Cub Scout and Boy Scout Activities

1. 0nly index fingers can touch the pole.
2. Everyone's index fingers must touch the pole at all times.
3. fingers must remain extended, no grabbing or holding the stick

• Drivers obey all traffic laws and speed limits.
• Seatbelts are worn at all times.
• Return before the deadline - anyone late gets zero points.

• Drink pop at McDonald's
• Swing at a playground
• Play a musical instrument
• Knock on the door of a store with a CLOSED sign in the window
• Push a WALK button
• Shake hands with someone in uniform
• Kiss a girl
• Look for a rental video
• Drink from a drinking fountain
• Swim in a public pond or fountain
• Climb a tree
• Visit City Hall
• Use an ATM
• Hug a Girl Scout in uniform
• Look inside a blue postbox
• Sit on a fire hydrant
• See where you go to school
• ... add more

1. Can not throw balls.
2. Can not take a ball from another player.
3. Can not guard your circle.

• Can only tap balloons - no grabbing or holding.

• Biggest Balloon - blow up a balloon as big as possible without popping it. Each contestant should not be able to see the others until finished.
• Balloon Blow - be the first to blow up a balloon until it pops.
• Balloon Throw - throw a balloon the farthest.
• Balloon Kick - kick a balloon the farthest.
• Balloon Aloft - keep your balloon aloft the longest by only blowing on it. Touch it and you are out.
• Balloon Badminton - teams of two bat their balloon back and forth over a high rope. The most exchanges in a time limit wins.
• Balloon Battle - tie balloon around ankle. Stomp on other contestants' balloons while being the last one with a balloon.
• Balloon Retrieval - retrieve 10 balloons scattered around an area. Bring one at a time back to your team. (possibly assign a specific color to each team)
• Balloon Relay - team stands in a line and bats each balloon down the line with open hands. Be first team to move all 10 balloons from one end to the other.
• Balloon Burst - first to pop all 10 balloons by sitting on them.
• Other Events - make up more and I'll add them.

• one trigger on the bottom.
• 4 triggers on the sides.

 
• Bucket can not be moved.
 
• Everyone has to let go of the bungee within 1 second of the first scout letting go - simultaneous release is the goal here.
 
• Bungee must be completely stretched - might want to draw a circle that everyone must be outside of.
 

• one lying on the ground with a label 'Dead - shot in head'.
• one leaning against a tree still conscious having been shot through the leg, breaking his thigh bone.
• one hidden laying a bit off in the woods with a label 'severe cut on arm, unconscious from blood loss'

1. The chair must use only the materials provided, but not necessarily all the materials.
2. The scout that sits on the chair must keep all body parts at least 1.5 feet above the ground for 2 minutes.
3. Only one scout from the patrol can be past the start line at a time.
4. Each scout must put on work goggles before entering the work area or they will be sent back to the start line.
5. Each scout can nail at most one nail per trip to the work area.
6. Each scout in the patrol makes a trip to the work area before any scout goes a second time - stay in order and take turns, not just one scout going back and forth.
7. The last scout to finish the chair returns to the start line before the 'sitter' goes to the work area to sit.

1. Anyone touching the fence must start over. Anyone touching that scout when he touches the fence also must start over.
2. If the board touches the fence, everyone touching the board must start over.
3. The trees are part of the fence.
4. No one may be thrown.

• Eggs crawl on their knees.
• Larva crouch down and wriggle as they walk.
• Pupa stand up, but must hop with their feet together.
• Butterflies raise their arms up and down.

• Anything that touches the ground within the two circles indicating Falcon Gap is immediately lost.
• Any person that touches Falcon Gap dies and the team loses or starts over.
• Nothing can be left on Falcon Island when the team escapes.

• What made this activity difficult?
• Did the two groups work separately or as a single team?
• What skills did you use?
• How did you reach your plan? Were everyone's ideas given and evaluated?

• 10 Hiking Essentials
• 7 Leave No Trace Principles
• 7 Safe Swim Defense principles
• 9 Safety Afloat principles
• 6 knots required for First Class
• Levels of Food Pyramid
• 5 signs of heart attack

• Do not move or change the shape or size of a circle.
• When the leader says, 'Switch!' you move to a different circle if possible.

• Cut a 12x12 inch fiberboard square (like shelving).
• Drill a 1/4 inch hole in each corner.
• Cut apart a wire clothes hanger into 12 inch lengths.
• Bend one end of the wire into a tight J shape so it fits snuggly into a hole in the platform.
• Insert wires in opposite holes and string a string from one to the other, putting tension on the wires.
• Measure that all the strings are at the same height for fairness.
• When the string burns through, the wires snap outward so it is obvious.

1. Only the frisbees can touch the ground.
2. Everyone throws their own frisbee.
3. Only one chance to throw your frisbee.
4. Only one scout at a time can be over the electric worm bed or else the worms will be disturbed by the extra weight.

1. Stove fuel containers left open and not stored away
2. Pot with water left on stove
3. Food scraps left around cooking area
4. Dirty, rusty knife used for food prep
5. Water bottle left open
6. Perishable food left out of cooler
7. Non-perishable food left out of patrol box
8. Cooler lid left open
9. Dirty cooking dishes
10. Dirty dish wash water left in basins
11. No soap in wash water
12. Some dishes cleaned sitting flat on table to dry instead of in drying bag
13. Trash bag with garbage in it left on ground
14. Plastic drink bottles in campfire pit
15. Knife stuck in picnic table
16. Dining fly set up over stove instead of over table and work area
17. Dining fly sagging to center so it accumulates rain
18. Whittled stick and shavings on picnic table instead of in ax area
19. Matches left out by stove
20. Tent set up in low spot or steep slope
21. Tent fly open
22. Food in tent
23. Candle in tent
24. Gameboy in tent
25. Tent rope tied to small live tree
26. No rain fly on tent
27. Green stick cut and used for tent stake
28. Tent set up very close to fire
29. Fire built outside of fire ring
30. No fire buckets
31. Smoldering fire left
32. First aid kit sitting out open by fire
33. Opened bandages in kit
34. Dirt in kit
35. Ropes lying on ground
36. Small ax yard in brushy area
37. Ax laying on ground
38. Unsheathed saw laying on cutting stump
39. And other things ...

1. Every foot must be in constant contact with at least one other teammate's foot.
2. One left foot and one right foot in the team may be unconnected.

1. No looking, talking, or touching.
2. Every scout says exactly one number.
3. If two scouts say the same number, start over.
4. If the wrong number is said, start over.

• Your team will draw a structure.
• You may use no more than 25 lines.
• Each scout may only draw one line and then pass the pen.
• The patrol leader draws the first line.
• Each team has one extra Special Rule which I will now tell you.

• Everyone can talk.
• No one can talk.
• Only the patrol leader can talk.
• Only the scout holding the pen can talk.
• No one can talk, but the patrol leader can just draw the entire structure if he wants.

1. Must throw it to someone that has not caught it yet.
2. Must throw it to someone that is not directly next to you.
3. Last scout throws it back to the first scout.

• Tiger - hands like claws and roar.
• Deer - hands like antlers and prance.
• Gorilla - hands hang down and grunt.

• Your Goal is to build a meaningful, interesting sculpture.
• You have up to eight minutes to plan what you are going to create and how you will do it. You may NOT TOUCH the items.
• When you are ready, or when time is up, you will then have 10 minutes to build your sculpture. Once the items are touched, you CAN NOT TALK.
• When the sculptures are finished, you will present your sculpture to the group and explain its deep meaning.

• What was the plan used to solve the problem?
• How did you all come to that plan?
• How was Trust needed in this activity?
• How did you show you could be trusted?

• The leader holds a map of the route so only he can see it. (See examples below).
• A scout steps onto any stone in the the grid.
• If it is the next stone in the sequence, the leader rings the bell and the scout steps to another stone.
• If it is not the correct stone, the bell is not rung and the scout must now backtrack out the correct route to the beginning.
• The team gets a point if a scout steps on a square out of sequence while backtracking.

• How were points received?
• How did people react when points were gained?
• Who took on leadership? In what ways?
• What did you discover about this patrol and about yourself?

09 01 07 06      03 04 07 06
10 08 02 05      01 02 05 08
12 11 03 04      11 13 09 16
13 14 15 16      12 10 14 15

• Rub hands together
• Snap fingers
• Clap hands
• Slap thighs
• Stomp feet
• Slap thighs
• Clap hands
• Snap fingers
• Rub hands
• Hands on lap