A family weekend usually has an afternoon or morning that's still open. A scavenger hunt around the venue itself fills that moment, and gets everyone outside instead of scattered across the couch and the garden chairs.
Here's how to approach it.
You set the duration yourself, and for a family weekend, thirty minutes to an hour usually works best: long enough for a handful of assignments, short enough to move on with the rest of the schedule afterward.
For a family weekend, the play area doesn't need to be big. Mark out the area around the holiday home or venue, so nobody has to walk far to take part.
An assignment that points to something at the venue itself, like the flower border on the front or that one odd garden statue, makes the hunt about this specific weekend instead of a generic round.
During the hunt you don't play along yourself: photos come in to you on your laptop, and you approve or reject them. Feel free to do it from a terrace chair with coffee, that's part of the deal.
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