Inside Halloween Scavenger Hunt

If the weather is just unbearable or if you don’t have an area outside to do a scavenger hunt you can always have one in the classroom. Kids enjoy the hunt as much as they do going outside. Plus you have a little more control over where the kids will go and what they can find.

Most of the items you want the children to find such as pencils or a certain color crayon will mean the need for specific rules. You will have to explain to them that they have to find the items where you hid them not in their own belongings. This will make the hunt much more fun for all involved.

You can also hide things such as small pumpkins, Halloween treats and other goodies that might be harder to do if you were doing an outside hunt. Be sure that whatever you hide you make it easy for the children to find.

Start with something relatively easy to find. This game needs to be fun for the children and if you make the items things the children don’t know or have a hard time finding right at the beginning they will become bored and frustrated with the game.

Be sure each child has a bag to collect his or her treasures in. Choose bags that will fit the size and number of items they are looking for – brown paper lunch bags work great for this. Children can be upset easily if they start to lose items they have collected or can’t hold the bag because it’s too full.

Also put a time limit on how long you allow the children to look for a certain item. Sometimes they can have a hard time finding what they are looking for and their determination keeps them looking and looking. Remember not all the children will find every item so don’t let them stay at it too long before announcing the next item they should look for.

After you have finished the list, let the children see what all they have collected. They will be surprised at how many items they found and you will be too. Let them keep everything they found. You can also give a final prize to the person or persons who found the most items if you choose. This is a fun game for children and can be helpful in their learning experience at the same time.