Holiday scavenger hunt

[Customize!] Local Christmas tradition

A question or task about a specific Christmas tradition of your group. (Organizers: come up with a question or photo task, e.g. "What date does grandma always cook Christmas dinner?" or "Photo by the tree where mum always hangs a specific star.")

[Customize!] The spooky house

A task or question about a specific Halloween element in your area. (Organizers: come up with a question or photo task, e.g. "Photo by the house at number 12 with the pumpkins on the porch" or "What is the name of the neighbour who puts up the most decorations every year?".)

Bake-off

Bake or design a Christmas cookie, gingerbread or something edible in a Christmas shape together. It can be a clumsy decoration of fruit or bread. Photo of the result.

Bat hunt

Find a bat (decoration, sticker, drawn on a window, cut from paper). Take a photo with the team copying its pose.

Best face paint

The most professionally face-painted person of the night. Take a close-up photo of the face.

Candy hunt

Gather as much candy as you can (ask for it, buy it, find it at home) and take a photo with all the candy in one pile. The more, the better.

Christmas carol belt

Record a short video of the team singing one line of a Christmas carol. "Last Christmas", "Jingle Bells", "Silent Night", you choose.

Christmas film scene

Act out a scene from a famous Christmas film with your team (Home Alone, Love Actually, The Grinch, Frozen). Take a photo or short video of it.

Christmas greeting to a stranger

Ask a stranger (a cashier, a market vendor, a passerby) to wish you a merry Christmas, and wish it back. Photo together.

Christmas lights hunt

Find the most beautiful or most over-the-top Christmas lights you can: a house, a street, a window full of fairy lights. Take a photo of it.

Christmas market stall

If you are at a Christmas market: photo by the most festive stall. If you are at home: build your own little stall with things on a table.

Christmas tree pose

Find a Christmas tree (at home, in a square, in a shop window) and take a group photo by the tree. The more decorated, the better.

Christmas wreath

Find a Christmas wreath (on a door, in a shop window, on a table) and take a team photo with it. It can be a real wreath or a silly version made of food or paper.

Creepiest snack

Make something edible that looks creepy: sausage fingers, olive eyeballs, pasta snakes, a bloody ketchup snack. Photo of the result.

Final photo by the tree

Closing challenge: a big group photo by a Christmas tree (at home or outdoors). Everyone in it, everyone smiling. Merry Christmas.

Final photo of the Halloween crew

Closing challenge: a big team photo with everyone in full Halloween mode. Pumpkins, costumes, candy bags, all in it. Trick or treat!

Ghost pose

The whole team poses as ghosts: arms up, mouths open, white sheets or jackets over their heads. Photo in the spookiest pose you can manage.

Ghost video

Record a short video of the team making the creepiest sounds you can: screaming, moaning, cackling like a witch. Ten seconds max.

Kick-off with a mask

First team photo with everyone in costume or masked. It can be a paper mask, a sheet over your head or a real costume.

Make a jack-o-lantern

Carve or draw a face on a pumpkin, orange or piece of paper. Take a photo of the jack-o-lantern, with a candle if you can.

Nativity or Christmas decoration

Spot a nativity scene, a reindeer decoration, a snowman or another Christmas figure. Take a photo where your team imitates its pose.

Pumpkin pose

Find a pumpkin (real, paper, rubber or hand-drawn) and take a photo where someone copies the pumpkin's expression.

Quiz: Classic Christmas colours

Which two colours are traditionally associated with Christmas?

Quiz: Halloween colours

Which two colours are classically associated with Halloween?