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Action Tips: Have a Green Scavenger Hunt

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Fun outdoor activity for the environment

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Scavenger hunts are beyond much fun, and a great outdoor team-building summer activity. Host a scavenger hunt with a green theme. Take some of our suggestions, and think of your own things to find.

Things to collect:

  • Five pieces of garbage from a public place, and five pieces from within a block of where you live
  • Three pamphlets available where you live about something environmentally friendly
  • A freshly picked flower
  • One edible thing that grows in your neighborhood

Things to find:

  • Identify five plant species and three animal species in a local park
  • One piece of food that comes from less than 100 miles away
  • One piece of food that comes from over 1000 miles away
  • Four vegetarians

Things to learn:

  • Where is the nearest place to rent a bike?
  • Where is the nearest landfill? How big is it?
  • What days are recycling collected?
  • Which stores sell local meat and produce?

Things to snap a digital picture of:

  • The tallest tree you can find
  • A flower of every color of the rainbow (good luck with blue!)
  • Three different sports games going on
  • Four people using different modes of transportation that don't use oil
Issues: 
Environment [3]
Energy Conservation [4]
Pollution [5]
Recycling [6]
Time: 
One Day [7]
Where: 
In Your City [8]
In Your Neighborhood [9]
Who: 
Family [10]
With Your Friends [11]

Source URL: http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/actionguide/action-tips-have-green-scavenger-hunt

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[3] http://www.dosomething.org/cause/environment
[4] http://www.dosomething.org/issues/energy-conservation
[5] http://www.dosomething.org/issues/pollution
[6] http://www.dosomething.org/issues/recycling
[7] http://www.dosomething.org/category/time/one-day
[8] http://www.dosomething.org/category/where/in-your-city
[9] http://www.dosomething.org/category/where/in-your-neighborhood
[10] http://www.dosomething.org/category/who/family
[11] http://www.dosomething.org/category/who/with-your-friends