Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

Make your daily walks more interesting for kids with a neighborhood scavenger hunt. Create your own or download ours.

Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

We go on a walk around the neighborhood pretty much every day sometimes 2 or 3 times if the weather is nice enough. We need exercise and we need to get out of the house, but sometimes the kids need a little more motivation. Scavenger hunts have been super helpful.

We have done our Backyard Bird Scavenger Hunt multiple times. I place this scavenger hunt page in a plastic sheet protector on a clipboard and give the kids a wet erase marker.

We’ve also gone on a color hunt. I used the Rainbow Scavenger Hunt from The Many Little Joys. I downloaded the pdf to my phone and used the mark up feature to allow Lily and Elon to color in the square when they found that color on our walk.

Make Your Own Scavenger Hunt

This time we decided to make our own scavenger hunt. I asked the kids to think of things they might see as we walked around the neighborhood.

Aiden was first to offer some ideas. I drew his suggestions on the iPad. I’m not the best at drawing and probably could have had him or Lily do the illustrating instead. (Your drawings don’t need to be perfect.)

You could just make a list of items to find but drawing the items and writing their names underneath will help kids with reading practice.

Lily and Elon added their suggestions for what we might see as well. When I filled the page, I saved the note as a pdf and sent it to my phone.

We used the mark up feature to mark off the items as we saw them. Lily and Elon both got their own color. (Aiden rode his bike, so he didn’t mark anything off. He said he found everything as he was riding down a hill in the neighborhood.)

Feel free to download our Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt to try on your next walk. Or draw your own!

Sometimes they take a kid camera along for the walk and photograph objects from a scavenger hunt list.

Sometimes we go for a walk in the rain. Everyone puts on their rain jackets and we head out. We keep a mental list of what we see. When we get home, we talk about the objects and mark them off of the list.

More Scavenger Hunts and Treasure Hunts to Try

Check out our collection of more than 40 scavenger hunts and treasure hunts for kids.

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