World scouting games

Here is how it goes:. These prisoners have a tag, describing an injury, attached to their shirts. At a signal each of the competitors has to make for a prisoner, give him first aid for his injury and bring him home. The one who reaches camp first with a prisoner properly cared for, wins. This is a very simple game, but if done right, it can be very exciting. You can also adapt it to many different circumstances.

It can be held during a meeting instead of just at camp. You can make it so Scouts have to traverse different obstacles and types of terrain. Depending on how you set it up, each rescue team can either already have the required materials to do the job or they can be required to improvise.

For instance, a broken leg can be splinted with a tree branch and some Scout neckerchiefs, and a stretcher can be fashioned from a couple of Scout staffs and sweaters or jackets. Leaders, or preferably older Scouts, should be the umpires and decide whether the competitors properly cared for the victim.

Some games are great to do just for fun! They can keep things moving during Scout Meetings Scout meetings should never stagnate by sticking to one thing too long! Since then, it has spread to the rest of the Troop. Here is a copy of the game:. Depending on how fast the center man is twirling the rope, this game can be more or less challenging. I weighted the rope with a tightly bound bunch of cloth. Depending on how heavy the weight is, the game can get a little rough.

Nevertheless, this game has become a firm favorite for meetings. Each Scout has a knotting-rope, one end of which is made fast to the beam. Everyone, including the Spider, must keep hold of his own rope. When caught, the flies drop out. This is quite a subtle game. The whole secret, of course, lies in the cunning way in which the spider entangles his own rope with the others, while the flies skip nimbly to and fro to dodge him — and in so doing get their ropes hopelessly entangled.

All it requires is an overhead beam or tree branch, a blindfold, and a series of rope lengths. This game should be kept fast-paced. In the past, the skill of observation was much more heavily emphasized in Scouting than it is now. This is unfortunate, because observation is just as useful if not more so! It is a very simple game which can be played indoors during a meeting. Take a thimble, ring, coin, bit of paper, or any small article, and place it where it is perfectly visible, but in a spot where it is not likely to be noticed.

Let the Patrol come in and look for it. When one of the Scout sees it, he should go and quietly sit down without indicating to the others where it is. After a fair time he should be told to point it out to those who have not succeeded in finding it. Not only can Scouts discover the object by simply looking for it, they can also get clues by observing the other Scouts.

This game also has limitless possibilities for variations. Multiple items can be used; the items can be put in more or less discrete locations; and different rooms can be used. This is just one of many observation games which should be brought back into use by modern Scout Troops. So many people go through life today in their own world without being aware of what is going on around them. So many accidents could be prevented, so much good could be done, if more people practiced and got into the habit of good observation.

I hope you enjoyed reading about these historical Scout games. Try them out in your own Troop! The traditional Scouting program that the Scouts of the past practiced offers many solutions for the same difficulties we face in modern Scouting. Scout Meetings boring? Taking place Every action counts! Scouting, Education for life.

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