> My high school youth group is welcoming 8th graders next week, and we're going to do a video scavenger hunt. My youth pastor asked a group of us to come up with some good ideas of things to capture. Naturally, I decided to post for some help here, since you all are so . . . rinky. The ideas should be able to involve a group of high school age kids. I expect some gems to come out of this.
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> A few things we've done in the past, for starters and things to not copy:
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> Enacting an ER scene
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> Enacting a war scene
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> Convincing a stranger to help find a "lost" contact lens
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> Ordering a pizza in a Mexican restaurant
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> Kissing a dog (Dumb idea)
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> Enacting a Cowboys vs. Indians in front of the Capitol
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> Having a stranger film us standing in another stranger's bathtub
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> Chasing down a small child (Well, it wasn't supposed to happen this way...)
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> Quacking and waddling with strangers at a Duck Crossing sign.
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> Et cetera
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> gab"These made for some INTeresting memories"by


Get everyone to dress as crayons. White crayons.

Arrange, with a friend, to meet in a public place and ad lib a personal-sounding conversation. This was actually done by me and a friend at a school dance. I walked up to her:
Me: Heather, are the rumors about you true?
Her (nervously): Rumors? What rumors?
Me: You know which rumor I mean.
Her (sobbing): Yes! Yes! It's true! Who told you?
Me: That's not important. What is improtant is that you need to get some help.
Her: Why? What's wrong with it? I mean, the geese ARE beautiful animals!
Me: That doesn't matter. It's wrong and horrible.
Her: But---
Me: No buts. You need to control your feet.
And we continued in this manner for about eight minutes. Towards the end we screamed and yelled at each other and had a nice little crowd of about ten people staring at us. We stormed off into corners, buried our faces, and laughed our heads off. It was great.
Do that sort of thing, but at like a bus station or something.

Someone mentioned performing a RinkChat archive in public. That would be fun with a self-chat.

Get three people to dress as pigs and a fourth, taller one to dress as a wolf. The wolf should chase the pigs all over the city.

If you're a guy, dress as Marge Simpson and walk around in public. Ride the bus or subway with the costume on.

Have everyone walk down the street and then freeze their positions, as if time had been paused or something. Start walking and talking again after about a minute or so.

If you're an American near the Canadian border, get a group of friends and go to one of the border crossings. Tell the guy in the tollbooth thing that you plan to invade Canada and you have all your plans ready, so could he step aside for a minute?

Wear astronaut suits and bounce with every step. Plant a big stiffened flag in some public place.

Have four people caryr around a big box with dangerous-looking warnings on the side. Or perhaps a label saying only "PEAT".

Do cartwheels for a mile. This works best when it's a group of eight or more doing it.

Cover everyone with fake blood, sit on a bench, and put a "bloody" ax on the ground near you. Beware of cops.

-eric "sorry, I just think that way" sleator
Tue 9 May A.D. 2000