Aerosol - DIY - 300


Objective:

Travel to a legal public spray paint wall or object and make your mark.

Details:

1) Identify a wall (or object) that is open to the public to paint.

Examples include, Fargo Art Alley in North Dakota and Cadillac Ranch in Texas.

We know that these may be few and far between, but we also know that this experience has the potential to be REALLY FUN! This is your sign to plan a road trip!

2) Travel to the wall and make your mark!

3) Take a photo of yourself next to your street art and post it in our Facebook group.

4) Alongside your photo, let us know:

  • Where did you make your street art?

  • Who did you go with?

  • What was the experience like for you?

  • Did anything interesting or unexpected happen?

Aerosol - Find - 300

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Objective:

Use spray paint to create appropriate camouflage for a geocache or letterbox container.

Details:

1) For this objective, we’ll be creating a container for a letterbox or geocache. If you’re not familiar with the hobbies, head over to the Origins Find Objective to learn more!

2) Watch the Geocache Container Camo Paint Technique (above) tutorial video from Podcacher.

3) Gather your supplies. You’ll need spray paint and leaves and/or stencils.

4) Create your camouflaged container!

5) Take a photo of your container and share it in our Facebook group.

6) Alongside your photo, tell us a bit about your experience completing this objective.

 

Aerosol - Travel - 300


Objective:

Take a guided mural tour.

Details:

1) Identify a guided mural tour that you’d like to go on.

What do we mean by “guided”? Choose a tour that has been intentionally planned for the public, whether that be self guided (your are provided a map and instructions and expected to follow the route yourself) or led by an in person tour guide.

What do we mean by “mural tour”? Exactly what it says. A tour that takes you from mural to mural so that you can appreciate the art!

Examples include the Murals of East Austin Self Guided Tour in Texas, the Lyn-Lake Street Art Walking Tour in Minnesota and the PDX Street Art Tour in Oregon.

2) Go on the guided mural tour.

3) Take a photo of your favorite mural and share it in our Facebook group.

4) Alongside your photo, let us know:

  • What tour did you go on?

  • Was the tour self guided or led by a tour guide?

  • How many murals did you see?

  • Which mural was your favorite? What did you like about it?

  • What did you like about the tour?

Aerosol - Travel - 400

Objective:

Spend a day in a large city that you haven't visited in two or more years.

Details:

If you think of the characteristics of big cities, you might think of high rise buildings and streets packed with people. You might also think of graffiti! You’re likely to see some street art as you head to a big city, especially if you keep your eyes open for it!

1) Choose a city that satisfies this objective. We are defining a BIG city as either the largest city in a state and/or a city over 300,000.

2) Travel to your chosen big city and have fun! Play tourist as you explore all the city has to offer.

Suggestions for your time in the city:

  • Research what foods the city is known for an give it a try.

  • Check out any noteworthy statues or monuments.

  • Explore a museum. (Bonus if the museum features history about the city!)

  • Read a book in an epic park

  • Check out a travel guide and do some of the “top picks” specific to the city

  • Get a hotel and stay for the night. (If you’re like me, you’ll want the hotel to have a pool!)

IMPORTANT: You are not required to stay for a full “day” (24 hours) but you should stay for at last eight hours to fulfill the objective.

3)  Take a photo that exemplifies your trip and post it in our Facebook group.

4) Alongside your photo, let us know:

  • What city did you visit?

  • What is the city’s population?

  • Is the city the largest in your state? (If not, how does the population compare to the largest city?)

  • Who did you travel with?

  • How long did you spend in the city?

  • What activities did you do while you were there?

  • Did anything interesting or unexpected happen?

Lost Micro Objective - Games - 50

Objective:

Solve a maze that a fellow Quest Scout created.

Details:

1) Have you checked out the Lost badge yet? It features a solvable maze!

2) We figure you might not want to draw on your actual badge, so we have created a pdf version you can download and print the maze.

3) Solve the maze!

4) Take a photo that documents that you solved the maze, yet obscures the maze enough that you don’t give away the full solution. Share your photo in our Facebook group.

Lost - Micro Objective - Art - 50

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Quest Scouts inspires your to squeeze the most out of life while collecting real-life, physical badges. 

Objective:

Make a missing poster for something funny or intangible. (In 15 minutes or less!)

Details:

1) Gather your supplies. For this objective, you can create digitally, physically, or use a combination of the two. The goal here is to get creative.

2) When a person sadly loses their pet, they might create “missing” posters to hang up around town in hopes of being alerted should another person have any relevant information. You’ll be creating a missing poster for something funny or intangible. Before you get started, decide what your missing thing you’ll make a fictitious missing poster about. (Bigfoot? Your marbles? Your imaginary friend?)

2) Set a timer for 15 minutes. (Don’t skip this step!) Start the timer.

3) Spend 15 minutes (or less) creating your missing poster. The goal here is not perfection, but just to convey your idea in a fun way.

4) Hang your missing poster in a public place. (Perhaps the classic telephone pole? Or on a board in a coffee shop?)

 5) Take a photo of your missing poster WHILE HUNG IN A PUBLIC SPACE and share it in our Facebook group.

Lost - DIY - 200

Objective:

Design an intricate maze for others to solve.

Details:

1) Watch Maze Making with Ben Pawlowski from Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning.

Update: Optionally, Beth L. has suggested How to Draw a Maze from Ms. Cooper’s Art Class as a good supplement as well.

2) Keeping in mind what you have learned about Pawlowski’s methods, draw a maze of your own. As this is a 200 point objective, make sure you take the time to make an intricate maze that you feel proud to show.

3) Scan your maze as a pdf, and email it to hello@questscouts.com with the subject line “Lost Maze”. (You can do this yourself with a traditional scanner or the Adobe Scan phone app, or pay to have it done for you at the UPS store.)

4) Quest Scouts will then upload your maze to our Lost Games Micro Objective page for your fellow scouts to solve!

Lost Micro Objective - Games - 50

Objective:

Solve a maze that a fellow Quest Scout created.

Details:

One of our Lost DIY objectives asks you to design an intricate maze for others to solve. Now, we’re asking you to pick up where that objective left off!

1) Peruse the list of scout Quest Scout created mazes toward the bottom of this page. Choose a maze to solve.

2) Print out the page, or set it up so that you can write on it digitally.

3) Solve the maze!

4) Take a photo that documents that you solved the maze, yet obscures the maze enough that you don’t give away the full solution. Share your photo in our Facebook group.

Quest Scout Created Mazes

Lost - Research - 300

Objective:

Locate and play a PAC-MAN arcade game.

Details:

1) Do a bit of research, and locate the location of a pac-man arcade game that you can feasibly travel to.

Please note, for the purposes of this objective, an arcade game is a large, free standing console like the examples to the right. Please do not use an at home console to satisfy this objective.

2) Travel to and play the Pac-Man arcade game you previously identified.

3) Take a photo of yourself in front of the game (and/or a photo of your initial on the high scores screen) and share it in our Facebook group.  

Lost - DIY - 200

Objective:

Tell your clutter to "get lost" with a trip to your local thrift store.

Details:

For this objective, you’ll be getting rid of items in your house that no longer serve you. In other words, we’re telling our clutter to “get lost”!

1) Choose a focus.

This is a 200 point objective, so ideally it should take a few hours to complete. That said, the scope of the decluttering is up to you.

Before you begin, answer the following questions for yourself:

  • Is there a spefic amount of time you would like to spend decluttering?

  • Would you like to focus on a specific area of your home?

  • Do you have a goal of how many pieces of clutter you would like to get rid of?

2) Once you’ve got a clear goal, it’s time to declutter! Systematically work through your home with your goal(s) in mind, and create a pile of items you no longer wish to keep.

3) Get rid of your stuff! Take it to a thrift shop, give it to friends or find another way to dispose of it. This objective is not complete until the items have been removed from your residence. (We don’t want any lingering bags and boxes in the garage or car!)

4) Take a photo of yourself getting rid of your items (e.g. in front of a Goodwill or handing off the items to a friend) and share it in our Facebook group.

5) Alongside your photo, tell us a bit about your experience completing this objective.

Lost Micro Objective - Media - 50

 

Quest Scouts inspires your to squeeze the most out of life while collecting real-life, physical badges. 

Objective:

Learn about maze design through exploring Adrian Fisher’s work.

Details:

The Lost Travel Objective asks you to travel through a “life sized” maze. It is our hope that this micro objective further inspires you to travel through a larger than life maze through exposing you to the designs and ethos of the award winning maker, Adrian Fisher.

1) Watch Fisher’s TEDx Talk, The Hidden World of Maze Design.

2) Check out Fisher’s portfolio on his website.

3) In the comments below, answer the following questions:

  • If you could visit only one of Fisher’s maze’s, which would you choose and why?

  • What is something you learned from Fisher’s TEDx Talk?

  • If you had a large budget to design a maze, what would it be like?

 

Lost - Literature - 150

 

Objective:

Work your way through a "seek-and-find" book.

Details:

1) Choose a “seek-and-find” book that you would like to explore.

What’s a seek-and-find book? Seek-and-find books are picture books filled with pages of busy scenes. Within these scenes, you are tasked with finding specific people or objects. Classic examples of seek-and-find books are “Where’s Waldo” and “I Spy”.

You can choose any seek-and-find book, but we ask that you find something that will not only fulfill the objective, but that will also bring you joy. For instance, maybe you are a National Parks lover, so you choose Seek & Find National Parks. Or maybe you are feeling nostalgic and revisit a book from your childhood.

We’ve created a list of suggestions over at our online Quest Scouts bookshop, but feel free to choose a book that’s not on the list.

2) Get cozy and spend at least an hour immersed in your seek-and-find book. Really get into it! How many pages can you make your way through?

3) In the comments below, tell us about your experience. Let us know:

  • The title and author of the book

  • A brief description of the book

  • Why you chose the book you chose

  • What you thought of your time with the book

  • The item that you spent the most time looking for. Did you give up or eventually find it?

  • Whether or not you would recommend this seek-and-find book to a fellow scout

Lost - Photography - 100

 

Objective:

Create an image that captures the feeling of being lost.

Details:

1) Check out Cesar Blay’s photo series entitled “State of Discouragement”. Blay uses the figure of a solitary man holding an umbrella in a series of settings to communicate the feeling of being lost.

2) For this objective, we’d like you to create your own artistic photograph that captures the feeling a being lost. You can interpret the feeling of being lost in any way you would like.

3) Share your photo in our Facebook group.

4) Alongside your image, write a short description of the image explaining your rationale behind the photo. What is it about the image that convey’s the feeling of being lost?

 

Lost - Literature - 300

 

Objective:

Read any novel that features a maze or labyrinth as a central plot point.

Details:

1) Choose and obtain ANY* novel that features a maze or labyrinth as a central plot point.

We’ve created a list of suggestions over at our new online Quest Scouts bookshop, but feel free to choose a book that’s not on the list. Just be sure to do your best to choose a novel that truly centers a maze or labyrinth.

*Caveat- Please choose a 150+ page book for this objective.

2) Read the book! (Listening to the audio version is great too!)

3) Write a short book review and post it in the comments below. Be sure to include:

  • The title and author

  • A brief description of the plot and/or premise

  • What your thought of the book. (Did you love it? Hate it?)

Lost - Travel - 300


Objective:

Make your way through a life sized maze.

Details:

1) Identify a life sized maze that you’d like to visit.

What do we mean by “life sized”? The point here is we want you to think BIG. Find a maze that you can walk though. You might consider a corn maze, a snow maze, or even a meditation labyrinth. Examples include The Lavender Labyrinth in Michigan, The Maize at the Pumpkin Patch in Oregon, and this Haunted Corn Maze in Rhode Island!

2) Make your way through the maze.

3) Take a photo while in the maze and share it in our Facebook group.

4) Alongside your photo, let us know:

  • What maze did you visit?

  • What did the maze look like? How big was it?

  • Who did you go with?

  • What was it like making your way through the maze?

  • Did anything interesting or unexpected happen?

 

Lost - Find - 300


Objective:

Travel to a lighthouse and collect a passport stamp.

Details:

Did you know that The United States Lighthouse Society runs a passport program that allows you to collect unique rubber stamp images across the country?

These rubber stamps sit inside lighthouses and their gift shops, and can be collected in an official passport book, in a blank notebook, or on a loose piece of paper. Collecting stamps over time allows you to create a log of your visits to some of the most beautiful places in the world. 

For this find objective, we're asking you to visit a lighthouse and attain a lighthouse stamp. Whether you're a seasoned stamp collector or this is your first stamp, we hope that this will be a great excuse for you to visit many lighthouses to come.

Details:

1) Travel to a location that provides a lighthouse stamp.

You can find a list of participating US (as well as Canada and a few other countries) lighthouses here.

Notes: (1) If, and only if, you live in a country that does not have a lighthouse stamp program, you may complete this objective through visiting a lighthouse and not collecting a stamp. (2) If any of you know of lighthouse stamp programs in other countries, please send them our way.)

2) Stamp your passport! (A piece of paper or postcard can be stamped as well- your choice!)

3) Take a photo of yourself with your lighthouse stamp and share it in our Facebook group. (You may additionally want to share a few photos of the lighthouse itself!)

4) Alongside the photo of your stamp, let us know:

  • What lighthouse did you visit?

  • Who did you go with?

  • What was your adventure like? (Give us the details!)

  • What was something interesting that you learned while there?

 

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