybe make that your theme.
Design your game board. We suggest using cardboard, but paper will also work fine. First, make your path/spaces. Next, color in the spaces and add special spaces with advantages or disadvantages. Last, color in the surrounding blank spaces or cover it in colored paper.
Create your instructions. You can also include what special spaces mean and what happens if you land on one. Click here for the instruction template. Print out the instruction template or copy and paste it into a document writing app (Pages, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, etc...). Fill out the blanks on the page (age rating, number of players, and how to play).
Create the title of the game.
Make your pieces. Obviously, you don't have a plastic factory in your house so you can't make game pieces that look like they came from a real game. Instead, you can use cardboard, or anything small enough to fit the spaces in your house. You can use pom poms, cut up something, or whatever you find that you like.
Package your game. You can use a shoe box, a plastic bag, and old game box with nothing in it, or anything else that you can use for packaging. It is okay if you don't want to package your game.
How do you decide how many spaces to go? If you have a dice, use it. If you don't, you can write numbers on small pices of paper and put them in a bag. When it is someone's turn, they will close their eyes and pick out of the bag. The number that they pull out is how many spaces they go.
Play your board game whenever you want!
For Playing Alone:
Look at the list and see what is up first.
Find the first thing on the list.
Once found, put the item in a pile.
Keep finding things and putting them in the pile until nothing is left.
For Playing With Friends:
Make sure everyone is on the call or together.
Have everyone find the things on the list.
The first person to find everything shouts "done".
The person who shouted "done" has to show the "game master" their items. If they have found everything, they win!
Scavenger Hunt List:
Find something you are thankful for
Find something that resembles Thanksgiving
Find a turkey (a picture, a model, etc...)
Find something that is either red, orange, yellow, or brown
Find something in nature
Find a candle
Find an autumn decoration
Find something you are eating for Thanksgiving dinner or a photo of what you are eating
Find your favorite toy or stuffed animal
Find something that smells nice