Organizing a Photo Scavenger Hunt
Looking for something the kids can do on a drowsy afternoon? Why not organize a photographic scavenger hunt? With a list of clues and an inexpensive single-use camera for each of your children, you’re in business. Best of all, by adjusting the complexity of the "clues," you can gear this exercise to any age group.
   The rules are simple. Each child receives one point for every clue photographed. The one with the most points wins. Some sample clues:

 (1) "I’m bigger than a breadbox and have a big mouth" (a mailbox).
 (2) "I’m furry and funny looking and talk without saying a word" (the neighbor’s dog).
(3) "Find me, and you’ll be ‘saddling up’ in no time" (a bicycle).
(4) "I’m loaded with fruit but stand less than two feet tall" (a tomato or pepper plant)
(5) "I lead the way on nearly all family trips (your automobile’s bumper).
(6) "You can see your face in me, but I’m not a mirror" (a glass window).
(7) "I’m ‘pretty as a picture’ and only an arm’s length away (mom).
(8) "I’m not alive, but I have three winking ‘eyes’" (a traffic light).
(9) "You’ll find me at the bottom of things" (the ground).
(10) "I’m hard as a rock, yet you can walk right through me!" (a door).

   Besides occupying your children’s time, you’ll help them to learn to think creatively—and to have fun doing it!