VIDEO SCAVENGER HUNTS


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Zion Lutheran Church, Stratford, WI

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VIDEO SCAVENGER HUNTS

Rules!

  1. This is a contest between teams to see which team can accumulate the greatest number of points. Points are earned by taking video of the challenges described below. You will be made aware of the point values of each task upon returning to church.
  2. All teams leave the church parking lot at the same time, equipped with a video camera and a list of video challenges.
  3. All but the video camera operator must be visible on the videotape to receive points.

Directions:

Capture as many of the following moments on video as possible within the time limit. You have a chance for a total of 200 points. The winning group will receive ?????????

Some items to video:

  • Two by two all members of the team must act like animals that were on the ark.
  • Find a Zion member who has a musical instrument and have them play a tune while you hum along.
  • Find a teacher from Stratford Schools and have them recite the alphabet.
  • Find a child under the age of two that will laugh at you when you recite Hickory Dickory Dock.
  • Sing a song to a resident at Northside Elder Estates.
  • Wash and dry the windshields of three cars at one of the local gas stations. (Be sure to ask first!)
  • Capture yourselves on video in front of the old parsonage.
  • Put on a 3-minuted entertainment show on the stage at Klemme Park.
  • Find a member of Zion who is willing to sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat with you.
  • Spell out the word Zion using your bodies as the letters.
  • Capture yourselves on video in front of a street sign where the street is the name of a nut.
  • Find the room in the church building that used to be a bathroom.
  • Play "Ring around the Rosie" around a fire hydrant.
  • Sing and make up actions to the song Jesus Loves Me.
  • Have team help fold someone's laundry at the laundromat.
  • Team must find alphabetical listing (A-Z). May use street signs, businesses, mail boxes (anything that has a full name on it.) Must be in alphabetical order on the video.
  • Find a member of the congregation who has the most Bibles in their home. (Video tape the member with the Bibles)
  • Show your team taking someone's dog for a walk. (No relatives' dog)
  • Video as many construction signs as you can find.
  • Most people on a bike.
  • Video the team working out on football dummies or climbing the string ladder.
  • Have team lay out on the ground in the form of any Christian symbol.
  • Interview the oldest member of Zion and find out when he/she joined Zion.
  • Find a policeman and ask this question? If you had one word of advice for a teenager, what would it be?
  • Someone from your group needs to do a good deed for someone in the community (rake grass, take out garbage, wash a window etc.) This cannot be done at a parent's house.
  • Ask a child under the age of 10 years of age to describe God. (This cannot be a brother or sister of any of you.
  • Use your bodies to make a Christian Symbol.
  • Find the oldest person buried in a cemetery. Video the headstone.
  • Find a confined space and fit all of your group in it and take a picture. (be creative)
  • Mop the floor of a convenience store or gas station in town.
  • Find and take a picture of the "Golden Rock". (We had painted a large rock gold and placed it at a business place in town)
  • Bring back someone to eat pizza with us (not a parent or sibling)

This is just a compiled list of what we have used over the years. We give them 10 to 15 items to video each year.


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