Scavenger Hunt: In Living Color

Full Program Description

In this scavenger hunt, kids encounter different ways that animals use color to survive, including humans. Framing skin color as an adaptation that we can look at just like all the amazing adaptations around us can allow for curiosity about skin color, transforming it into a talkable – instead of taboo – subject. This framing also quietly questions the valuing of some skin colors over others by highlighting the similarities of all skin.

Supplies

• paper
• pencils
• prizes (optional)

What’s next

I’m curious to see whether I can develop a more informative and detailed scavenger hunt in the future that brings in skin color and education about race by focusing on other human traits. I also thought about a scavenger hunt that would use optical illusions to show how our brains process colors after we see things, but I haven’t worked everything out yet.