Things to do on Scout camp

Things to Do on Camp

Scouting Skills

• Name the parts of an axe. [Instructions]
• Name the parts of a knife. [Instructions]
• Demonstrate the correct use of a knife, axe, and saw. [Instructions]
• Demonstrate how to collect wood, cut it to size, and store it.
• Demonstrate the correct way to light a match.
• Lay out and light a cooking fire. [Instructions]
• Lay out and light a campfire. [Instructions]
• Demonstrate how to pack a rucksack for an overnight hike. [Instructions]
• Demonstrate how to light a paraffin lamp.
• Demonstrate how to change the mantle in a paraffin or gas lamp (when required). [Instructions]
• Memorize the phonetic alphabet. [Instructions]
• Write a message in Morse code. [Instructions]
• Tell a joke in semaphore. [Instructions]
• Tell another joke in Morse code.
• Write an appropriate prayer in time for the Scouts’ Own.
• Write and recite a prayer at morning or evening flag.
• Recite the Scout Promise and the Scout Law as a patrol at inspection. [Text]
• Identify six map signs. [Instructions]
• Identify another six map signs.
• Draw twenty Ordnance Survey map symbols. Hold a test amongst your patrol. [Instructions]
• Design and play a game of map symbol bingo. Each card should have at least twenty symbols.
• Give the compass bearing of six objects from the flagpole. [Instructions]
• Count to ten in a foreign language.
• Teach a member of your patrol how to do any 6 of the above.

Things to Make

• A whistle from natural materials. [Instructions]
• A tent peg.
• A Turk’s head woggle. [Instructions]
• A woggle out of natural materials found on site. It must last at least three days.
• A woggle other than those above.
• A lantern. [Instructions]
• A rope ladder and use it to climb into a tree. [Instructions]
• A water purification system that will turn a glass of squash into pure water.
• A fire alarm. Hold a fire drill for your patrol, making sure they are aware of fire protocol and the firefighting devices available to them.
• A flag for your patrol site.
• A perimeter intruder alarm for your site out of string and tin cans. [Instructions]
• A set of wind chimes and hang them from your dining shelter, etc. [Instructions]
• A string telephone for communication across the site, from your patrol tent to an amenity of your choice. [Instructions]
• An aerial railway for sending small boxes between all the tents on the site without going outside.
• A useful accessory for a leader’s vehicle.
• A device to sort/sieve different sized stones.
• A survival pack and explain its contents to a leader. [Instructions]
• An emergency waterproof.
• Emergency toothpaste for the patrol to clean their teeth with. (Hint: 1 tsp. salt: 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda.) [Instructions]
• A stretcher. Carry a member of your patrol to the first aid tent. [Instructions]
• A pair of snow blindness goggles.
• Nettle soup or tea. [Instructions]
• The smallest underwear in the world.
• A washing line for the smallest underwear in the world.
• False ponytails for the entire patrol.
• A hot air balloon that can rise to one meter above ground level. [Instructions]
• A kite that can fly for three minutes. [Instructions]
• A rocket that can travel over a 2-meter bar 5 meters away.
• A game of skittles or table skittles. [Instructions]
• A swing ball game.
• A swing ball game with a bucket of water.
• A bow and arrow and demonstrate it. [Instructions]
• A replica of the Jules Rimet trophy at least two feet tall using natural materials.
• A game of blow football.
• An assault course with 6 incidents and have a camp competition.
• An Indian fire.
• An instrument to measure wind direction and speed and use it to record the wind direction and speed for four days. [Instructions]
• A working sundial. [Instructions]
• A barometer and use it to measure the air pressure for four days. [Instructions]

Practical Things to Do

• Construct a recycling facility. Collect all your recyclable waste for at least four days and design and make a can-crushing machine. [Instructions]
• Decide which five Proficiency Badges interest each Scout in your patrol. Prepare a display of your results. Which is the most popular badge in your patrol? Prepare a ten-point plan describing how, on your return to your troop, you will obtain this badge.
• Design a new Proficiency Badge. Your design must include a drawing of what the badge will look like and describe what you must do to get it.
• Write and send a postcard home (every patrol member, to arrive by Friday). The Leaders will post them for you.
• Design a Scout uniform for the millennium.
• Estimate the height of a given object. [Instructions]
• Submit a complete set of British Coins.
• Plan a night’s activity for when you return to your troop. It must include times, resources required, drafts of letters, etc.
• Calculate how many tent pegs are used on site. Present your report to a leader for checking.
• Carry out a safety inspection of the campsite and present your findings to the leaders.
• Waterproof a box of matches. [Instructions]
• Make a set of firelighters (Cotton wool + Vaseline, fluff + candle wax). [Instructions]

Fun Things to Do

• Camouflage your PL so that he cannot be seen among trees.
• Cut a piece of A4 paper so that the whole patrol can walk through it. No joins! [Instructions]
• Dress up as a sheep.
• Fit as many items as you can in a small matchbox.
• Fit as many things as you can in a film canister.
• Fit as many things as you can in a large matchbox.
• Fit as many things as you can into a patrol box.
• Hold a wellie-throwing competition amongst your patrol, complete with a trophy for the winner.
• Do a scavenger hunt around the site. You must find twenty separate objects to gain the points. Find something: prickly, smooth, belonging to an animal, soft, hard, smelly, tiny, flat, tickly, squishy, flaky, crackly, somebody else has dropped, that shouldn’t be here, long, natural and edible, rough, round, orange, wet, sharp.
• Stand your whole patrol on a sheet of A4 paper.
• Dress the entire patrol back-to-front in full uniform for flag break.
• Using a tin can and candle, prepare mini pancakes or omelettes for the entire patrol.
• Have a time trial for which patrol can tow the same log 100m using a timber hitch. [Instructions]
• Learn to play the card game “Solo.”

Nature Things to Do

• Make a wormery. [Instructions]
• Create a miniature garden in a bowl, etc. [Instructions]
• Humanely capture a woodlouse, beetle, worm, caterpillar, slug, and snail. Show a leader and then return them to where they came. Any abuse will lead to all marks being deducted.
• Identify six trees. [Instructions]
• Collect six leaves and name them.
• Identify basic cloud types and the weather associated with them. [Instructions]
• Recognize the following constellations: Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Lyra, Aquila, Delphinus. [Instructions]
• Recognize the following stars: Deneb, Vega, Altair.
• Make a star chart for identifying at least 5 constellations. [Instructions]
• Build an accurate model of the Solar System using spherical objects. Hang it from your dining shelter, etc.

First Aid

• Demonstrate the recovery position on an “unconscious” member of your patrol. [Instructions]
• Use a triangular bandage for two types of slings. [Instructions]
• Use a triangular bandage for a knee bandage.
• Use a triangular bandage for a hand bandage.
• Demonstrate an improvised sling (without using your neckerchief).
• Make a simulated injury using play dough and any other suitable materials.
• Demonstrate the two-handed lift on a member of your patrol.