Are you looking for a fun game for your annual family Christmas party? This Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt will do the trick.
We played this Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt as a prelude to our annual family Christmas party (to get the excitement started early) and it was a big hit! If your family is in any way competitive, there will be lots of excitement!
This is a photo scavenger hunt. No one has to bring back anything. Just have everyone use their Smart phones to snap pics of the displays.
Needed to play
Smartphone for taking and sending pictures
Social media event page (Facebook or Instagram make it very easy to upload pictures and have an ongoing conversation)
How to Play
We started the game about a week before the actual party.
We created an event page on Facebook where everyone could upload the pictures as they found the items on the list.
I kept track of everyone’s progress myself but they can also see each other’s progress on the event page. (It is entirely possible that a very competitive person will wait and upload all of their pictures at one time!)
Variation: You can make the rules however you wish to suit your crowd. If you want to pick teams and all load up into vehicles and head out to do it all in one night, you can!
Because we did our family scavenger hunt game competition over a week’s time, there were text messages flying, ramping up the competition for the whole week!
Wait!
If you really want to make it competitive, wait until the day of the party to release a couple of additions to the list so that everyone has to find those items on the way to the party.
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Millie says
snow monster! ahhhhh!! lol 🙂 what a fun idea and anyone could join in! love it! Thanks for sharing at the Christmas in July party!
Lou Lou Girls says
Super cute idea! Pinned and tweeted. Thank you for being a part of our party. I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. It wouldn’t be a party without you!
Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
Karen says
Wowzers! This is so amazing!! Loads of fun for sure! Thanks so much for sharing this! 🙂
Renew Your Space says
This looks like loads of fun! Great idea 😀 ~Renee
Shirley Wood says
Thanks Renee. It really is loads of fun 🙂
Amanda Smith says
This is so fun! I want to do this with my grand kids next week. Great idea! They are the perfect age for something like this and so is our youngest son.
Shirley Wood says
Have fun with it Amanda. Go write on my fb wall and tell us all about it/share pix with us!
Misty says
Another great idea! I want to come celebrate Christmas at your house. You guys seem to have ALL of the fun! 😉
Shirley Wood says
That’s funny Misty. There is some fun taking place with this Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt though 🙂 We are talking it up on our event page.
Kristen from The Road to Domestication says
What a great idea, Shirley! We look at lights every year, but I never thought about doing that scavenger-hunt style!
Alli says
What a wonderful, fun game! I’ll have to keep this one in mind. Thanks for sharing,