Photo Scavenger Hunt Ideas

Scavenger hunts are a great team game to bond, explore and have fun together. The best part about them is that these can be customized and played with kids, teens and adults with equal elan. So for all those who have a group outing coming up and are planning to keep a fun photo scavenger hunt, given below are some of the most creative and fun ways to conduct the same.

Personalities
This is a free handed photo scavenger hunt in which the teens get to impersonate and pose as any celebrity of their choice for photographs. So, each of the teens dresses up and does make-up like a celebrity, it can be a sportsperson or a film star or any famous businessman or politician of their own city. The photographs taken are judged on the basis of creativity and how genuine the team members are looking i.e. how closely they resemble the celebrity they are posing as.

Buildings
An educative idea for college students is to divide them into groups and then ask them to take photographs of ten famous buildings in town. The ideas for this can include - the oldest building in the city, the most visited building, the main library, mayor's office, main post office, a famous person's house, etc.

"Themselves"
One of the creative ideas for kids is to have them pose for photographs in which they are doing something that they enjoy. So, they can pose in photographs "playing soccer", "reading a book", "catching butterflies", "talking amongst themselves", "wearing a superman outfit and readying to take off", amongst others.

City Tour
Often times it is seen that a person might be staying in a city for a very long time, but when it comes to really knowing about its history, famous places and restaurants, gardens etc, he has not a clue about it. So a good scavenger hunt idea for adults which will not only be fun but will add to their knowledge of their own city is to search the Internet and make a list of all the famous places in town. Next, split up in teams, visit all these public places and take their photographs. To make it more adventurous, have the adults travel by public transport! The team which comes back with photographs of all the famous places in the list, in the minimum time, is declared the winner!

Random Things
Ask the team members to get twenty photographs of some funny things that they see around them. It can be some hilarious graffiti on the walls of a building or a policeman sleeping in his uniform or a man wearing a girl's dress! The team members can click anything that is weird or funny around them. Again, the photographs are judged on the basis of creativity and their fun quotient.

Mall
Take the participants to a mall and have them click photographs of some of the items available there. You can include things like - photographs of ten clothing items for kids, the most expensive and the least expensive item in the mall (the photograph should include the price labels), photograph of a family with more than four kids that has come to do shopping together, photographs of ten customer assistants at the mall (they must be posing together for the photograph), photographs of ten grocery items, ten designer accessories, ten furniture items, etc. The group which comes back first with all the items in the list is the winner.

Aren't these ideas simply fantastic? To add some more fun, at the end of the game, ask each of the groups to make a slide show of the photographs or a collage and make a presentation in front of the others! This indeed is a great game to get the creative juices of the participants flowing and to enhance team bonding!