Kids Running - Scavenger Hunt

SCAVENGER HUNT by Molly Barker
When I first started developing KidsRunning.Com in the year 2000, Molly Barker of Girls on the Run graciously "loaned" us some of her games. Here is one.

Set up a scavenger hunt around your yard and house. Get into pairs (you must stay with your partner at all times) and see who can complete the scavenger hunt first. You can make the items to get fairly simple.

1. Find three leaves.

2. Run/walk two laps around the yard/house and mark your hand with a marker for each one you've completed.

3. Get two adult's signatures on the back side of a piece of paper. Make sure to thank them.

4. Find something blue.

5. Go to the refrigerator and get a "Girls on the Run" treat. Eat it before you go to the next item.

6. Find something prickly.

7. Find a person under the age of 25 and get them to record their signature and date of birth on the piece of paper.

8.Find a piece of trash on the ground and take it to a trashcan.

9. Find something smooth.

10. Find something useless.

11. Skip one lap around the yard/ house with your partner and mark your hand >with a marker when you are done.

12. Do ten jumping jacks.

When you have completed the entire scavenger hunt, return to where the group started, lie down on the ground, and act like a dead bug (lie down on your bag and wiggle your arms and legs in the air like a dying bug!)

Even though this was a fun scavenger hunt, did you have to run/walk to complete it? Running can be fun, can't it? It doesn't have to be just running around a track or just running. We can make games that involve running like this one!
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