1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. The North Pole, said to be Santa's home, is located in which ocean | Arctic Ocean | 2. Marzipan is made (conventionally in the western world) mainly from sugar and the flour or meal of which nut | Almond | 3. What is the technical name of Mistletoe plant genus, and also Latin for glutinous | Viscum (hence the words viscous and viscosity, referring to semi-solid/semi-liquid and thick sticky substances - derived from the sticky quality of mistletoe berries, and also an early word for birdlime, a sticky substance made from the berries, used to trap birds) | 4. Which Christmas condiment is made from fruit sometimes referred to as marshworts | Cranberry sauce | 5. Which British monarch (born 1865, died 1936) introduced the custom of giving thousands of Christmas puddings to staff | King George V | 6. In the UK it is traditionally believed that eating a what each day of the twelve days of Christmas brings happiness the following year: Sausage; Mince pie; Carrot; or Turkey drumstick | Mince pie | 7. Who composed the music known as The Nutcracker Suite, for the Christmas themed ballet The Nutcracker, premiered in St Petersburg, 1892 | Tchaikovsky | 8. Which southern central US state, whose capital city has the same name, was the last to recognize Christmas as an official holiday | Oklahoma | 9. In which country, the largest of its continent, is it said that finding a spider web on Christmas morning brings good luck, and so Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spider webs | Ukraine | 10. What day of the week was Christmas day in the year 2000 (in the conventional western calendar)? | Monday | 11. Charles Dickens is said to have considered the names Little Larry and Puny Pete for which character? (Bonus point: in which Dickens novel did the character appear?) | Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol | 12. Under which Puritan leader did the English parliament pass a law banning Christmas in 1647? | Oliver Cromwell | 13. Very loosely related to Christmas, the predatory animal 'uncia uncia' is better known by what name? | Snow Leopard | 14. Which traditional Christmas plant was once so revered by early Britons that it had to be cut with a golden sickle? | Mistletoe | 15. In the song 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', how many swans were a-swimming? | Seven | 16. The early pagan religious winter festival celebrated by archaic Scandinavian and Germanic people, later absorbed into Christmas celebrations, is still referred to in what alternative word for the Christmas season? | Yule (or Yule-tide) | 17. The surname Chandler derives from the making or selling of what? | Candles | 18. In what movie was a little boy shot in the eye by a Red Rider BB Gun? | The Christmas Story |
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