Coolest Photo Scavenger Hunt Ideas For Kids

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These photo scavenger hunt ideas for kids are sure to make your party tons of fun!

Check out these photo scavenger hunt invitations you can print out and send to each guest:

Worded Photo Scavenger Invitations	Blank Photo Scavenger Invitations
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Divide everyone into teams and give each team a camera. If the camera runs on batteries, make sure the batteries are charged (if they are rechargeable) and if not - buy new batteries or even give them extra spare batteries just in case.

For younger kids you'll need an adult with each team. For more fun - each adult can take a car and drive the team around to find things and scenarios to photograph on the list. In the case of a car, it's best to have no more than 4 kids on a team, that way 4 kids and an adult can fit in one car (unless you have a big van that can hold more people).

You'll be giving the kids a list of items they will need to photograph, as well as scenarios the kids need to create, some can be really funny and others challenging.

Here are a examples to put on your scavenger hunt list:

Bird tracks
A butterfly
Any kind of traffic sign
A picture of the birthday kid's house
A white dog
The inside of a refrigerator
A cloud that looks like an animal
The whole team needs to bunch up together and make a funny face
Someone on your team shaking hands with a policeman/woman
Someone on your team getting a drink from a water fountain while someone else is riding piggyback on their back
A member of the team bagging groceries
Entire team in a phone booth
Entire team in front of an ice-cream truck
A teammate hanging upside-down on the monkey bars
Entire team in the dark with flashlights at their faces
Entire team's reflection in something other than a mirror
Entire team with a Harley Davidson
Entire team in front of a convertible car
An item that costs 99 cents
Entire team in a bathtub or shower (with clothes on of course...)
A teammate playing with a pinball machine
A mother pushing a baby stroller
Entire team in a pet store
Any sport being played
Atleast one teammate jumping off a swing (he/she must be in mid-air)
Entire team reading books
Atleast two teammates in a doghouse
Entire team jumping (everyone must be in mid-air for the picture to count)

Try making the photographing tasks really funny, absurd, and creative; tasks the entire group may need to do together, or just a few team-mates.

You can require that pictures should be taken in a certain order. You can also write a quote, saying and/or conceptual sentence and then the team-members need to photograph their association of the sentence, saying, or quote from a song, movie, or book.

Create your own list, one that may be closer to your kid's personality and the type of group that is arriving to the party. Print this blank photo scavenger hunt printable to make your own list:

Blank Photo Scavenger Hunt List

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The above list can be changed and altered for more of a challenge by adding scavenger hunt clues and riddles. Check out these two whole pages full of scavenger hunt clues and scavenger hunt riddles.

After each team comes back from the scavenger hunt, it's best to meet up at home or a place each team can connect their camera to a TV or computer (that way everyone can look at all the pictures that were taken on the photo scavenger hunt).

When the hunt is over, a great keepsake is to make a scrapbook full of pictures that were taken on the scavenger hunt. You can also send out a picture to each guest with thank-you cards. Here are some great photo scavenger hunt thank-you cards you can print and send out:

Worded Photo Scavenger Thank-Yous	Blank Photo Scavenger Thank-Yous
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Don't forget to read and make sure the kids know the scavenger hunt rules before going on the scavenger hunt.

You'll find more scavenger hunt ideas for kids on our Main Scavenger Hunt Ideas Page.

The photo scavenger hunt is only one of many cool scavenger hunts. Don't forget to check out all of our other scavenger hunts:

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We'd love for you to take a moment and submit your own Scavenger Hunt ideas.

If you'd like share your complete Scavenger Hunt party with us, then once your party is over, send us your own PARTY TALE and we'll create your very own theme party page and photo gallery that's hosted on our site! (Family, friends and just about anybody will be able to find inspiration from your child's birthday party and comment on YOUR ideas!)

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