SCavenger Hunts
Time: 5-15 minutes
Materials: None
Activity: Send kids or pairs of kids around the play area to search for items. Hunt targets can be “bring back” or just “find and come back to report”. Target ideas: things that are colors, shapes, textures, sizes, locations, pretty/ugly, or items with other descriptors; numbers of a thing or things that make letters (e.g. 3 trees together or a stick shaped like a y); natural or human objects that are a little hard to find such as bugs, a perfect leaf, a bird, a squirrel, a kid your age, a piece of trash, etc.; or relational targets such as something you can fit under/in, something taller/shorter than you, something bigger/smaller than a cat.
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