Airport and Travel Day Scavenger Hunt

Travel days are lost days for most worldschooling families. This is a way to get something out of one without anybody having to organise anything.

The hunt

Print it, write it on a scrap of paper, or just read it out. It works either way.

1. A language you cannot read

2. A currency symbol you do not recognise

3. The furthest away place on the departure board

4. The nearest place on the departure board

5. Something that costs more here than outside

6. A job somebody is doing that you had not thought about

7. A rule that is different from your home country

8. Something designed to be used by people who share no language

How to run it

Anytime, no materials. Read it out and let it run in the background over hours rather than doing it all at once.

Item eight is the good one. Airports are full of wordless design, symbols, colours and shapes that work across every language, and once a child notices it they see it everywhere.

For younger children

Four items. Colours, a plane, a language, a person doing a job.

For older children

Take the departure board and calculate flight times, time zone differences and arrival times in local time. It is elapsed time practice with a genuinely complicated twist.

What to do afterwards

One note in the journal. Which destination on the board they would choose and why. Keep those. They change over a year of travelling.

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Every hunt on this site is free and needs no preparation. See the Start Here pages if you want them ordered by age.