Any ideas for a scavenger hunt prize?
September 17, 2013 11:59 AM   Subscribe

What kind of prize can I give college students who have completed a fun scavenger hunt?

Hi! I'm organizing a scavenger hunt around campus for a few undergraduate students. (They won this at a fundraising raffle.)

I want to have some small-ish prize for each of them at the end of it. If I were more organized, I would have gotten t-shirts made or something. Food is always an option, but they're overloaded with pizza . . .

Any ideas?
posted by caoimhe to Grab Bag (10 answers total)
 
Gift cards for:

college bookstore
iTunes
ice cream shop in your area
posted by michellenoel at 12:01 PM on September 17, 2013


Ours generally love:

gift certificates for Amazon
campus bookstore
local pizza place
tins of cookies from local place
college swag-- sweatshirts/tote bags/water bottles
posted by jetlagaddict at 12:04 PM on September 17, 2013


Thumb drives are always useful.
posted by mareli at 12:16 PM on September 17, 2013


If you were making a little swag bag, you could also include those mini-colored sharpies with the keychains on the top-- sharpies are one of those things that are enormously useful and always wandering off.
posted by jetlagaddict at 12:20 PM on September 17, 2013 [1 favorite]


Beer?
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 12:22 PM on September 17, 2013


Beer.
posted by vrakatar at 12:22 PM on September 17, 2013


What is your budget per person?

You could do gift cards to your local movie theater. Coffee house gift cards.

Also- if it is a fundraising raffle, could you get businesses from the fundraiser to donate anything?
posted by haplesschild at 12:30 PM on September 17, 2013


Not beer. A significant portion of a random sampling of undergrads is actually underage. (in the US, anyway)

Packaged snacks (tins of cookies, single-serve of chips) are good; try to mix comfort food (known brands, pretzels and and chocolate chip cookies) in with something interesting (Trader Joe's trail mix, unexpected flavors (rosemary shortbread), something from the international aisle of the grocery, something from a non-chain local store, etc.)
posted by aimedwander at 2:22 PM on September 17, 2013


Novelty fairy lights/christmas lights go over pretty well with the college crowd. Back when I was an RA, around Y2K, the most popular prize I ever gave for a hall event was strings of chili-pepper lights.
posted by polymath at 4:12 PM on September 17, 2013


When we've done focus groups for students, we ended up with more participants when we offered movie tickets than when we offered gift cards to bookstores.
posted by telophase at 10:15 AM on September 18, 2013


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