Scavenger Hunts for Cub/Boy Scout Camping Trip
Robert C. Ring
Does anyone know of a good scavenger hunt for both older and younger
scouts? I need some lists! Thanks.
Michael Carpenter
In article <6j8c0r$g...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>,
"Robert C. Ring" <Rober...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> Does anyone know of a good scavenger hunt for both older and younger
> scouts? I need some lists! Thanks.
>
I wanted to do this on our campout last month and was disappointed
to find very little ready-to-go info on the web. What I did was
to just make a list, something like this:
- Evidence of a large mammal
- Evidence of a small mammal
- Evidence of a bird
- Evidence of a reptile
- A plant that grows only in water
- A plant that grows in a meadow (I knew we were going to a meadow)
- A plant that grows in a forest
- A white wildflower
- A purple wildflower
... etc ...
I printed the list and put it inside a gallon sized ziplock bag. Since I
knew there would be LOTS of elk scat, I included a quart sized ziplock
bag and instructed them to put any scat in the smaller bag, and showed
them how to pick up the scat by turning the baggie inside-out, so they
didn't have to soil their hands.
It went pretty well. This was done at a campout in the mountains. I
did find one on the web that was intended for "around the neighborhood."
Billy M
Robert C. Ring (Rober...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a good scavenger hunt for both older and younger
: scouts? I need some lists! Thanks.
Here is one that I used before..... I hope that it helps.
2 Empty Soda Cans
3 Different Color Balloons
5 Cigarette Butts
5 Different Leaves (Identify each)
5 Merit Badge Pamphlet
5 Sharks Teeth
Anything with Adidas on it
Bald Cypress Leaf
Band-Aid
Bead
(Name)'s Signature
Bird Feather
Blue Hat
Bottle of Nail Polish
Bowline
Boy Scout Handbook
Camp Bonner Cup
Camp Bonner Patch
Camp Bonner T-Shirt
Carved (Wood) or Painted Neckerchief Slide
Cinder from an Old Fire
Coat Hanger
College Shirt (except UNC)
Colored Shoe String
(Name)'s DOB
Dry Towel
Eagle Scout's Signature
Flashlight
Foreign Coin
Four Leaf Clover
Funny Face *
Good Advice from (Name)
Hair from the Camp Director's Chest
Handfull of Trash from Camp Trail
(Name)'s Favorite Ice Cream Flavor
Ice Cream Wrapper
Insect Repellent
Item from an Indian Outfit
Item with The Spice Girls OR Shania Twain on it
(Name)'s Life Story - - (Make it up) *
(Name)'s Favorite Color
Lanyard
Leaf from an Acer Rubrum
Lost Arrow from Archery Range
Master Lock Key
Match Burned at Both Ends
Mistake
Mollusk Shells
Most Overplayed Song on the Radio
Neckerchief
Newspaper Article
Nike Sneaker
OA sash
Oak Leaf
One of (Name)'s Hobbies
Paper Airplane (Judged by distance traveled) *
Paper Clip
Pen That's Run Out of Ink
Penny (dated before 1980)
Piece of Chewed Gum (Red)
Piece of Rope
Pocketknife
Poncho or Raincoat
Post Oak Leaf
REALLY Lame Joke
Red Brush
Riddle: What has lobes but cannot hear, has hemispheres but no oceans?
Say "I Love Summer Camp" in French
Boy Scout Belt
Boy Scout Hat
Something brown
Something green
Something never before seen by human eyes (This item must be something
that is touchable, cannot cause harm to any animal, and cannot be of
human origin)
Something Wet
Something with a Disney Character on it.
Square Lashing
Sweet Gum Ball
The Meaning of Life *
The Most Beautiful Rock in the Whole Wide World *
Tie Dye Shirt w/Yellow on it
Top 10 Reasons to Work at Camp Bonner *
Number of Staff at Camp Bonner
Used Band-Aid
Webelos Scout Handbook
White Oak Leaf
White Rock (not Reject gray)
Write, "Camp Food is Fantastic!!!", Creatively *
Items with an "*" are to be judged on a scale of 1-3. All other items
are one point each.
(Replace (Name) with the name of someone who is fairly well known.)
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Billy M
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john spacher
A couple years ago during day camp we did a scavenger hunt for trash
items. It worked well. The boys learned a little bit about about
pollution, and we cleaned up the parked we were using.
Bruce A Black
Robert, here is one that we use at our Cub Camporee; it can be fun and
is low impact because they don't collect anything.
Each group gets a sheet with lines lettered from A to Z. They have to
find as many things as possible that start with each letter of the
alphabet.
But it is not that easy. At the end, they have to look at the list of
things for A and pick out the item that they think no other group has
found and circle, same for B, etc. For example, if they have ACORD and
ARDVARK they would probably circle ARDVARK (except in Texas, I imagine).
When their sheets are graded, they get a point if they are the only
group that found and circled that item for a given letter. Top score is
26, high score wins.