Washing Line Turks Head Woggle

A lot cheaper than leather, we used washing line to tie Turks Head Woggles with Scouts this evening. You need a 1m length per woggle and a short piece of dowel or stick of a suitable diameter. Plus copies of the instructions to tie the knot, which you can find online.

Scarf Marionette Puppets

Having seen the videos below, and others in the series, I decided that our Scouts could probably manage to do something similar.

We put trestle tables on their side to display scenery and the Scouts dangled their puppets over from the back to perform. Each patrol made about 3 puppets, the scenery, along with a script / storyboard after having come up with a concept for a story that they wanted to re-enact. We used recycling materials, tape, cotton, carboard, stapler, bamboo canes, etc.

Outline instructions for making simple puppets:
http://www.magicalmoonshine.org/scarfpuppet.htm

War Memorial Tour on Remembrance Day 2011

I could not get access to the Scots American War Memorial in Princes Street Gardens or the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle on the evening (despite asking), so here's what we did instead...

We walked the Scouts up from where we meet, into central Edinburgh and then stopped at various war memorials along Princes Street (above the one in Princes Street Gardens), on to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers Memorial on North Bridge and then up to the War Memorial at the City Chambers, discussed here.

At each stop I read something out that I had got from the internet, either some information or a relatively well know poem. In Flanders Fields, or the one with 'we will remember them' in it.

At one of the early stops I gave them each a slip of red paper and asked them to carry it to the next stop and then at the next stop while I read a poem they passed a pen around and were invited to write on their paper 'we will remember them', then they carried it to the next stop and while I read another poem my Assistant Scout Leader stapled all the bits of paper in loops around a black circle of paper to make a poppy which we laid at the City Chambers memorial.

Model Aeroplanes

BMFA Dart Model Aeroplane
http://www.bmfa.org/education/kits.html

Ice Hockey

Freeze cubes or a bowl of ice and then use it as a puck for a game of hockey (using hockey sticks, staves or wooden spoons).

Earth ball

Scouts split into two teams and get given six pioneering poles and some rope. They build a pair of tripods as goal posts. Mark out the boundaries of play with rope / bunting.

Earth ball pushed into the middle of play as teams start from their goal mouth. Sensible play required as a player going 'over' the earth ball may result in serious injury.

Yellow Pages / Phone Book

Split into groups with at least one copy of (the same edition of) the yellow pages / other phone book per team.
Prepare by flicking through and making up questions for the teams. They must find certain information based on the specific details you request. This game / activity could be done as individual challenges, like a relay, or to see who can answer all questions fastest / working simultaneously as a team.

Information provided:

• Category of company
• Name of business
• Logo of business
• Services provided
• Page number

Information required:

• Phone number
• Website address
• Email address
• Address
• Opening times
• What picture is included in the advert

Example:

• The moving company with a cat as their logo
• Phone number of window cleaner with the following address
• What time does this company close on a Saturday
• Name of first company on page X