Troop Night Challenges  

These are taken from ScoutNet.

Newspaper Pioneering

Supply each patrol with a large amount of old newspaper and sellotape. Each patrol then has to construct the tallest free standing structure which will support an egg.

Electric Firelighters

Here's one to try with your Scouts, but be warned as some of the wires and pieces of metal can get very hot

Take a battery pack from a remote controlled car. Hook up two wires to both ends of a ball point pen spring. Wrap matches around the spring and place them under some birch bark, squaw wood or other kindling.

Now run some lengths of speaker wire or whatever to the battery. Connect to the positive and negative terminals of the battery and the spring heats up igniting the matches and the fire starter material.

Budget Food

Allocated a small budget, say 25p per head, produce a two course meal at next weekl’s Troop night.

The main ingredients must be paid for from the budget but these can be supplemented from kitchen cupboards i.e. salt, pepper, sugar and oil etc.

The meal is to be cooked at the Scout meeting on camping stoves.

Mystery Meals

Buy in advance some tins of food i.e. one meat tin, one veg. tin, one pudding tin for each patrol. Pick tins that are reasonably identical in size and shape.

Remove all the labels from the tins and invite three members from each patrol to pick a tin (taking it in patrol rotation i.e. one from one patrol followed by one from the next patrol etc.)

Challenge the patrol to make an interesting meal from the tins they have chosen. You could end up with some weird and wonderful concoctions!

Photo Proof

Following our photo theme all of the challenges involve getting photographic evidence of you achievements. So without any further delay. Here they are:-

A photo of a famous person wearing the group's necker

Your entire Patrol balanced on a trig point

A photo booth picture of, yes you guessed it, your whole patrol (do it in your local shopping centre without getting thrown out)

A recreation of a famous painting made up of members of your patrol. (Your PL as Mona Lisa perhaps)

Suggest at least ten challenges for the other Patrols but you have to prove you can do them!

Hot Air Balloons

Make hot air balloons.

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