SIDE-BY-SIDE. Recreate a famous Renaissance painting on a concrete driveway or the side of a building using chalk. The ‘painting’ must be altered in some way to include something related to the pandemic: a portrait could be wearing a mask.
Category: GISH Play-at-Home 2020-05
Submissions from the GISH 1-Day Play-at-Home Scavenger Hunt, held during the COVID-19 Pandemic in May 2020.
Item 16 – Socially-Distant Cake Candle-Blower
Blowing out candles on a birthday cake is unsanitary and so ‘2019.’ Luckily, you’ve designed an incredibly clever and ingenious device (Rube Goldberg or otherwise) that will blow out candles while you are standing at least 6 feet away. (No fans or hair dryers allowed). Let’s see it in action.
Item 15 – GISH Insta-Party Projectile Delivery System
Quarantine birthday parties used to be a bummer, but thanks to the GISH Insta-Party Projectile Delivery SystemTM, staying far away is no problem! ‘Launch’ a virtual birthday party including a present and a decorated cake or cupcake to the Birthday Person (in person, at least 12 feet away).
Item 14 – Negative COVID-19 Yelp Review
Unleash your inner Karen on the pandemic. Leave a negative review for COVID-19 on Yelp! Upload an image of a screenshot of your review. This is a first come, first serve item. If Yelp! won’t let you review COVID anymore, don’t panic – there are plenty of other items to accomplish.
Item 13 – GISH Virtual Travel Enterprises
Despite our ingenious use of Amazon boxes in our first mini-Hunt, we know your homes are still stuffed with empty, useless boxes. Let’s repurpose them while giving a huge gift to your neighborhood: the gift of virtual travel. Using scissors, tape, coloring, and your ingenuity, create an internationally-recognized building, statue or monument and place it somewhere in your neighborhood (even if it’s simply in your yard or in front of your building) so people can enjoy beautiful tourist architecture without ever leaving the block. Take a picture with you sitting in front of it holding a sign saying ‘GISH VIRTUAL TRAVEL ENTERPRISES’.
Item 12 – Home Adventure Map
Our homes and neighborhoods are our entire world right now, but that shouldn’t stop us from having adventures – and every adventure starts with an epic, Tolkein-style adventure map. Create an adventure map of your home (including your yard, if you have one) – including the light and the dark places. – Monica D.
Item 11 – Masked Hero
Real heroes wear masks… face masks. Show us Batman, Superman, or another caped crusader helping out at home with daily or parental tasks or as a front-line worker while wearing a hospital-grade surgical or cotton face mask.
Item 10 – Face Mask Pet Fashion
Eventually (maybe years from now) face masks won’t be needed as much as they are now, but it would be such a waste if they all went to landfills. USING AN OLD FACEMASK THAT IS NO LONGER USABLE, devise a fashion accessory for your pet. – Emily
Item 9 – Stressed-Out Stress Management
Anxiety and stress are at a new high due to the pandemic. People deal with stress differently but we all need to be doing something, and right now we should be doing a lot more of it. Show us one thing you do to manage your stress – for example, squeezing a stress ball. But do that thing so furiously that just watching your video stresses me out. (Of course, now you can’t do that suggestion. Sorry…)
Item 8 – Follow Panelists on Social Media
“If you’re inspired by them, follow any or all our Racial Inequality & Injustice panelists on social media and submit an image or grid of screenshots proving you’re following. Following one person on your team gets you 15 points. If one person on your team follows everyone and submits a grid of screenshots – or a single screenshot – proving they’re following all the panelists, your team can receive up to 90 points..
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