Fun program ideas for Scouts and other youth groups - Other Daft Ideas

Things that are fun but didn't seem to fit anywhere else.

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Knights in Cardboard Armour

Time: 30 - 60 minutes
Equipment:Cardboard boxes
Clear tape (Sellotape)
String
Marker Pens
The challenge: Design a suit of armour for each member of your team, including cardboard sword and shield.
Knights from each team join in mortal combat against each other (!)
Hints: You could use some of the team as 'horses' and have a jousting competition as well.

Tarring and feathering

Time: 5 - 15 minutes
Equipment: Plastic bin liners
Wallpaper paste
Feathers (talk to a local chicken or turkey farmer, near Christmas or Thanksgiving)
The idea: Dress the victims in the bin liners.
Apply paste to the bin liner
Apply feathers to the paste
Hints: This is very messy! Do it at the start of the evening and have a large bin ready to sweep the debris into.
Stand back if you're alergic to feathers.
Keep your camera ready.

Water Fight

Time: 5 - 30 minutes
Equipment: Water
Empty washing up liquid containers, buckets, water bombs, cheap plastic food bags (the cheaper the better), etc.
The idea: Have a water fight!
Hints: Best done outside on a warm evening.

Litter trail (with a difference)

Time: 60 - 90 minutes
Equipment:1.5kg bag of flour per team
The idea:Send each team out to lay a 'litter trail' of flour, dropping a handful of flour every 10 - 15 paces.
Give them 30 minutes to do this before returning to base.
Swap teams: each team follows another team's trail.
Hints: Send a leader with each team.
If you swap leaders when the teams follow the opposition trails, make sure the leaders are briefed so they know where the trail ends.

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