Scout Leadership Course Session Resources

Session activity

Course Opening: Ice breakers

Resource Type

Ice breaker ideas.

Wrong name Hand out the name badges randomly so everyone has a name that is not their own. Scouts and presenters then mingle to find their own badge and swap with their incorrect one. They must find out three things about the person who's badge they have before returning. Badges are coloured to indicate the Patrol to form into at the end.	Paint a mural An activity to work on teamwork, leadership and task management. You need large sheets of paper, lots of poster paints, newspaper, disposable cups, sticky tape etc. Hand out paper, paints and other materials and tell them to design and paint a mural. Allow clean-up time.
Woggle Make Patrol-coloured turks head woggles. Instructions on the resources disk here.	Pennant You need pieces of cloth such as calico, staves for each Patrol, marking pens of various colours, staple gun and scissors. Give the Patrol a stave, piece of cloth and marking pens and get them to make up a Patrol pennant, flag or banner.
Card scramble An activity to work on teamwork and leadership. You will need five old packs of playing cards. Shuffle the cards and scatter them randomly around the area. The Patrol has to retrieve all the cards and sort them by pack and suit. To make it a bit harder, hide a few cards in unlikely spots. Alternatively remove one card and have the Patrol work out what card is missing.	The scavenger An activity for working on task management and teamwork. You need a list of objects like the one below. Use your imagination. 1. A match box. 2. A tin can. 3. Ash from an outdoor campfire. 4. The phone number of the Region Commissioner 5. A rolling hitch 6. Tracks of a me bird 7. A copy of the Cub Scout Law 8. A picture of the Prime Minister 9. A cup of hot water, boiled over a wood fire 10. A rose coloured piece of paper Set a time limit. The first Patrol to return as a complete Patrol with a complete collection is the winner.