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Best behaviour

Match the benefits with the behaviours to show how much your team knows about healthy lifestyles.

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You’ll need

  • Pens or pencils
  • Sticky dots
  • Sticky tack
  • Tables
  • A4 paper
Behaviour Bases And Outcomes (1)
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Set the tone

  • Print the ‘Behaviour bases and outcomes’ sheet or write the different bases and outcomes on sheets of paper.
  • Use sticky tack to stick the bases on the wall at different points around the meeting space. Make sure each base is low enough that everyone can reach it.
  • Cut out the outcomes, and put them on a table in the middle of the space. Cut out each bullet point separately.
  • If you don’t have sticky dots, people could also use coloured pens or pencils to mark the outcomes.

Behaviour bases

  1. Everyone should split into four teams and the person leading the activity should name each team a colour. Each colour should be one of the colours on the sheet of coloured dot stickers. The person leading the activity should give each team their coloured stickers in that colour.
  1. All of the teams should start in the same place. The person leading the activity should say ‘Go!’ and one member of each team should run to the centre of the room, pick an outcome, stick their coloured dot on it, and put it next to the behaviour base sign that causes it. When they return, the next person should go.
  2. Everyone should continue taking it in turns (one at a time) to sticker an outcome and put it by the matching behaviour base. 
  1. The person leading the activity should count up the coloured stickers and announce a winning team. Everyone should talk about the decisions they made – how many of them were right? Did anyone find any of the outcomes surprising? Do they know of any other benefits of the behaviours?

Reflection

In this activity, everyone matched some behaviours to their likely outcomes. Was anyone surprised by any of the matches? What little changes could they make to try to achieve the positive outcomes? 

Moving back and forth between the teams, the outcome slips, and the behaviour signs means that this activity was a great chance to get moving. Was it important to be fast in this activity, or was it more important to think on your feet and make good decisions?

Safety

All activities must be safely managed. You must complete a thorough risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Always get approval for the activity, and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

Active games

The game area should be free of hazards. Explain the rules of the game clearly and have a clear way to communicate that the game must stop when needed. Take a look at our guidance on running active games safely.

Reduce the number of outcomes and remove any duplicates to make it simpler. 

Everyone should move in a way that works for them. If you need to, you could give each group the same number of outcomes and remove the speed element so everyone can focus on putting them in the right place. 

All Scout activities should be inclusive and accessible.

Scouts Skills Challenge Award

The group should think more about how they can remind themselves, friends, and family to live a healthy lifestyle. Everyone could make a poster with the eleven behaviours and their outcomes to go on the wall at home or in their meeting place.