Picture Scavenger Hunt
Pictures are worth a thousand words and nearly everyone carries a photo of somebody or something with them. When you have a new class, you can use these photos for a scavenger hunt!
What you need…
You need to prepare a scavenger hunt lists, which you should make in advance. A typical one for an introductory class might look something like this:
- Family portrait
- View of home town
- Child laughing/crying
- Baby’s first photo
- Family pet
- Bride and groom
- Distribute your scavenger lists.
- Give the class a specific time frame to find someone who has one of the photos, e.g. 30 minutes.
- Persuade them to find a new person for each item.
It may be impossible to finish the list, so set a realistic goal (find seven out of ten).
This is a natural energizer that has people moving around constantly.
Possible follow ups…
- You can adapt this for specific topics by finding a bunch of photos on Google relating to topic-specific vocabulary and distribute these to the members of the class. Adapt your scavenger hunt list accordingly.
- If using this in the first lesson of a new class, ask each person to give their name and share which photo they liked best and why.
- How would you adapt this?
- Are there any age groups you’d use this with specifically?
- How would you set up the activity differently?
In case you’re wondering, this is why I’m doing this!