Tuho Youth Shaping

Before you begin

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here.  Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Collect 18 sticks, each 10 centimetres in length, and place them at one end of your meeting place.
• Place the six containers at the opposite side of your meeting place in a line, with some space in between each one.
• Write or print out the list of jamboree keywords. Cut them out individually, and stick them up on the walls around your meeting place.
• The first part of this activity involves writing things down. For the younger sections, consider completing this as a whole group and getting a leader to write down any ideas.

Jamboree ideas

1. Have a chat with everyone about jamborees and international opportunities within Scouting.

Have a look at our International Scouts and Events page for more information.

2. Ask everyone to get into pairs, and give everyone a pen and piece of paper each.
3. Explain to everyone that they will walk around the room in their pairs, and look at the topics on the walls. While they are at a topic, ask them to discuss each one, and write down any activity or game ideas they can think of that relate to that topic on one piece of paper.

There are some suggestions for ideas below if anyone needs some help.

4. Give everyone 15 minutes to walk around the room.

If needed, you could think about setting a time limit for each topic, and ask people to rotate around the room to make sure all the areas are covered.

5. When everyone has looked at all the topics, ask everyone to sit in their pairs and pick their top two ideas.
6. After they have picked their ideas, ask everyone to tear a new blank piece of paper in half, and write down on their two ideas with one on each half of the paper.

It’s Tuho time!

1. Have a chat with everyone about what Tuho is and how it is played.

It’s a traditional Korean game where everyone takes it in turns to throw sticks into a pot or container. Scores are kept to see how many sticks each person gets inside the container, and the one with the most at the end of the game wins.

2. Explain that the game will help everyone choose an activity to suggest to the UK Jamboree Contingent. Everyone will be playing multiple rounds to help find the winning game. A new round starts when the last round ends.
3. In their pairs they will have six sticks and two containers. They will place both their ideas inside the containers, one in each, and take three sticks each.
4. Standing three metres away from the containers, they will take it in turns to throw their sticks into the container containing their favourite idea from the two options.
5. At the end of the round, the idea with the most sticks inside the container moves through to the next round along with one member of that pair.

The pair can choose who goes into the next round between them. They can even swap over if they move into further rounds.

6. When everyone is happy with how the game works, start the first round. If you have six containers set up you could have three pairs throwing at the same time.

During the round keep rotating the pairs when the containers are free. Think about keeping a record of which idea and person is moving onto the next round or ask them to stand in a certain place in your meeting place.

7. When the first round is over pair the winning ideas up, and repeat the process until you have two people left at the end. This final round will decide which idea will be submitted to the UK Leadership Team.

If you have an odd number then you could have three people throwing at once, and the winner from the three is the one to be submitted.

8. After the final round has finished, submit the winning idea using this form.