Photo Scavenger Hunt

    Last night at Charlestown JYs I was able to help out by planning and facilitating a teams photo scavenger hunt. Teams head out with a Leader to shoot a [10] compulsory images and a choice of [5] from a long list of creative options. Last night's list had some tailored requests considering the proximity to a McDonald's outlet and the possibility of making it to Charlestown Square Shopping Centre if your team stayed focused [and ran fast]
You need:
- a digital camera for each team
- Team Leaders
- TV or data projection to view results
- prizes
- well thought out instructions
- sheet of instructions, photo options etc with clipart etc
- Teams stay together and with Leader

[10] Compulsory Photos
Team in mid air celebrating in a creative location
Entire Team posing as Ronald McDonald
Team as a human pyramid
Team making funny faces in an interesting setting
Team making the shape of a Christian symbol on the ground using your own bodies
As many shoelaces as you can tie together stretched out
Entire Team playing air guitar in a public space
Team holding [2] team members off the ground
A picture of something starting with the letter ‘k’
A packet of lollies

[5] only from this List

Team saying ‘hello’ to a Police Officer

Team wearing hats
Team member in front of a funny sign
Team mimic a statue or fountain
Team group photo with a friendly stranger
Someone having a ‘Bad Hair Day’
A picture of Pizza
Team re-enact a famous scene from history
Team re-enact a famous sporting victory
Team ‘head to toe’ on the footpath
Picture of somebody with a trophy
A couple holding hands with at least one of the people not in your team
Picture of a sign showing the current temperature [not a phone app]
Team member in front of a sign with their name on it
Team in front of an Australian flag
Scavenger Hunt’ definition in the dictionary
Team member with exactly 75c in coins
Other team members holding up one team member off the ground in a chair
Team member under a light fitting as though having a brilliant idea
Team Toyota advertisement ‘Oh What a Feeling!!!’
Team member with their head under a running cold water tap
Team member kissing a McDonald’s employee on the face cheek
Team member wearing outer clothes inside out
Team on the other side looking through a glass window
Team checking out a Takeaway menu
A Logo or a sign with a star on it
A member of another team taking a photo of something
Team in a photo featuring all the main colours of the rainbow
e.g. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
Team re-enact a famous movie scene
Team doing exactly what a sign in the photo says to do
Team in a playground and/or on swings
Photo of something that shouldn’t be there
Photo of something nobody in the Team knows how to use

Under time pressure both teams did a great job with some very creative images...

We also looked at half a dozen images and reflected on and asked what people saw in the image, including a modern take on JC and one of his key visual theme stories... to wrap the evening!!