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Session 14

5 activities

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Your session goals
Our Outdoors
Our Outdoors 4%
Our World
Our World 24%
Team Leader
Team Leader 25%
Teamwork
Teamwork 20%
Naturalist
Naturalist 75%

Session summary

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Activities

Learn about the Countryside Code

20 mins

Learn the Countryside Code in an interactive game to get you ready for the outdoors.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 3
  • Meets
  • Requirement 2.b

Visiting nature

15 mins

Time to take note of nature and discover how the world changes around us.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 2

Mother Nature’s ID challenge

1 hours

Head outdoors to explore the trees, leaves, butterflies and bugs waiting to be discovered.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 1
  • Requirement 2

Hidden treasure

15 mins

Blindfolded treasure hunters need their friends’ help to make it through an obstacle course and claim the prize.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 1
  • Meets
  • Requirement 1

Part of the family

30 mins

Host a The Jungle Book themed Scout’s Own to explore different types of families and what it means to be a part of them.

  • Meets
  • Requirement 3
  • Requirement 5

Preparation

Equipment

  • A4 paper
  • Pens or pencils
  • Camera or phone (optional)
  • Access to a printer
  • Phone (optional)
  • Objects (for example chairs, poles, boxes, rope, cones)
  • Treasure (for example chocolate coins or pretend money)
  • Scrap paper

Resources

Part of the family - Shaping a Scouts' Own

PDF - 103.4KB

Part of the family - Scout family circle

PDF - 73.7KB

Session notes

We recommend starting this day out at 10am, so you can fit all the activities in. You may need extra volunteers for the day out or sleepover. When everyone's together, it's a great chance to start thinking about Sixers and Seconders – why not do this with the whole pack?

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