Operation Egghead the Great Easter Scavenger Hunt for all ages

This Easter scavenger hunt game is not your traditional Easter Egg hunt. It includes a variety of exciting activities for all ages to keep everyone involved. There are team road challenges, mystery challenges, puzzles to solve, and of course a SCAVENGER HUNT loaded with surprises! It not only promotes fun and team building, it also gets you to discover your town or community and celebrate the holiday at the same time.

This Easter hunt includes driving or walking to places in your community but we provide alternative suggestions if driving or leaving the premises is not possible. Use our scavenger hunt ideas as templates for your own hunt.

AGE RANGE: This scavenger hunt game is an excellent event for families of all ages, kids/teens, youth groups, school groups, and even workplaces.

NUMBER OF TEAMS/PLAYERS: Unlimited.
What if you only have a few kids participating in this Easter hunt? Instead of dividing them into teams, you can keep them all on one team and have them race against the clock, giving the single team a time limit to complete each section of the hunt, report back to you and bribe you for the next section and so on until the hunt is complete.

LENGTH OF HUNT: About 3 hours from start to finish. *The more teams you have, the more time it will take. After the hunt, a 1-hour time slot is recommended to share team's findings, tell their exciting stories, total the points and award the Great Easter Hunters. There are other optional activities that could be added to extend the celebration of the holiday.

PRE-HUNT PREP TIME: For up to 6 teams, you can put our scavenger hunts together in about 3 to 6 hours (includes shopping for supplies, reading the scavenger hunt and prepping/printing the materials). As you add teams, you'll need to add time to the pre-hunt prep.

THE WINNING TEAM: We include fun "Personal Award" award certificates. Participants can cast their votes for the most enthusiastic person, the person with the wackiest ideas and more. In addition we have the Great Hunt "Grand Prize" award to the team who scores the most points overall.

THIS EASTER HUNT INCLUDES FRIENDLY, HELPFUL SUPPORT AND THE FOLLOWING TEMPLATES:
All templates are formatted in Microsoft Word and are ready to print as is with space available to either type in or handwrite in the personalized details. Any of the templates can be modified if required.

Team List: a poster that can be printed to display all the team and player names

Team Instructions and Rules: small poster that can be printed to review with all participants at the start of the event

The Team Challenge: team challenge sheet for creating their team name and mascot

The Road Challenge: team challenge sheets for community discovery and mystery location challenges

The Scavenger Hunt: team scavenger hunt list

The Puzzle Challenge: team puzzle challenge sheet

The Awards: a small poster that can be printed outlining the personal and team award prizes

The Player Voting Slips: participant voting slips for the Personal Award Prizes (Example: "I'm So Egg-cited Award" for the most enthusiastic participant)

The Awards Certificates: ready to go certificates that can be printed for the personal and team award

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BUY/PROVIDE: Team collection bags (plastic shopping bags or something fancier - your choice) and other inexpensive items (like plastic Easter eggs, arts & craft supplies, pens, clipboards and prizes). We also suggest that one team member from each team brings their digital camera. We'll let you know exactly what you need to get in our handy facilitators' guide that comes with this scavenger hunt.

EXAMPLES:
As you can see from what's included (see above), this game has several fun challenge categories. We also offer additional options and suggestions that will help you adapt this hunt to best suit your needs. Add to that it's completely editable - take out what you can't use or adapt the challenges to your particular party or child.

Road Challenge Example: Go to the restaurant closest to our party location and find these answers: (there are a series of 5 questions they must answer, each correct answer is worth 100 points; they must also be sure to go to the correct restaurant!). There are 6 additional road challenges including one section that is all in riddle form.

NOTE: We provide alternative suggestions if driving or leaving the premises is not possible.

The Scavenger Hunt Collections List Examples (the editable list contains over 70 items):
a recipe that uses 4 eggs
a dictionary
an egg poacher
The Puzzle Challenge is a series of words the teams must unscramble to answer a riddle. Bonus points to the team that brings back the item in the riddle.