Groups: Team Building Scavenger Hunts
An inexpensive and hysterically fun activity!
If walking tours aren't your thing, we have a selection of team building activities for our corporate clients, non-profit organizations, youth and social group customers. A Hunt with Portland Walking Tours is guaranteed to make your next team building event an entertaining and memorable one. All of our Hunts were created with team building in mind and were purposefully designed to foster team communication and cooperation, encourage creative problem solving and effective prioritization and time management skills. More importantly, were made to be FUN!
If you look online for “team building” you’ll find all sort of activities: fire walks, laser tag, trust falls, paint ball, drumming, team cuisine, murder mysteries, ropes courses, improvisational theater – the list goes on and on. They claim to create reliance between people and the team, but to be honest, they usually focus on individual athletic prowess and trust-building.
That’s where we present something new and engaging. A scavenger hunt is a strong relationship-builder, a lot of fun for everyone, and an active way to get to know the city or a museum. Unlike other activities, our hunts emphasize problem-solving, creativity, time management, prioritization and decision-making. Best of all, it’s affordable.
In the usual “grab and go” scavenger hunt, the event is predictable and the strategy is straightforward. “You go find this object, I’ll find this, meet back here in an hour.” We said to ourselves, that’s not team building, it’s just downright boring. So we thought what if we didn’t rely on items, but instead on people’s imaginations and the skills. You won’t be hunting for things but for answers to tricky and humorous questions about the intriguing places and objects you discover. The team that answers the most questions correctly wins. Our basic (Gold Package) Hunts are under three hours, but they can be customized to meet your needs: we can arrange a 90 minute ‘lunchtime’ hunt that gets the group outside and having a great time.
Some people are “word smart” and some are “music smart.” Others have people skills and others excel in logic. Our challenges have each participant draw upon their own skills and contribute to the team as a whole. Within moments of starting a hunt, you’ll see teams getting into a small huddle and start thinking, laughing, exchanging ideas and hatching marvelous solutions to our questions.
It doesn’t make a difference if you are coming from a large or small company, an individual department, school, non-profit, church, or association, a Hunt with Portland Walking Tours is a great way to spice up your next get together.
No matter what, your group will be exercising their creative muscles and having a ball while doing it.
Detailed Hunt Pricing
Gold (Basic) Package Prices
A fun and exciting hunt that includes a facilitator for a pre-hunt briefing to build excitement, all handouts, final scoring, a results presentation, and prizes for the winning team.
$25 per person with a minimum of $250. Artistry in Motion is $35 per person (which includes admission costs to Art Museum.)
Platinum Package Prices
Includes everything in the Gold Package, plus we supply the cameras for Team Photo Challenges! We'll also create a photo website after the event, which is the perfect takeaway for participants with memorable photos of their experience. Not available for the Artistry in Motion.
$35 per person with a minimum of $700.
Diamond Package Prices
Includes everything in the Platinum Package, plus Custom Questions (some companies add a few questions about company history or fun trivia about the boss) and Actors (where our staff - sometimes in costumes - is at various points on the trail to either help or hinder the teams’ progress). Not only do these options make the event more fun, but our team building puzzle-masters will work with you to determine what you would most like to highlight about your company to the hunt participants, or what skills and goals you would most like to drive home in a fun, team-building format.
$50 per person with a minimum of $1000.
Titanium Package Prices
Includes everything in the Diamond Package, plus iPhones and a concluding Awards Ceremony with an emcee. The iPhones make this a high-tech adventure that involves Emailed and GPS clues and missions (unearth hidden treasures like special treats or another clue to help them find the next destination). During the Awards Ceremony, we'll review the best (and the worst) photos on a big screen and further build upon team-building dynamics. These Hunts bring out many fascinating aspects of group dynamics and problem-solving.
Pricing depends on location, food/drink options, and group size.