Materials
List of Onomatopoeia

Preparation
Make a list of words that represent sounds – onomatopoeia

Scavenger Hunt Desription
Onomatopoeia are words that represent sounds. Use this for a photo scavenger hunt. Youth must photograph the object or creature that makes the corresponding sound. For example: if the clue is “meow” then the youth must take a photo together with a cat. “clippety-clop” is the sound a horse makes as its shoes strike the ground so they would need to take a photo together with a horse.

Example items
argh, baa, bam, bang, bark, beep, belch, blare, boing, bonk, boo-hoo, boom, bray, burp, burr, burst, buzz, cackle, caw, chime, chirp, chop, clang, clank, clap, clatter, click, clippety-clop, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, crackle, crash, croak, crow, crunch, ding-dong, drip, fizz, gasp, gobble, groaning, growl, grunt, gurgle, gush, hee-haw, hiccup, hiss, honk, hoot, howl, huff, hum, hush, ka-boom, ka-ching, kerplunk, knock, meow, moaning, moo, mumble, neigh, oink, ouch, ping pong, plop, poof, pop, puff, purr, quack, rattle, ribbit, ring, roar, rustle, scratch, screech, sigh, sizzle, slurp, smash, sniff, snort, sob, splash, splat, squeak, squeal, squish, swoosh, thud, tick, tick-tock, tinkling, tolling, tweet, vroom, whack, wheeze, whimper, whistle, whine, whinny, whirr, woof, yelp, zap, zoom, zzzzz

Variation
Give each group of youth a tape recorder and have them record the sounds.

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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.

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]
* 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]
* I’m usually old, in a yard with a fence, here someone rests, and another is of English descent [Cemetary]
* 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]
* Throughout history, there have been thousands of well-documented 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]
* Has to be broken before it can be used [Egg]

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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