One Hundred Activity Ideas

1.              Alpine Stretcher. Made of rope

2.            Back to Front. Do everything back to front.

3.            Blind string trail. As soggy as possible with 'feelie' bags and questions afterwards.

4.            Blindfold. Pack a rucksack, tie knots. Guess objects, smells, voices, sounds.

5.            Board Games night.

6.            Boiling water. In a paper bag.

7.            Bows an Arrows. Build and use bows, and more difficult the arrows to go with them.

8.            Build a camp oven. Dutch oven baking, mud ovens, make biscuits.

9.            Build a hot air balloon. From tissue paper.

10.         Build a Patrol Treehouse!

11.          Build an automatic fire extinguisher for the camp fire.

12.         Build and fly a kite.

13.         Burn through a string. From 10 feet away.

14.         Candle Cooking. Drop scones, tin foil pans.

15.         Caption Contest. Using photographs from the last camp.

16.         Carving. Potatoes, Soap, a Patrol Totem pole, clothes pegs, tent pegs.

17.         Chair Tennis. Sat on chairs using a balloon as the ball.

18.         Chips. Test and vote on the best local chip shop. Award the winners a certificate to display.

19.         Compass making. Using a magnet, needle and cork.

20.       Contour Models. Using polystyrene tiles or fruit.

21.         Cooking Trail. Give a series of bearings, at the end of each leg give an item of food, cooker, fuel etc.

22.       Cycle Maintenance. Cleaning, running repairs.

23.       Daft Olympics. Bean eating, apple dunking, jelly through a straw, popcorn without hands.

24.       Dehydrated food. Hold a tasting.

25.       Display boards. Build and mount a Patrol display board for AGMs, parents meetings etc.

26.       Draw a cartoon. Using thumb prints make a cartoon of the Patrol.

27.       Eat a doughnut without liking your lips.

28.       Fire a stave across the room. On your back using a tyre inner tube.

29.       Fire Drill. Made as realistic as possible.

30.       Fireman’s Lift Race.

31.         Games Ideas. Each Patrol to compile a list of their favourite activities and games.

32.       Get wet. Each Patrol has a match a candle and a water pistol. The candle which stays alight longest wins.

33.       Good turn. Each Patrol must go out and do a good turn within half an hour.

34.       Great Egg race. Build a self propelling device to carry an egg over the greatest distance.

35.       Guess the baby. Each member brings a baby photo of themselves for a board.

36.       Help your local Campsite for a day.

37.       Hikes. Night / Incident hikes.

38.       Hold a Debate.

39.       Human Pyramid. The highest wins.

40.       In the Dark. Run Troop night in the dark.

41.         Ingredients. Each patrol is given a copy of a shopping list from which they must create a menu.

42.       International. Correspond with Scouts in another country. Letters, E-mail, Fax.

43.       Invent a TV advertisement. To promote the Troop and perform it for the Group.

44.       Inventions. Make a tent burglar alarm, a water clock, a fly repellent, a weighing measure, a camp hammock, useless gadgets.

45.       Invite the Guides. Troop night, a party, a barbecue.

46.       Juke Box Jury. Each Patrol brings 2 records.

47.       Learn to Sign. Communicate a simple message using sign language.

48.       Light a Fire. Using anything other than a match or lighter. Batteries and wire wool, magnifying glass or friction.

49.       Line Throwing. Using a monkeys fist knot, throw the line through a suspended tyre.

50.       Log rolling. In a local pond.

51.         Make a Brew. On a raft, up a tree, in a thimble.

52.       Make a methylated spirits cooker.

53.       Make a truck. From 2 bikes lashed together, to carry camp gear.

54.       Make and use a Boomerang.

55.       Make your own candles.

56.       Master Map . Each member of the Patrol is shown a map segment. The Patrol must draw the whole map from memory.

57.       Memory tests. Verbally give some information at the start of the meeting and ask for it back at the end.

58.       Mousetrap. From 12 feet away retrieve a loaded mousetrap without setting off. Use rope, staves etc.

59.       Natural Fashion. On camp evening dress for the meal must be made of natural material.

60.       Needle threading race.

61.         Observation Hike. Do a hike but with observation questions afterwards.

62.       Obstacle Course. Carrying a candle or a raw egg.

63.       Outdoor Cooking. Different types of fires, cooking methods, ethic and regional foods.

64.       Over the Bar. Lash a bar 5 feet off the ground - each Patrol must get over it without touching it.

65.       Pancakes. Cook them using foil frying pans an baked bean tin cookers

66.       Parties. Halloween, Bonfire night, Christmas, The Troop birthday, Burns night and Founders day.

67.       Patrol Boxes. Build and stock Patrol Boxes.

68.       Patrol Name Plates. Make by branding.

69.       Plane making. Balsa wood or paper.

70.       Plaster Casts. Animal tracks, hands, faces.

71.         Questions. Give them the answers - what are the questions ?

72.       Quiz. Each Patrol provides 6 questions for the other Patrols in a round robin quiz.

73.       Rafts. Build a model raft with a sail, and race it. Try wheels and hair dryers for power.

74.       Rope Ladder. Using the marlin spike hitch

75.       Scavenger hunts. Round camp, collecting rubbings, alphabetical lists, lamp post numbers.

76.       Sedan Chair. Each Patrol an then have a race.

77.       Signalling. Morse , semaphore, tin can telephone.

78.       Spiders Web. String a web across the hall, Scouts must get through without touching the web.

79.       Stage a Play. With 10 mistakes built into the script for the Troop to spot.

80.       Stilts. Build and try out stilts made from old cans and string or poles.

81.         Stretcher Race. Make your own.

82.       Sweet making. Cold and cooked sweets, toffee etc.

83.       Swimming. Troop night at the pool, flag break in the water, underwater knotting, hopscotch in the water, blowing balloons up under water.

84.       Take you fingerprints using sellotape.

85.       Tent Erection. In gale (all roped together), blindfolded, in the dark, indoors with drawing pins, upside down or in a tree, with no poles.

86.       Theme Tunes. See who can guess recorded theme tunes correctly.

87.       Throw and catch. Throw a ball up, run forward and catch it. The longest distance wins.

88.       Tidy Up. Clean up a public area, get the press involved.

89.       Tie a Clove Hitch. Round a tree from 10 feet away.

90.       Tie and Dye.

91.         Time estimate. Each member must estimate when a minute has passed.

92.       Town Cryer competition. Winner gets a gob stopper !

93.       Tree Climbing. Prussic hitches, highwayman's hitch.

94.       Troop Newsletter. Produced by the Scouts.

95.       Tug of War.

96.       Walk through a postcard. By cutting up a postcard, walk through it.

97.       Water Collection. Build a solar still, a rainwater collecting device.

98.       Wear War paint for the evening.

99.       Woggle Making. Using leather, bone, wood, shells, pieces of junk.

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