Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Halloween scavenger hunt is like a fun challenge game that the guests play during the Halloween theme party. This is a very famous game and also gives a chance to the guests to dress up well. This game is a lot fun when it is well organized and is played without cheating. This game involves all the people present in the party and is always a true entertainer.
Halloween scavenger hunt has the following requisites: -
A Theme:
This game in most of the cases has the list of the products as per the theme of the party. This is a game is played with the help of lot of goodies hidden at various places. For instance, if the theme of your Halloween party is vampire, then it will have goods like cross, wooden stake, big teeth etc which will be hidden in various places of a particular area.
Teams: -
This is an important task as this game is always played in teams. The teams should not be very big in size and must be equally divided. This is a fun task and even funnier are the names which one can give to their teams. The typical Halloween scavenger hunt team names are "the Mummies" "The Monsters" "The Goblins" etc.
The Area of Play: -
Mostly, this is a game which requires a lot of space to hide the goodies. It is always nice to limit the area so that less time is wasted in searching for the items in the list given to the teams. The yard or the lawn must be safe and clean and no one should get hurt while having fun! It should also have good lighting and also nice places to hide the goodies and making this hunt a lot more fun.
A Halloween Bag: -
This is a must for this game. All the teams have a team leader and the team lead must be given a Halloween bag to accumulate all the goodies which are found by his/her team. This will help in not misplacing the products which are found by the team. The bag can be color coded so that there is no problem while the goods are counted team wise.
Click a lot of Snaps:
You should always make each Halloween very special and memorable. One should click a lot of snaps team wise so that they can store them and give it back to the teams at the end of the game as a token of fun. The snaps will also recall all those items which cannot be brought back and are Halloween specific, like the scarecrow, the witch or the big pumpkin which is used as a popular decoration of Halloween.
Give out Prizes at the end of the Game: -
Prizes are given to for the winning team or the winner. Give out some nice awards to the teams who have won the Halloween scavenger hunt. This makes them happier. This is always a token of fun and joy and it is not necessarily huge and grand.
A generalized list of Halloween Scavenger Hunt game is: -
- Trick-or-treat bag
- Trash bag
- The signature of the owner of a black cat
- The business card of a mortician
- Strand of black hair
- Rusty nail
- Red lipstick
- Red leaf
- Pumpkin seed
- Popsicle stick
- Paper ghost
- Orange or black candle
- Halloween mask
- Half eaten green apple
- Green Jello
- Garlic clove
- Flyer for a haunted house
- Fake spider
- Candy wrapper
- Candy corn
- Broken mirror
- Blood red drink
- Black nail polish or lipstick
- Black eyeliner
- Black colored food item
- Anything with the number 13 on it
- An bright orange crayon
- An October calendar
- Acorn
- A skeleton tattoo
- A piece of black licorice
- A newspaper comic strip that includes a cauldron or a ghost
- A mask
- A living spider
- A house that looks haunted (Photo)
- A home with tombstones on the yard (Photo)
- A recipe for pumpkin pie
- A dead flower (rose)
- A cobweb
- A chocolate bar which is wrapped in a Halloween wrapper
- A box of salt
- A bouquet of dead flowers
- A black walnut
- A black hat
- 13 treats for Halloween
Halloween Scavenger hunt can be very interesting if the items are difficult to find and the guests play in a competitive spirit. This is the game which allows every one to be a part of Halloween celebrations. The items should be in accordance with the theme of the party so that the spirit of the theme remains alive.