TEAM BUILDING SKILLS - HUMAN SCAVENGER HUNT

Objective:  To search for commonalties among group members and to get to know more about each other

Break the group into smaller groups of about six people.  Have each group stand or sit together in a place that is separate from the other groups but equal distance from you-the leader who stands in the middle.

Read one item from the list at a time.  The team who sends up a person or group of people to you first that fits the description you have just given earns a point.  For example, you might say “two people who have the same middle name” and within each group, the members must talk, find out if any two have the same middle name, and then quickly send those people up to you.  The first group of people with the same middle name to reach you earns a point for their team.  You may give a bonus point for different items it is applies-for instance, if a group has three people with the same middle name they may earn a point for this round even if they were not the first group to get to you.  The group with the most points at the end wins.

Questions:

1. Two people who have the same first and last initial
2. The person in your group who was born the farthest away from here
3. Two people with the same middle name
4. A group of people who ages add up to 100
5. Two people with the same birthday (r month)
6. A group of people who shoe sizes add up to 40
7. The person in your group who lives closest to here
8. A group of people who have attend school for at total of 38 years
9. A group of people who can spell a word by putting together the first letters of their first names
10. A group of three people who all have different colored eyes
11.  Two people who work in the same kind of business
12.  A group of three people who play different sports
13.  A group of three people who are in different clubs
14.  Two people in the same club

Variations:

Ask for items such as “a 1982 coin” or “an expired drivers license” or any other items that group members may be able to find in their pockets, purses, wallets, or on themselves.

Add a stunt to each item on the list-for example, “two people who have the same first and last initial must leap frog up to me”

 

Sandy Atkinson
Franklin High School  
Franklin VA
(Credit:  “Mix It Up”  Team-Building Activities for Every Group)