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Youth Camp Scavenger Hunt Riddles I Add riddles to increase the difficulty of your next scavenger hunt. www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com
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Description Spruce up your next scavenger hunt or photo scavenger hunt by adding some of the items in the form of riddles. Riddles may rhyme or simply present a conundrum
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Example Riddles for your Scavenger Hunt * Come up and let us go; go down and here we stay. [Anchor] * You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. [Bar of Soap] * He can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? [Barber] * What is it that has four legs, one head and a foot? [Bed] * What is white when its dirty and black when its clean? [Blackboard]
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* Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but I’m always ready to tell a tale. [Book] * A hundred brothers lie next to each other; Each white and fine — they’ve only one spine. I am the tongue that lies between two. Remove me to gather their wisdom to you. [Bookmark] * Man walks over, man walks under, in times of war he burns asunder. [Bridge] * It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. [Cabbage] * My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick, Fat, I am slow, Wind is my foe. [Candle] www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com
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•I’m usually old, in a yard with a fence, here someone rests, and another is of English descent [Cemetery] * What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use? [chalk, pencil, soap] * What’s black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you’re all through with it? [Charcoal] * A slow, solemn square-dance, Of warriors feinting. One by one they fall, Warriors fainting, Thirty-two on sixty-four. [Chess] •* Has to be broken before it can be used [Egg] www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com
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* Throughout history, there have been thousands of welldocumented cases of horses jumping over towers and landing on clergy and small men, forcing their removal. What am I? [Chess] * Runs, but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. [Clock] * I have head and tail, but no legs. I am that for which the beggar begs. [Coin] * I am so simple that I only point; yet I guide men all over the world. [Compass] * Put on the table and cut, but never eaten [Deck of cards] www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com
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Create your own Create riddles for specific locations and items specific to you church, town, or area. For example, use the riddle for a river, but then add a couple lines to indicate a specific river near your location for participants to take a photo of.
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Camp Curriculum - Whale of a Tale Bible Studies based on the book of Jonah Only. This youth camp curriculum was designed to teach the basic truths of obedience in addition to evangelism in the context of a Biblical character. The advantage of going through a book and looking at one man's story is that we see not only the teaching but the example. It becomes much more real! -> Tell me about “Whale of a Tale�
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Creative Youth Ideas Camp Bible Study Series “Who Do You Say that I AM?” Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others say that I am?" It was easy to answer because it required no conviction, no commitment, and no risk. But then he follows that question with another, "Who do YOU say that I am?" -> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?”
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Creative Youth Ideas Youth Camp Bible Study Series “Fruit Of the Spirit” Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7 Primary Bible study Sessions in the series. -> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
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Camp Curriculum - The Great Adventure "The Great Adventure" is western themed Bible study series loosely based around the song of the same name by Steven Curtis Chapman. It was initially written for a large Texas Church to use for their Summer Youth Camp but has since then proven popular around the world. -> Tell me about “The Great Adventure�
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