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Christian Scavenger Hunt Clues For Christmas

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Christian scavenger hunt cluesLast week we gave you the 12 Days of Christmas scavenger hunt clues. This week we have a set of free Christian scavenger hunt clues for Christmas, as many of the clues come straight from the Bible.

You can use the same rules as for the previous scavenger hunt:

Resources

  • Cameras
  • Christian scavenger hunt clues
  • Projector & screen (if you want to show the pictures after the hunt)
  • Prizes for the winners (optional)
  • 1 copy of the scorecard per team (this is for you to score them – don’t give the scorecards to the youth)
  • They might need a Bible with them – this will help improve their Bible knowledge and is a fun activity to help do that!

Instructions

Go to a mall, town center shopping area or high street.

Divide the youth up into teams and send one or two adult youth workers or volunteers with each group. If your youth are old enough they could go by themselves, but we used it as a good time for building relationships with the youth.

Give each team a list of the Christian scavenger hunt clues. Encourage creativity and humor! For example, if the answer is ‘Bethlehem’ they could create a photo that has a girl named Beth (who doesn’t know an Elizabeth?!) laying next to a ham – ‘Beth-lay-ham.’

Remind them of any group agreements you have about behavior in public, or come up with a few on the spot. You may also want to establish ground rules about buying things for the photos. Decide ahead of time if groups are allowed to purchase items for the pictures. Consider giving them $5 each for incidentals if buying is OK, so that all teams have a level playing field.

Give them their time limit and meeting location and send them off.

Winners

The team with the most points at the end wins!

Don’t forget to get photo release forms completed if you want to display any of the photos elsewhere (like on your youth group website).

Next week we’ll have one more photo scavenger hunt – this one will be a holiday scavenger hunt list that includes Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

If you liked this idea, we have a separate site that has many different ideas for Christmas scavenger hunts. We’ve also published a book that has dozens more of these fun activities, so get your copy of 52 Scavenger Hunt ideas now.

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Christmas Scavenger Hunt Clues

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Christmas scavenger hunt clues12 Days of Christmas Youth Photo Scavenger Hunt

Christmas is always a great time to organize fun youth events, so here are some free Christmas scavenger hunt clues for you to use with your youth group.

This Christmas photo scavenger hunt is great fun. It can take up to 2 hours, or more if you also show the pictures afterwards. You split youth into teams and send them out into a public space with a time limit to capture as many photos as they can of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’.

They should use their imaginations and not look for the obvious, like a real partridge in a real pear tree. We had a team that took 2 books with trees on the cover and put an Alan Partridge DVD in the middle of them and snapped a pic – a ‘Partridge’ in a ‘pair of’ trees – brilliant! Give points for creativity.

At the end, the group comes back together with their photos and watches them together. You score the photos and give prizes (optional) to the winners! And really, it’s so much fun, everybody wins!

You can do this 12 Days Of Christmas scavenger hunt as a photo or video scavenger hunt. You can use a digital camera or just cellphones, and since there are 1.8 billion youth cell phone accounts worldwide, chances are you have 1 or 2 in your youth program.

Your youth can earn extra points for creativity, for including a kind passer-by and anything else you want to give bonus points for. You could also make this a mini-media project by having the groups put their pictures into slide shows and caption them.

Resources

  • Cameras
  • List of the 12 Days of Christmas Scavenger Hunt Clues
  • Projector & Screen (if you want to show the pictures after the hunt)
  • Prizes for the Winners (optional)
  • 1 copy of the scorecard per team (this is for you to score them – don’t give the scorecards to the youth)

Instructions

Go to a mall, town center shopping area or high street.

Divide the youth up into teams and send one or two adult youth workers or volunteers with each group. If your youth are old enough they could go by themselves, but we used it as a good time for building relationships with the youth.

Give each team a list of the 12 Days of Christmas scavenger hunt clues. Encourage creativity and humor! In the UK, we had one group doing ‘4 Calling Birds’ as 4 girls talking on their cell phones (Englishism: ‘birds’ are girls or women) and ‘7 Swans-a-swimming’ where they took a photo of 7 ‘Swan matches’ floating in a puddle.

Remind them of any group agreements you have about behavior in public, or come up with a few on the spot. You may also want to establish ground rules about buying things for the photos. Decide ahead of time if groups are allowed to purchase items for the pictures. Consider giving them $5 each for incidentals if buying is OK, so that all teams have a level playing field.

Give them their time limit and meeting location and send them off.

Winners

The team with the most points at the end wins!

Important Note: In many shopping centers, it’s not OK to take photos inside stores or have groups of youth hanging out. One thing you can do is be proactive and contact the mall ahead of time to discuss the particulars of your hunt. This will help foster a good relationship in your community and promote a positive image for youth.

If you want to use the pictures for anything but internal use, you’ll also need to have Photo Release Forms completed.

If you’re looking for other things to do with your youth this holiday season, check out the 12 WAYS of Christmas about youth volunteering and fundraising during the holidays.

If you liked this idea, check out our sister site that has many other Christmas scavenger hunt ideas.

You’ll also love our book – 52 Scavenger Hunt Ideas. You can order the paperback and Kindle versions from Amazon or you can get a digital copy directly from us.

Question: What would you add to the Christmas Scavenger Hunt Clues? Create a conversation in the comments below.

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