The Perfect At-Home Scavenger Hunt for Scouting Families
If you are reading this, you may be in the market to find some awesome activities for your Scouts to get into while at home. Be sure to check out the rest of the blog, where you can find ideas on how to continue earning advancements (for both Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA) AND some fun general activities (like making ice cream from scratch or how to make a flower pot from scratch!).
I put together another fun, Scouting-inspired activity for your family to do while at home, because there is always that time of day (hello 11am and 4pm… #sendhelp) where it would be nice to have something to do (parents who are working from home, I see you… and parents who aren’t currently working and have no idea how to keep everyone occupied right now, I see you too. Lol.) If you really are looking to up the ante, do it virtually with other family members in different households OR your Scouting buddies!
The Rules:
- Set the parameters of the hunt. All items need to be found in the house or in the backyard.
- To increase the challenge level, items must be found in order.
- This is run on the honor system! As items are spotted, they can be crossed off. To stave off arguments, I suggest that kids need to get within touching distance of indoor objects and within 6 feet of the outdoor items they are marking off (so that nobody can spot something from a block away and mark it off!).
- Set a time frame and an alarm.
- Come up with a reward – winner’s get to delegate a chore to someone else, choose what’s on the menu for dinner, get to choose the show to watch, the sky’s the limit here!
The List:
- First aid kit
- Pocket knife
- School backpack
- Red marker
- Dog
- Loaf of bread
- Blue throw pillow
- Saw or axe
- Phone charger
- Ladder
- Jewelry box
- Tennis shoes
- Bicycle
- Flip flops
- Scouting America handbook
- Tent
- Hammock
- Grill
- Water spigot
- Ball
- Tissues
- Vegetable
- Mailbox
- Flower
- Stapler
- $0.56 in spare change
- Framed picture
- Bug
- Merit badge or adventure loop
- Piece of rope
- Compass
- Pinewood Derby car (Don’t have one? I know a place you can get one :D … but in all seriousness, making a Pinewood Derby car for fun would be another great at-home activity!)
Pro Tip: Add any number of bonus points for completing a few “housekeeping” chores (put all dirty clothes in their room in the hamper/laundry room, put all shoes away, wipe down all hard surfaces in their room/bathroom with a disinfectant cleaner).
Be sure to share your #ScoutScavengerHunt pictures with us on Instagram by using the hashtag or by tagging us (@scoutshop_bsa)! If you are looking for more activity ideas, be sure to check out the rest of the blog – we’ve lots of ideas for Scouts, from “just for fun” activities, to a blog on how Cub Scouts can work on earning adventure loops at home and for Scouts in the Scouts BSA program to continue earning their merit badges while #ScoutingAtHome.
