Hen do scavenger hunt: 50 photo challenges and how to play
Fifty challenges, rules and scoring, props, a free printable and an easy way to collect every team's photos.
Updated · 6 min read·By the DropSnaps team
Quick answer
A hen do photo scavenger hunt is a list of challenges teams complete by taking photos, from a selfie with the bride-to-be to a stranger's best marriage advice. Split into teams, set a time limit of 60 to 90 minutes, score each photo, and collect everyone's pictures in one shared album so the bride-to-be keeps them all.
Questions people ask
What is a hen do scavenger hunt?
A game where teams race to complete a list of challenges, usually by taking photos or videos, such as recreating an old photo of the bride-to-be or getting a stranger's marriage advice. The team with the most points wins.
How long should a hen do scavenger hunt take?
Sixty to ninety minutes is plenty, with 20 to 30 challenges, a meeting point and a time to be back.
How do you score a photo scavenger hunt?
Give one point for easy photos, two for ones that take teamwork and three for anything with a stranger or a video, plus a bonus for the bride-to-be's favourite. Take points off teams who are late back.
What props do you need for hen party photos?
A veil and sash for the bride-to-be, matching sashes or sunglasses for the teams, a photo frame prop, signs on sticks, letter balloons and a mini chalkboard for messages.
How do we collect everyone's photos from the hen do?
Share one QR code or link where everyone adds photos and videos in full quality, rather than a group chat that shrinks them. With DropSnaps, each team can be a moment tag, so their photos land in their own album. See party photo sharing.
A photo scavenger hunt is the easiest hen do activity to organise and one of the most fun to play. Split the group into teams, hand out a list of challenges, and send everyone off to collect photos and videos before meeting back for drinks and the results. You end up with the best photos of the weekend, and a bride-to-be who's laughed until she cried. Here are 50 challenges, the rules, a scoring system, props, a free printable and the easy way to collect everyone's photos.
How to play
Split into teams of three to five, and give each a name and a captain.
Hand out the list. Print our free sheet below, or send the challenges to each team's phone.
Set a time limit: 60 to 90 minutes is plenty, with a meeting point and a time to be back. Late teams lose points.
Collect the photos in one place as you go, so nothing gets lost in ten different phones.
Score them together over drinks or dinner, with the bride-to-be as judge.
Show the best ones on a screen, and crown the winning team.
The bride-to-be can join a team, roam between teams as the star of every photo, or stay as the judge with the maid of honour.
50 hen do photo challenges
With the bride-to-be
A selfie with the bride-to-be and the whole team
Recreate an old photo of the bride-to-be (bring a printout)
The bride-to-be signing an autograph for a fan
The team lifting the bride-to-be off the ground, carefully
The bride-to-be's best impression of her partner (video)
The bride-to-be wearing something blue that isn't hers
The bride-to-be being serenaded
The bride-to-be teaching the team her signature dance move (video)
The bride-to-be holding a bouquet made from anything but flowers
A "first dance" between the bride-to-be and a team member
Out and about
The team in front of a local landmark
A sign with the bride-to-be's name or initial on it
Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, in one photo
A wedding dress in a shop window
The whole team in mid-air, jumping at the same moment
A heart made from anything you can find
A dog, with its owner's permission
The team recreating a famous album cover
The team's reflection in a shop window
A view the bride-to-be would love
With strangers (always ask nicely)
A stranger's best marriage advice (video)
A married couple telling you how long they've been together
Someone with the same first name as the bride-to-be or her partner
A stranger giving the bride-to-be a high five
A stranger joining the team for a group photo
A busker playing a song for the bride-to-be (tip them!)
The bar staff raising a glass to the bride-to-be
A stranger teaching the team a dance move (video)
Someone wearing the same colour as the team
A stranger's best wedding dance move (video)
Silly and creative
The whole team in a human pyramid
Your best boy band album cover
A slow-motion catwalk (video)
The team as a famous painting
Everyone squeezed behind one tree
The bride-to-be looking like a giant (forced perspective)
The team's best impression of the groom-to-be (or bride-to-be)
A scene from the bride-to-be's favourite film
A proposal re-enactment
The worst selfie the team can manage
Sweet and sentimental
A message for the bride-to-be, spelled out one word per person
The bride-to-be laughing, not posing
A toast to the bride-to-be, with everyone's glass in shot
The friend who's known her longest telling a story about her (video)
Something that reminds you of the couple
The team holding hands in a circle around the bride-to-be
The bride-to-be with each team member, one by one
A "we love you" sign made from whatever's to hand
The team's best photo of the bride-to-be today
Your favourite photo of the whole weekend
Pick the ones that suit your group and your plans: a city weekend, a spa day, a cottage or a night out. Twenty to thirty challenges is plenty for an hour.
How to score it
Challenge
Points
A quick photo anyone could get
1
Something that takes planning or teamwork
2
Anything with a stranger, or a video
3
The bride-to-be's favourite photo of the day
5 bonus
Back late at the meeting point
Minus 1 per minute
Agree the rules before you start: every team member must be in at least half of the photos, one photo per challenge counts, and the judge's decision is final.
Free printable hen do scavenger hunt
Our free sheet has two copies of the hunt on one A4 page, each with 12 of the challenges above, tick boxes and a line for your team name. Print as many as you need and cut them in half.
Free to print: two scavenger hunt cards on one A4 page
The hard part of any scavenger hunt isn't taking the photos: it's getting them all in one place afterwards. Photos sent in a group chat are shrunk, videos get lost, and somebody always forgets.
With DropSnaps, you create a page for the hen do and share one QR code or link. Everyone adds their photos and videos from their phone's browser, with no app or account, and the bride-to-be keeps the full-quality originals.
Add each team as a moment tag, such as "Team Prosecco" and "Team Fizz". Teams pick their tag as they upload, and each team's photos land in their own album, ready for scoring. You can have up to 30 tags, so if you're only using a few challenges, add those as tags instead.
Show the results on a TV at the house or the restaurant with the slideshow, and new photos appear within moments.
Add a PIN so the photos stay with the group.
Download everything afterwards, for a hen do photo book or the wedding slideshow.
Free covers up to 50 photos. For a bigger group, or if teams are filming videos, Standard is a one-off £45. See photo sharing for parties.
Each moment tag becomes an album, so every team's photos are in one place
Props that make better photos
A veil and sash for the bride-to-be
Matching sashes, T-shirts or sunglasses for each team
A photo frame prop to hold up
Signs on sticks: "Bride squad", "Last fling before the ring", "Team Bride"
Giant letter balloons spelling her name
Feather boas and oversized sunglasses
A mini chalkboard for messages
An instant camera, for a few prints to stick in a book on the night
More hen do photo ideas
A "through the years" slideshow: ask friends and family for old photos of the bride-to-be before the weekend, and show them at dinner. See our wedding slideshow guide for the how-to.
A photo booth corner at the house, with a backdrop and props. Our photo booth ideas work just as well for a hen do.
A guest book for the bride-to-be: notes from everyone, kept with the photos.
A photo book afterwards, made from the best shots of the weekend, as a gift for the bride-to-be.
