If you want a fun scavenger hunt for kids that can be played indoors at home or when you’re out shopping at a grocery store, we have just the thing.
Here are 10 food riddles you can use as well as how to make it a scavenger hunt.
Resources
- Riddles (see below)
- Pens
- Each of the 10 food items (if playing this at home)
Preparation
If you’re going to be playing this at Walmart or another grocery store, there’s no preparation needed.
For playing this at home, the only preparation will be ensuring you have all the food items in the house.
Instructions
Give the players a list of the riddles – we’ve produced a free printable copy below to make it easier for you to organize.
Explain that their task is to answer all the riddles and then find each of the food items, either around the house or in the grocery store – wherever you end up playing this.
Food Scavenger Hunt Riddles
Here are the 10 riddles about different food items as well as their answers.
Beneath this list is a link to a free printable scavenger hunt worksheet containing the same riddles – please feel free to print as many copies as you need.
1. Orange
This is a fruit that
You might be fed
You just need to mix
Yellow and red
2. Rice
Sometimes at weddings
This food is thrown
A paddy field
Is where it’s grown
3. Onion
This root vegetable
Might be red, white or green
It can make you cry
Even though it’s not mean
4. Carrot
Buying this vegetable
Doesn’t cost much money
It seems to be the favorite food
Of Bugs Bunny
5. Potato
This is grown underground
But has skin and eyes
It can be eaten mashed
Roasted or as fries
6. Corn Flakes
The first word grows in a field
That looks like gold
The second word is how snow falls
When it is cold
7. Eggs
When incubated
You might get a chick inside
Otherwise they’re eaten
Scrambled, boiled or fried
8. Tortilla
Ground beef, sour cream, guacamole
Rice, pinto beans and cheese
To finish making a burrito
They’re wrapped in one of these
9. Tuna
Open up the can
And it’ll smell fishy
One brand that sells this
Is Chicken Of The Sea
10. Popcorn
If you go see a movie
You have to get some of this
And then add butter or salt
For a taste that’s simply bliss
Printable Food Scavenger Hunt Riddles
Winner
If playing this with two or more players / teams competing against each other, the winners will be the ones who solve all the riddles and find all the items first.
Prize
As a prize for the winner, let them choose what to have or where to go for dinner.