Activities

Our group activities at your fingertips — search by age group, how big your group is, the kind of activity you want to do or the topic you want to explore. If you want activities to do at home, check out Dream Big at Home, our home activities site.

Woodchips (5 & under)

Younger Elfins (6-7)

Older Elfins (8-9)

Pioneers (10-12)

Venturers (13-15)

DFs (16-20)

Adult

The Magic Machine

Time: 5-10 mins
Topic: Equality & Inclusion
Location: Inside, Outside

Turn your group into a magic machine to help everyone feel special and happy.

Co-operative Volleyball

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Cooperation
Location: Inside, Outside

Play a ball game and have a discussion with your group about the usefulness or otherwise of rules

Cake!

Time: 40-60 mins
Topic: Peace
Location: Inside

Attempt to make cakes to simulate the unequal distribution of resources and understand how conflicts can develop.

How many Pioneers can you fit on a Pioneer?

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Cooperation
Location: Inside, Outside

Can small teams make it across the space with only one person touching the floor?

Creating an Emblem

Time: 20-40 mins
Topic: Cooperation
Location: Inside, Online

Design a group emblem to represent shared values

Map Symbols

Time: 20-40 mins
Topic: Cooperation, Just for Fun
Location: Inside, Online

See how your group would represent places on a map, then match with the real OS symbols

Creating Contours

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Cooperation, Just for Fun
Location: Inside, Online

Use cardboard to create hills from a map using the contour lines.

Kim's Ingredients

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Fair Trade, International
Location: Inside, Online

Exploring sources of food and the meaning of Fairtrade

What is Fair Trade?

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Fair Trade
Location: Inside, Online

Exploration of the meaning and practice of Fair trade

Vote for your favourite Membership Badge Design for 2023

Time: 1-5 mins
Topic: Cooperation, Democracy, Equality & Inclusion, Identity & Culture, Just for Fun, Justice, Peace
Location: Online

Interpersonal conflict - Discussion

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Cooperation, Democracy
Location: Inside

Facilitate a discussion after doing the interpersonal conflict activities.

Frozen pictures

Time: 10-20 mins
Topic: Cooperation, Democracy
Location: Inside

This activity encourages the venturers to be creative and come up with a role-play and to talk about behaviour and feelings.