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Scavenger Hunt Printable

Free printable scavenger hunts for 11 occasions, from a nature walk to Halloween and Christmas, plus writing prompts and a wish list that asks why. Use the ready-made list or paste in your own.

11 occasionsHunt, prompts, wish listYour own itemsPDF · SVG
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Four steps

How to make a scavenger hunt

  1. 1

    Pick the occasion

    Or use the nature walk, which works all year.

  2. 2

    Adapt the list

    Type your own items for a specific place or trip.

  3. 3

    Choose one or two columns

    Two fits more; one is easier for young children.

  4. 4

    Print and go outside

    A clipboard helps more than anything else.

Findable beats festive

The failure mode of printed scavenger hunts is items chosen because they sound seasonal rather than because they exist. A child who cannot find the third thing on the list stops playing, and no amount of themed clip art fixes that.

Every list here is ordinary things in a house, a street or a park, with a few deliberately open ones such as “a cloud shaped like something” or “something older than you”, which cannot be got wrong and tend to produce the best conversations.

The occasions

No characters, no brands

Everything here is generic on purpose: a reindeer rather than a named one, a witch rather than a franchise. Partly that is a rights position, and partly it is practical. A generic sheet works in any classroom, in any country, and it does not go out of date when a film stops being popular.

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The word search and bingo generators take any word list, so the vocabulary for each occasion can be pasted in. Mazes and colouring pages round out a party pack.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Items a child can actually find. A hunt listing things nobody owns fails in the only way that matters: after three items they stop looking. The lists here are ordinary things in a house, a street or a park, with a few open-ended ones such as "a cloud shaped like something" that cannot be got wrong.

Yes, and your list replaces the preset entirely. That matters for a school trip or a specific site, where the useful hunt is the one built around what is actually there rather than a generic one.

Because a list of wants is a list of demands, and a list with reasons is a conversation. It also makes the sheet useful for longer: a child rereading why they wanted something in January learns more than one rereading what they wanted.

No, deliberately. Everything here is generic: reindeer rather than a named one, a witch rather than a franchise. That is partly a rights question and partly practical, since a generic sheet works in any classroom and any country and does not date.

The word search and bingo generators take any word list, so the words for each occasion can be pasted straight in to make a themed puzzle. That is a better use of them than a fixed themed generator, because you can add your own class vocabulary.

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