Ready-to-use scouting and outdoor activity plans for leaders, with ideas organised by duration, setting and activity type for easy session planning.
Activity Overview Can your team build a stable star-shaped campfire? 👦 Age: 8–18👥 Group size: 4–24⏱️ Duration: 45–60 minutes📍 Location: Outdoors⭐ Difficulty: 3/5 A good campfire doesn’t happen by accident. Before you strike a match or create a spark, you need to think about the location, fuel, airflow, structure and safety around the fire. In…
Activity Overview Can you spot the hazards before they cause a problem? 👦 Age: 8–18👥 Group size: 4–30⏱️ Duration: 45–60 minutes📍 Location: Indoors or outdoors⭐ Difficulty: 2/5 Imagine you’ve just arrived at a campsite. Everything looks fine at first, but there could be hazards hiding in plain sight. A loose guyline, a bag left on…
Activity Overview Can you build a tiny raft that actually floats? 👦 Age: 6–18👥 Group size: 2–30⏱️ Duration: 30–45 minutes📍 Location: Outdoors or indoors⭐ Difficulty: 2/5 Grab some sticks, find some string and get ready to build. This simple twig raft activity is a brilliant way to combine outdoor exploration, knot tying, creativity and problem-solving….
Activity Overview Can you build a safe little home for solitary bees? 👦 Age: 6–18👥 Group size: 2–30⏱️ Duration: 45–60 minutes📍 Location: Outdoors or indoors⭐ Difficulty: 2/5 Bees aren’t just busy making honey. They’re also incredibly important pollinators, helping plants produce fruits, seeds and new growth. In this hands-on nature activity, you’ll learn a little…
Activity Overview Can your team plan and complete a mountain rescue? 👦 Age: 8–18👥 Group size: 6–30⏱️ Duration: 45–60 minutes📍 Location: Indoors or outdoors⭐ Difficulty: 3/5 Imagine you’re part of a mountain rescue team. Your group has received an emergency call: an explorer has become injured while travelling through the mountains and needs help getting…
Activity Overview Difficulty: AdvancedTime: 90 minutesGroup size: 6-10Best for: ExplorersSkills: Problem-solving, teamwork, decision-making, survival, communication Explorers work through a series of outdoor survival problems with limited equipment and time. Each challenge requires them to discuss the situation, agree on a solution and explain why they chose it. What You’ll Learn Explorers will practise: 🟡 SAFETY…
Activity Overview Difficulty: IntermediateTime: 60 minutesGroup size: 11-20Best for: ScoutsSkills: Survival, teamwork, decision-making, navigation, communication Scouts are given a realistic lost-in-the-woods scenario and must work as a team to decide what to do, what equipment to use and how to attract attention. The challenge focuses on good decisions rather than speed. What You’ll Learn Scouts…
Activity Overview Difficulty: BeginnerTime: 60 minutesGroup size: 6-10Best for: ScoutsSkills: Signalling, creativity, teamwork, problem solving, survival awareness Scouts work in small teams to design and build a visible emergency signal using simple materials. They then test how easy their signal is to spot from a distance and improve it. What You’ll Learn Scouts will practise:…
Activity Overview Difficulty: IntermediateTime: 60 minutesGroup size: 11-20Best for: ScoutsSkills: Signalling, communication, teamwork, emergency awareness, problem-solving Scouts learn how to attract attention and communicate for help using a range of emergency signals. Teams then complete practical challenges where they must choose and create an appropriate signal for different situations. What You’ll Learn Scouts will practise:…
Activity Overview Difficulty: IntermediateTime: 90 minutesGroup size: 6-10Best for: ScoutsSkills: Compass use, navigation, bearings, distance estimation, teamwork, communication, problem solving Give each team a compass, a starting point and a sequence of bearings with approximate distances. Teams must follow each bearing accurately, estimate the distance travelled and locate the next marker or instruction. The winning…
