Scavenger Hunt Ideas

A restaurant napkin
A family recipe from a local resident
A take-out menu from a chinese restaurant
A copy of the front page of the local newspaper (can`t buy the newspaper!)
A bag full of as much trash you can pick up (can`t take from trash cans!)
A fortune cookie (extra points if the word "happy" appears in the the fortune cookie note)
A change of address card from the post-office
A "buy one, get one free" coupon
A receipt for 30 cents worth of gas
Catch a bus from ____ to ____ and bring back the ticket
A business card of a lawyer (extra points if his first name is "John")
A disposable toilet seat cover
A stranger`s autograph (extra points if his/her name is "Jordan")
Atleast 50 cents worth of money found on the floor
If you want to make things a bit harder, great scavenger hunt list ideas is to add things that have a specific color, touch, smell, sound, or any other characteristic.

To spice things up, add things to the list each team will need to photograph and/or video-tape. Here are a few example scavenger hunt list ideas of photographs each team needs to come back with:

Entire team in the dark with flashlights at their faces
Entire team sitting with an unknown family at a restaurant (1 extra point for each person in the picture who is smiling)
Someone who is atleast 85 years old (while holding their ID)
Entire team with someone famous (extra points if it`s someone famous that none of the teammates personally know)
Entire team`s reflection in something other than a mirror
One of the members of the team standing in front of (or sitting on) a statue
Entire team in a pet store (extra points for each team-member holding an animal)
Entire team in a bathtub or shower (with clothes on of course...) (extra points if everyone is wearing shower caps on their heads)
Entire team standing by a red convertible car (extra points if everyone is sitting in the convertible car with the car`s owner)
Entire team on a spiral staircase
A team member hugging a stranger
One teammate jumping off of a swing (he/she must be in mid-air in the photograph)
A teammate pumping gas in a stranger`s car
Entire team standing right next to a Harley Davidson (extra points if biker is in the photo)
A teammate playing with a pinball machine
The entire team on a tree
Entire team on a slide (one in front of the other)
Entire team in front of an ice-cream truck (extra points if everyone is licking an ice-cream)
A team member sitting on a fire truck with a fireman
A member of your group handcuffed to a police officer
Entire team playing Twister
Entire team "I can`t believe we all fit in here!" (extra points for the most creative...)
Graffiti in a washroom
Atleast 3 teammates helping fold clothes in a public laundry mat
Entire team with a mascot
The whole team standing in a boat
The entire team sharing one soda (each teammate has their own straw)
Entire team in a phone booth
Atleast two teammates in a dog-house
A team-member delivering a meal to a stranger in a restaurant
Atleast two members standing on a diving board
Entire team behind a display window of a retail store acting out as a store window display
Entire team jumping (everyone must be in mid-air for the picture to count)
The following example scavenger hunt list ideas are video-taping scenarios each team needs to video-tape:

Get a policeman/women to sing your country`s national anthem (from beginning to end!)
Do a dramatic earthquake scene in a public place (extra points if on the video the scene really looks like an earthquake)
A man with a beard shaking hands with someone on your team
Entire team needs to stage a Kung-Fu battle on the sidewalk outside a prestigious hotel
A teammate walking the dog of someone you all don`t know
One or more members of the team singing at a karaoke bar
Get all your teammates inside shopping carts (except for whoever is pushing the carts and whoever is videotaping) and roll the carts from on end of the super market to the other
A team-member break dancing in the middle of a mall
A little kid singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
A teammate washing the window of a stranger`s car (ask first...)
The whole team sings a famous song from a famous movie while standing in front of a movie theater
Go to a toy store and someone on your team yells "OH MY GOSH IT`S A BARBIE!!" really loud
The whole team doing the Macarena dance together in a public place
One or more members of a team standing under a public clock at an exact time (such as 1:24 p.m.)
A teammate asking a stranger if they can marry them (extra points if the stranger says "Yes")
Atleast two teammates hanging upside down on the monkey bars singing the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the tune of a Beatles song
A dog relieving himself on a fire hydrant
Get a stranger to let you bowl for him/her during their own game (extra points if you get a Strike)
A team member going to a department store and trying on a shirt or dress that is several sizes too small, then asking the clerk if it fits
Someone on the team chugging an entire can of soda and then belching
Getting a guy to try on a dress
Any of the teammates doing a performance skit (could be anything - juggling, dancing, singing, etc.) in the middle of a very crowded street (extra points if someone gives money at the end of the skit) OR Several members of the team joining a street entertainer in his/her act
A team member washing dishes at a restaurant
A teammate hanging upside-down on monkey bars for at least 10 seconds while making monkey sounds
Convince a stranger to let you taste their food
A team member spontaneously interviewing 3 strangers: ask "what is your conception of God?"
A team member reciting a love poem to a stranger (extra points if it`s in a Shakespearian way)
An unknown couple