Scouting Challenges

• Create a new uniform for your section, once you have the idea can you make it out of paper or material?

• Create an activity badge for anything you would like to earn a badge for. Design the badge and list the criteria to earn it.

• Can you draw and decorate a timeline of Scouting?

• Who are our Scouting Ambassadors and Scouting Adventurers?

• Pick an Ambassador / Adventurer and write / draw a profile all about them.

• Who do you think the NEXT Chief Scout should be and Why?

• Create a poster to promote Scouting on a computer.

• Make up a new Scout promise and law.

Challenges for all sections

This is our eighth week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Communication Challenges

• Learn how to finger spell your name (BSL).

• Spell out your name using items to represent each letter e.g. Smith could be Sock, medal, iron, tray, handle.

• Create a message using the phonetic alphabet.

• Learn some words and phrases using Makaton sign language.

• Create a code and then send a message in the code and get a friend to try and crack the code!

• Semaphore – find out how semaphore works and make a video message using it.

• Create a message using Morse code, this can be done using sound or lights.

• Create a message using Braille.

Challenges for all sections

This is our seventh week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

International Challenges

• Create some bunting using as many different countries flags as you can.

• Bake your own Anzac biscuits from Australia.

• Learn to say hello, please, thank-you in different languages.

• What countries have hosted the World Scout Jamboree? Can you find a fact out for each one?

• Find out if different countries call their sections different names? Present them in an interesting way.

• Create a boomerang and decorate it with aboriginal inspired art.

• Make a world map, be creative it doesn’t have to be drawn on paper.

• Research different country traditions and come up with your own tradition for your town or village.

• Do a project on a Country of your choice, include lots of different facts in different ways.

Challenges for all sections

This is our sixth week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Experimental Challenges

• Look at the science of ‘clean’ and create a bath bomb out of bicarbonate of soda.

• Pick a rainbow themed experiment to try.

• Make a bottle rocket to launch via water pressure with a bike pump.

• Carry out an experiment using magnets.

• Make up some honeycomb toffee and watch the chemical reaction.

• Grow your own crystals from salt water.

• Make ice cream without using a freezer.

• Can you make a volcano that explodes?

• Recreate your favourite experiment and present it in a video.

• Make invisible ink using 3 different methods.

Challenges for all sections

This is our fifth week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Pioneering Challenges

• Build a catapult.

• You and 2 of your family are stranded on an island, build a raft or a boat to get you all home.

• London Bridge has fallen down, the Mayor has requested if could build a new one!

• Build an outdoor shelter out of natural materials.

• Build a camp entrance gateway.

• Design and build a pioneering project.

• Build a camp flag pole, make sure you have a flag flying from it.

Challenges for all sections

This is our forth week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Food Challenges

• It’s pizza time! Design your favourite pizza for your family to enjoy.

• Make a cake in a mug.

• Bake some scones or host a cream tea.

• Make your own lemonade!

• Design and cook a 3-course meal for your family, make it really special… maybe you could theme it – Italian or foods from around the world?

• Cook some food in the open air.

• Decorate a cake or some biscuits, if you can, bake them as well.

• Make a solar oven and cook something in it.

• Can you create a dish that looks like another type of food? E.g. a cake that looks like a burger!

• To be healthy you need to eat a rainbow – create a meal using every colour of the rainbow.

• Mystery chef – Make a dish out of the following ingredients – onion, ham, tomato and potato. You can add other ingredients to it.

• Attend an online cooking course or session.

Challenges for all sections

This is our third week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Nature Challenges

• Make a bird box or feeder.

• Find a place to construct a nature hotel, don’t forget to take photos of any visitors.

• The daisies are out as Summer is on its way, create a daisy chain.

• Using a blade of grass play a tune.

• Nature is full of colours, find something natural in each of the rainbow’s colours.

• Make a butterfly feeder for the garden.

• DIY your own bees wax food wraps for your lunch box.

• Plant some wildflower seeds and help your garden become a better habitat for bees? Not got a garden?... window boxes are a great alternative.

• Keep a diary of garden visitors to your area, birds or any others you may be lucky enough to have.

• Create some seed bombs and fling them!

• Create a tree identification book of at least 10 different UK trees, include pictures of the leaves, flowers, seeds and how to ID the tree whilst in bud.

• Research the different bat species in the UK and make a presentation about them.

Group Camp at Home - Saturday 23rd May

This coming weekend would have been our annual Group camp, therefore we thought it would be a great idea to encourage all of our sections to camp at home. This will be from 5pm Saturday until 10am Sunday.

1. All members, siblings and pets can join in.

2. Their bed for the Camp, should be anywhere but a bed. Pitch a tent or bivvi in your garden, make a den under a table or in the corner of your living room, a play tent could be pitched in the bedroom. The choice is yours. For those who are creative - an indoor tent from sheets would be fab.

3. Think of an easy meal that they can make for themselves in the evening. Beans on toast, boiled egg and soldiers, Sausage chips and peas, Pasta and sauce....Whatever you feel your child/ren can make themselves under your careful eye.

4. Make a campfire, this could be a disposable BBQ outside, a garden fire pit or chimenea, or an pretend indoor fire made from coloured paper and cardboard or sticks that can be collected beforehand.

5. Sing songs, tell stories, make smoores, drink hot chocolate eat snacks and have fun.

6. Spend the night in your homemade camp and then after a heart breakfast, tidy up and pack everything away.

Remember, wear your necker and share plenty of pictures and videos with us. We look forward to seeing lots of you camping at home too...

Challenges for all sections

This is our second week of themed challenges, many of which link to badge elements.

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

Sporty Challenges

• Build an obstacle course and have a race against a family member.

• The Olympics have been postponed for a year, prepare by making your own edible medals you could use biscuits and jelly laces for ribbons.

• Create your own sports equipment i.e. newspaper bats and use them to play a game of your choice.

• Create your own table football from an old cardboard box / shoe box and have a game.

• Take part in #HikeToTheMoon.

• Participate in an online fitness class over a period of time.

• Create your own digital exercise class and share it, include warm up and cool down stretches and safety information.

• Take part in a 30-day sport challenge.

• Research the Paralympics and come up with a sport/game that could be used. Explain how it would be adapted for different disabilities.

Creative Challenges

Pick and complete at least one challenge each week, of course you can do more if you wish. Select an ability appropriate task; remember it is supposed to be a challenge and if it seems easy then please choose a harder one!

Once you have completed your challenge, post pictures and videos onto your sectional pages or email evidence by clicking on Cleo (our group mascot).

• Create a rainbow or a large piece of artwork to display in your window to spread joy to others on their daily exercise.

• Design and send a postcard to a neighbour or family member who may be lonely.

• Create origami animals or puppets and use them to act out a story.

• Draw or paint the landscape view from your window.

• Create a Covid ‘Lockdown’ time capsule, you could use a Pringle tube or similar for the capsule.

• Are you bored of your board games? Why not create a new board game and show your family how to play it.

• Build a robotic hand using string and straws.

• Recreate a famous painting; this can be painted, made out of items in the house, anything you like.

• Create something using paracord or rope.

Challenge for all sections

As you already have plenty of badge-work to keep you busy over the Easter Holidays we thought that we would set you all the same, Easter themed challenge.

Our challenge for all sections is to test your construction skills and build the tallest tower you can to support an egg.

The bigger and more imaginative the better.

When you can't make it any taller, measure it and share a picture with us.