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Topic: Staff Christmas Party Scavenger Hunt

Question: I would like to do a scavenger hunt for my staff's Christmas party next week. There is a language problem because a third of my staff does not speak English very well; they are of Hispanic tongue. I want everyone to be able to participate and don't want their lack in the English language to ruin their fun. I would also like some ideas for a successful scavenger hunt with a Christmas theme. Is this something you can help me with?

Answer: You're right... the language barrier makes things a tad more difficult.

1. If you choose to hide items you could hand out a page of pictures of the items to look for rather than a written list. To make it more difficult, you could use the Find Me Scavenger Hunt idea and take pictures of a small piece of each item you are setting up around your party area, photographing enough to make the item possible to find, but difficult.

2. If you have good pictures of your staff and you have access to photo editing programs or scanners, you could make crazy pictures up using 1/2 of two different employees' faces or 1/4 of four different employees' faces and have your staff guess whose faces were used to make these new faces. Make it fit your Christmas theme by mounting these faces on bristol board and cutting around the outside of the faces. Attach a folded triangle behind them so they'll sit upright, and put Santa, elf or reindeer hats on them. (Don't know if this is too much work for you, but it sure would be fun and funny, and add some lovely decor to your party location). If you need further instructions on this, just let me know.

3. If you didn't come across them already in your search, the Crazy Christmas Scavenger Hunt or a variation of the Jigsaw Puzzle Scavenger Hunt would work well for your specifications.

4. I have no idea how big your party venue is, but you could set a time limit, give each team a different Christmas color.... green, red, gold, silver, etc., and have them find as many items as possible in their color.

Topic: Church Christmas Party Scavenger Hunt

Question: I need a scavenger hunt for a church Christmas Party for about 70 people... needs to stay within one or two rooms.

Answer: Here are some ideas that may or may not work for you:

1. Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle Scavenger Hunt - Use the Jigsaw Puzzle Scavenger Hunt on this site and tailor it for Christmas.

2. Christmas Scramble Scavenger Hunt - Decide how many teams you would like to have. Pick 3-5 items per team. Hide these items. Print the letters that spell out each item on colored paper and cut into squares (one color per team - one letter per square) - about 12 letters per sheet of paper. Hide these letters. Teams have to find their letters, unscramble them and be the first to find their items.

Before the hunt begins let each team know what color letters they are looking for, how many letters they are looking for and how many words these letters spell. (Be sure you work it that each team has to find the same number of letters.)

Eg. Green team - green paper
Items - Star, Bell, Snowman
Print letters on green paper and cut into squares so that there is one letter per square - print in CAPS.
S T A R B E L L S N O W M A N
Green team must find all of their letters, unscramble them and then find their items.

Red team - red paper
Items - Angel, Manger, Card
Print letters on red paper and cut into squares so that there is one letter per square - print in CAPS.
A N G E L M A N G E R C A R D Green team must find all of their letters, unscramble them and then find their items.

3. Christmas Memories Scavenger Hunt - Print a grid of 12-15 squares on a sheet of paper with one memory per square. (eg. Was the lead angel in a Christmas play, sang a solo in a Christmas cantata, spent last Christmas day in a foreign country, received a musical instrument for Christmas last year.) Each person gets a copy of this paper and has to go around and be the first to get a signature in each box. A person can sign as many sheets as are applicable, but may only sign any one person's sheet once. Notify them of this beforehand. (Mr. Smith cannot sign Timmy's sheet in three different squares, but he may sign one square on Timmy's sheet, one on Mrs. Brown's sheet, etc....)

4. Hide all the pieces of the nativity and have your guests hunt for them.

5. Make up clues for items to find (eg. A striped sweet treat would be a candy cane). If you need my help with clues you will have to send me a list of items you want to hide asap.


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